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NAU professor asks Indigenous Commission to advise student projects on accessibility and representation
Summary
Northern Arizona University professor Taylor Thompson outlined a fall-spring course that will have students research local representation and accessibility issues and asked the commission to be a possible community partner for spring project proposals and presentations.
Taylor Thompson, an English professor at Northern Arizona University, presented the university’s "Rhetoric of Space" curriculum and asked the Flagstaff Indigenous Commission to consider serving as a community partner for student projects in spring 2026.
Thompson described a two-semester sequence: in fall students research representation and accessibility issues on the NAU campus; in spring the work expands to the Flagstaff community with students conducting field observations, stakeholder analysis and proposals. "My goal is for them to become more connected to the university around them," Thompson said, explaining that students will develop proposals that…
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