Officials said 77 NAU students will be affected by the university’s closure of four satellite campuses in Globe, Holbrook, Payson and Nogales. The West Valley campus in Avondale will relocate to offices at South Mountain Community College.

The closures come in response to more than $21 million in state funding cuts to the university, according to a press release.

NAU spokeswoman Lisa Nelson said the students enrolled at the four campuses will instead take online courses offered by the university.

“The satellite campuses are very low enrollment sites,” Nelson said. “The students enrolled there will be able to take courses online.”

The campuses are known as “distance-learning sites,” where students enrolled in distance-learning classes, either online or through videoconferencing, could periodically meet with advisers from NAU, Nelson said. She added that no staff would be eliminated as a result of the closures.

“[There was] no staff on the ground at those four sites,” Nelson wrote in an e-mail. “Distance learning had staff travel either once a week or once every two weeks to those sites.”

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