{"id":10183,"date":"2013-01-18T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:17:50","slug":"what-do-we-do-when-the-growth-machine-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/what-do-we-do-when-the-growth-machine-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"What do we do when the growth machine stops?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Laura Huenneke, Provost and Vice President
\n<\/em>for Academic Affairs<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently I\u2019ve seen a new awareness, even in Arizona, that we can\u2019t count on continued growth to solve our problems or fund our priorities in higher education. Nationally, there\u2019s plenty of public discussion<\/a> about the need to slow growth in the costs of college.<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s recognition that the basic element of demand for higher education\u2013numbers of potential students\u2013may cease growing. In Arizona, we can\u2019t count on demographics<\/a> furnishing us with increased student numbers. It seems we have already peaked in high school graduate numbers for the coming decade or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s talk:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Next week I\u2019ll be at the south campus Starbucks (at the Suites) at 4 p.m., Friday Jan. 25, hoping to visit with a few of you. See you there.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Institutions in other states, where high school graduates are already decreasing, are competing for \u201cour\u201d students. And the rapid advance of technology, which provides less-expensive options, is producing a grim assessment<\/a> of the competition faced by traditional higher education.<\/p>\n

For me this reinforces the importance of appealing to non-traditional student audiences, such as those we expect to pursue our new Personalized Learning degrees.<\/p>\n

Moreover, it\u2019s crucial to keep a careful eye on the value and quality of our \u201cbrand\u201d\u2013the degrees and student experience that differentiate NAU from the competition.<\/p>\n

Finally, it\u2019s clear we cannot always count on increased or growing revenues. It\u2019s a tremendous challenge to move to stability rather than incessant economic growth, even to those of us focused on sustainability. In the future, how will we find the resources to put into improvements and new priorities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Laura Huenneke, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Recently I\u2019ve seen a new awareness, even in Arizona, that we can\u2019t count on continued growth to solve our problems or fund our priorities in higher education. Nationally, there\u2019s plenty of public discussion about the need to slow growth in the costs of college. Now…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[102,70,104,24,103],"class_list":["post-10183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau","tag-college-costs","tag-laura-huenneke","tag-non-traditional-students","tag-northern-arizona-university","tag-student-demographics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}