{"id":10784,"date":"2013-01-24T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=10784"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:13:42","slug":"10-reasons-why-the-campus-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/10-reasons-why-the-campus-is-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"10 reasons why the campus is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 By John D. Haeger, President <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Recent discussions about tech-inspired disruptions to traditional higher education have prompted me to consider what motivates students to pursue a university education in what is increasingly regarded as the old-fashioned way: on campus.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to think that all the motivations are well-intended and based on sound information\u2014that these students seek to improve their prospects for achieving fulfilling careers and lives as active citizens, and that they think attending a university in person is the best way to reach their goals.<\/p>\n<p>There continues to be ample evidence that students are correct in their assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 10 reasons why the traditional on-campus college experience isn\u2019t going away any time soon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>College can be a place of discovery, and often what is discovered points a student to an outcome that previously would not have even been considered. Much of that discovery comes from interactions and experiences that can occur only through personal experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The idea of attending a four-year college or university is deeply engrained in our culture as a rite of passage on the path to opportunity. Students (and parents) are willing, even eager, to pay the going rate to participate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Technology cannot completely duplicate the dynamics of the faculty-student interaction that takes place in person. The power and potential of meaningful, one-on-one academic relationships cannot be denied.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Social media demonstrates that we value community and connection, or at least the feeling of connectedness. Actually being on campus is a way to feel connected to something bigger than the individual, and to feel part of a special community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Knowledge can be distributed but infrastructure, for the most part, cannot. Particularly in the sciences and engineering, the laboratories and equipment required to deliver a high-quality education must be assembled and maintained by an entity that can afford them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A spirit of knowledge truly can pervade a physical location. There\u2019s something about a concentration of educated people, educational resources and willing learners. Those who have spent much time on a college campus can tell you that the feeling is palpable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Diversity is a powerful force. A college campus, by its very nature, draws students from a wide variety of cultural, ethnic and economic backgrounds. Such diversity can be a multiplier when it comes to expanding one\u2019s perspectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Civic engagement, even in our online world, still requires personal interactions, which makes campus an excellent place to lay the groundwork for a thriving democracy. A campus is an ideal environment in which to germinate the seeds of volunteerism, activism and participation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A campus remains a centrally located cache of talent. Yes, we all know the stories of recent graduates and their employment challenges, but employers still turn to campuses to recruit new talent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Much of the nation\u2019s scientific research is pursued at colleges and universities\u2014bolstered by federal and private spending\u2014and at a time when American competitiveness in the global economy faces growing challenges, centers of research and development become more crucial than ever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s note: The above blog first appeared in the\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/john-d-haeger\/10-reasons-why-the-campus_b_2498354.html\">Huffington Post<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/a><i>on Jan. 17, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/10-reasons-why-the-campus-is-here-to-stay\/\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 By John D. Haeger, President Recent discussions about tech-inspired disruptions to traditional higher education have prompted me to consider what motivates students to pursue a university education in what is increasingly regarded as the old-fashioned way: on campus. I\u2019d like to think that all the motivations are well-intended and based&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[118,115,114,41,24,117,116],"class_list":["post-10784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau","tag-campus-community-2","tag-civic-engagement","tag-diversity","tag-john-haeger","tag-northern-arizona-university","tag-research-infrastructure","tag-university-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784","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=10784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}