{"id":1588,"date":"2012-09-21T15:13:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T22:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:12:05","slug":"land-grant-or-not-nau-has-deep-roots-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/land-grant-or-not-nau-has-deep-roots-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Land-grant or not, NAU has deep roots in the region"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/em>This past summer, I attended a meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in Washington, D.C., that focused on the sesquicentennial of the Morrill Act. That\u2019s the federal legislation that created the land-grant system for supporting public institutions of higher education and research.<\/p>\n

Of course, Northern Arizona University isn\u2019t actually a land-grant institution\u2014that honor goes to the University of Arizona\u2014but in fact we take great satisfaction in the deep connections to our region and the Colorado Plateau generally.<\/p>\n

The region\u2019s natural and cultural environments are the source of much of our research and our teaching. We regularly host the Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau; we have a thriving system of physical sites and online degree programs serving students all over the state; and our institutional strategic plan highlights commitment to community vitality, engagement, and partnerships (including special attention to neighboring tribal communities and cultures).<\/p>\n

These deep roots in our community are part of what I value so much about this institution. It\u2019s an increasing struggle, though, to maintain the public service and external engagement parts of our mission, especially as state support for our activities shrinks and tuition must bear more of the burden. Part of the challenge of the years ahead is to preserve our unique cultural and community values while competing on an increasingly global and technology-linked stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Laura Huenneke, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs This past summer, I attended a meeting of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in Washington, D.C., that focused on the sesquicentennial of the Morrill Act. That\u2019s the federal legislation that created the land-grant system for supporting public institutions of higher education and research.…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}