{"id":16899,"date":"2013-04-19T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=16899"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:16:32","slug":"spring-stress-and-this-weeks-sobering-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spring-stress-and-this-weeks-sobering-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring stress and this week\u2019s sobering reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 by Laura Huenneke, Provost<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We welcome signs of spring, but late spring semester also seems to bring with it plenty of stress.\u00a0Students and faculty alike are pushing to complete the academic year. Between unfinished projects and the packed calendar of academic celebrations and recognition events, many of us feel there simply aren\u2019t enough hours in the week (or enough weeks left in the academic year).<\/p>\n<p>This week, it is especially difficult to write about \u201cnormal\u201d university happenings.\u00a0The bombings at Monday\u2019s Boston Marathon were grievous interruptions of an event many of us have experienced or at least imagined.\u00a0And as I write this, most of the Boston metropolitan area is on lockdown in the search for the second of two suspects in those bombings; a police officer at MIT has been killed and the many colleges and universities in the area moved swiftly to inform and protect their campus communities.<\/p>\n<p>Our Flagstaff campus community, like any other, must pay attention to today\u2019s realities and think about the unthinkable.\u00a0Over this past year the university has revised its <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/police\/WeaponsPolicywRequest.pdf\">campus weapons policy<\/a> and hired a new emergency management director\u2014welcome, Marc Burdiss.<\/p>\n<p>The NAU Police Department has developed a fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/www4.nau.edu\/police\/Community_Relations.htm\">outreach program<\/a> for students and employees. I\u2019ve done my best this year to put NAUPD and other resources in front of our deans and other academic leaders, and encouraged them to share with colleagues, so that faculty and staff are better prepared to respond or to help others in our community respond to potential disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>How visible have these resources been for you?\u00a0How do you suggest the university best manage its responsibility to keep the campus community safe and resilient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spring-stress-and-this-weeks-sobering-reality\/\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 by Laura Huenneke, Provost We welcome signs of spring, but late spring semester also seems to bring with it plenty of stress.\u00a0Students and faculty alike are pushing to complete the academic year. Between unfinished projects and the packed calendar of academic celebrations and recognition events, many of us feel there&hellip;<\/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":[269,70,270,268,24],"class_list":["post-16899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau","tag-campus-safety","tag-laura-huenneke","tag-marc-burdiss","tag-nau-police-department","tag-northern-arizona-university"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899","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=16899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16899\/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=16899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}