{"id":2789,"date":"2012-02-17T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2012-11-08T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T21:34:08","slug":"liz-grobsmith-to-leave-role-of-provost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/liz-grobsmith-to-leave-role-of-provost\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Grobsmith to leave role of provost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liz Grobsmith<\/strong>, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Northern Arizona University, has announced that she will step down when her current appointment ends on June 30. She plans to remain with the university in another capacity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 10 years as provost, I feel it\u2019s time for me to move on to new challenges,\u201d Grobsmith said, citing accomplishments in growing NAU\u2019s international initiative and developing the university college, which is focused on retaining first-year students. \u201cAt this stage of my career I\u2019m excited to serve the univeristy in a new role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grobsmith said she intends to work with NAU President\u00a0John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0to hone the details of a transition plan and clarify her ongoing role with the university.<\/p>\n

Haeger said he will decide about a successor in the near future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe academic community at NAU is grateful for all that Liz has accomplished,\u201d Haeger said. \u201cWe have made great strides in the past decade and I\u2019m confident that NAU has enough talent internally to continue to move the academic division forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grobsmith came to NAU from Utah State University in 2002, where she was the dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Prior to that, she was dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in music from The Ohio State University and master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in anthropology from the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n

At NAU, Grobsmith doubled the international student population and established academic ties with China that annually produce graduates who have studied in China and at NAU. She also oversaw a steady increase in programs aimed at undergraduate student success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liz Grobsmith, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Northern Arizona University, has announced that she will step down when her current appointment ends on June 30. She plans to remain with the university in another capacity. \u201cAfter 10 years as provost, I feel it\u2019s time for me to move on to new challenges,\u201d…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","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=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}