{"id":2989,"date":"2012-10-19T06:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T13:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:11:38","slug":"homecoming-for-some-home-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/homecoming-for-some-home-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming for some, home for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

<\/em>Alumni are\u00a0flocking back<\/a>\u00a0to Flagstaff, greeting friends and walking the campus, renewing memories while discovering beautiful new buildings and grounds. The university tradition of Homecoming dates to roughly 1910, when several schools\u2014including my own alma mater, University of Missouri\u2014began inviting alumni to \u201ccome home\u201d to join current students in celebration, with a football game as the highlight.<\/p>\n

Homecoming presents a dilemma of sorts to faculty and staff who did not attend Northern Arizona University. Many of us are deeply attached to the institutions we\u2019ve chosen to work within\u2014the mission, the students, the place and culture that drew us here to stay. But the T-shirts for sale in the bookstore that say NAU Alumni seem off-limits if this is not our\u00a0\u201c<\/em>home\u201d institution.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s even more complicated for those who feel a stronger attachment to their graduate institution than their undergraduate alma mater. And some of us may have undertaken postdoctoral study, or moved once or more among institutions during our careers.<\/p>\n

So which institution commands our strongest loyalty and emotional connection?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m fortunate. Northern Arizona University\u2019s mission and values reflect those of the institutions in which I was educated\u2014public schools offering diverse, high-quality opportunities to all, including first-generation students. And the relationships among NAU, Flagstaff and the spectacular Colorado Plateau \u201cfeel\u201d much like the town-gown-regional connections of Cornell University, where I did my graduate study in Ithaca and the Finger Lakes landscape of New York. So I know I\u2019ve come home, even if I can\u2019t claim to be an alumna.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of you Lumberjacks who have chosen to devote your efforts to this institution\u2014I hope to see you at the football game tomorrow!<\/p>\n

\"Band<\/p>\n

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