{"id":34734,"date":"2015-02-04T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=34734"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T18:07:57","slug":"huenneke-returns-to-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/huenneke-returns-to-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost to return to research, teaching; president to launch nationwide search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After serving Northern Arizona University for 12 years in various administrative positions, including as provost since 2012,\u00a0<strong>Laura Huenneke<\/strong>\u00a0is stepping away from her current position on July 1. She will return to research and teaching at NAU, concentrating on biology and ecology.<\/p>\n<p>President<strong>\u00a0Rita Cheng<\/strong>\u00a0plans within the next few weeks to launch a nationwide search for a permanent replacement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been something I\u2019ve been thinking about a long time,\u201d Huenneke said. \u201cI agreed to help with the new president\u2019s transition and then move to what I love doing most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheng expressed support for Huenneke\u2019s decision to return to what brought her to higher education in the first place. \u201cWhen she speaks about her research you can see this energy, a spark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The provost also carries the title of vice president for Academic Affairs and collaborates with the president in setting the university\u2019s academic path. \u201cThe position is critical to NAU\u2019s success,\u201d Cheng said. \u201cOur faculty look to the provost for vision and leadership, and students benefit directly from strategies implemented by that office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added that she is pleased Huenneke is remaining at NAU. \u201cI am confident she will continue to contribute to the success of the university,\u201d Cheng said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/huenneke-returns-to-research\/\">After serving Northern Arizona University for 12 years in various administrative positions, including as provost since 2012,\u00a0Laura Huenneke\u00a0is stepping away from her current position on July 1. She will return to research and teaching at NAU, concentrating on biology and ecology. President\u00a0Rita Cheng\u00a0plans within the next few weeks to launch a nationwide search for a&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":34742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734","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=34734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}