Kartchner Caverns a boon to tourists, shops
For the state parks system, Kartchner Caverns is a source of income that helps offset budget cuts.
“The funds we bring at Katchner are crucial,” said Ellen Bilbrey, public information officer for Arizona State Parks.
“That supports the rest of the state park system as well.” “State parks are economic engines for rural areas,” she said.
“All national and state parks are that way.” In fact, a report from Northern Arizona University's Arizona
Hospitality Research & Resource Center found that per person spending by people who visit state parks is about $70 per day.
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Seasonal hiring in education helps state unemployment rate remain steady
Weather contributes to the cyclical nature of the construction industry
and could be a reason for recent fluctuations, said Marc Chopin,
dean of Northern Arizona University's W.A. Franke College of Business.
But he said he doesn't anticipate a steady increase in any job sector
for quite some time. “I expect that we have largely bottomed off, but
how long it will remain that way is the question,” he said. “It could
get better and it could get worse.”
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Legislators expected to tighten school-tuition tax-credit rules
Lawrence Mohrweis, an accounting professor
at Northern Arizona University who also oversees a tuition organization in Flagstaff,
said school-tuition organizations should register with the state and have annual
audits or financial reviews, depending on how much money they handle. He also urged
lawmakers to give the Department of Revenue some oversight authority.
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Users Want Answers on Oracle-Sun Future
Richard Toeniskoetter,
technology director at the W.A. Franke College of Business at Northern
Arizona University in Flagstaff, said he wants to know Oracle's plans
for Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software and its Sun Ray thin
clients. "We are already running a fairly mature VDI model, and we just
want to see Oracle recognize that it's a viable platform," Toeniskoetter
said, adding that NAU is also interested in Oracle's plans for MySQL.
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Arbitration panel to hear Aviara dispute
While disputes between hotel owners and operators are not uncommon, especially in
an economic downturn that has taken its toll on luxury lodging, such quarrels are
rarely so public, some analysts say. “Ideally, these disputes get dealt with in a
quiet and respectful manner, but this case is hardly civil, and therefore the
level of publicity is not a win-win but a lose-lose,” said Gary Vallen,
a hospitality consultant and professor at Northern Arizona University's School of Hotel and Restaurant Management.
“I don't see Four Seasons nor the owner of Aviara coming out in good standing from a public opinion standpoint.”
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American Pacific Mourns the Loss of Board Director Norval F. Pohl, PhD
Norval Pohl was born and raised in Turlock, California, between Modesto and Merced,
in the heart of California's central San Joaquin valley. Although his bachelor's
degree was in psychology at California State University-Fresno, he returned from
college to work the farm where he was raised with his brother. He returned to graduate
school at Fresno State University and later earned his PhD in quantitative systems at
Arizona State University. He taught at the University of California-Santa Clara and
became Dean of the College of Business Administration at Northern Arizona University
in 1981. In 1986 he moved to Las Vegas and began his career at UNLV. He left Las Vegas
in 1998 to become Executive Vice President and later President of University of North
Texas in Denton, Texas. Dr. Pohl joined Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2007.
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Community Colleges in Tucson, AZ
Located on 50 acres off North Shannon Road in northwest Tucson, PCC Northwest
provides general education courses and associate's degrees in Hotel Management
and Restaurant and Therapeutic Massage. People who wish to earn bachelor's
degrees in Hotel and Restaurant Management because of a
partnership with Northern Arizona University. They can either continue to take classes on this
campus or transfer to NAU to continue their studies. In partnership with the YMCA next to the
campus and Pima County, students have access to fitness, recreational, and dance classes.
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State's fiscal alternatives examined
Ronald Gunderson, professor of economics at NAU,
served on the Fiscal Alternative Choices Team, or FACT. The team of experts on state-local
finance from Arizona's universities and the Arizona Board of Regents addressed both the
short-term deficit and also long-term structural issues. FACT recently presented its 16
budget-balancing options to Gov. Jan Brewer and state legislators. Tracie Hansen of the
NAU Office of Public Affairs asked Gunderson to highlight some of the ideas the task
force generated.
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Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 3 Released
I am really impressed with Sun VDI Software 3," said Richard Toeniskoetter,
technology director of NAU's W. A. Franke College of Business.
"The open architecture will provide us with a broad choice of client
device, virtualization host and virtual desktop OS. That's really
important to us at NAU because flexible access to Windows and Unix
desktops, some of which have been in production for over seven years,
maximizes our IT utilization and simplifies our management." The
university reports that all of the Sun equipment purchased since
2002 is still in production.
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Economy Series, Day 4: Economic outlook for 2009 similar to last year
Ronald Gunderson, professor of economics at Northern Arizona University,
believes the state's economy is going to crawl along the bottom for some time.
"I don't really expect a turnaround in 2009," he said. Gunderson says a turnaround
is more likely next year and beyond before things pick up at a clip people want to
see. "I think it has been certainly the deepest recession probably in Arizona history," he said.
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By the students, for the students
When members of the Chain Gang, one of the oldest service clubs on campus,
knocked on her office door Wednesday at NAU's W.A. Franke College of Business,
Professor Beverly Amerhad no idea what they wanted.
They asked her to come out into the hallway and presented her with a scroll which "tapped"
her as the 2008 Homecoming Dedicatee, recognizing her for her well-organized teaching style
and very caring attitude toward students. "It was a complete surprise," said Amer, who has
been teaching computer and management information systems and accounting at NAU for 15 years.
"This is the highest honor a faculty member can receive, because it's from the students."
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ASU offers degree in business sustainability
ASU's interdisciplinary degree reflects a green trend among business schools. The University of Arizona's
Eller College of Management is preparing a curriculum to add green business
principles to its MBA degree, and Northern Arizona University and the
Thunderbird School of Global Management make sustainability part of
business studies. Northern Arizona University's W. A. Franke College of Businessoffers two courses
dealing entirely with environmental subjects and five others with environmental components.
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Northern Arizona University students help design, market mini-keg
Karl Schultz and Trenton Moeller, both mechanical engineering majors at NAU, spent the last few
months perfecting a mini-keg that is at home in your refrigerator or under a bar. David Chana,
a marketing major at NAU, looked into how to sell it. One of the biggest hurdles
from an engineering perspective was that the keg itself rests on its side, said Schultz.
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Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico Construction Notes
Northern Arizona University is home to the greenest building in Arizona and one of the
three greenest in the world after receiving a LEED "Platinum" rating for its new Applied
Research and Development Building. The ARD Building earned 60 points out of a possible
69 from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design building rating system from
the U.S. Green Building Council. Only two other buildings in the world have earned at
least 60 points. The designation comes shortly after the university earned "Gold" ratings
for buildings that house Engineering and The W.A. Franke College of Business
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State-park cash crunch threatens links to past
The Arizona State Parks system is suffering a midlife crisis. The 50-year-old system is showing the
signs of age that only money can fix. Budget shortfalls have meant that funds designated for repairs
have gone instead to operating costs. Arizona parks pumped nearly $200 million into the state's economy
in 2001, according to a 2002 study by the Arizona Hospitality Research & Resource Center
at Northern Arizona University, the most recent data available. Visitation has steadily increased
with 2.3 million visitors in fiscal year 2007. As more people have discovered the parks, the cost
to operate the facilities has increased. For example, utility costs have soared along with the cost of maintenance.
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New era checks in for hotel school
As the Inn at Northern Arizona University closes its doors June 30, the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management
will open several doors to a whole new future. Since the 1980s, the Inn has been used by HRM students and faculty as a learning facility where HRM students
experience firsthand how hotel and restaurants operate. As part of the HRM requirements, students must work
a minimum of 800 hours at any hospitality establishment in order to graduate. Beginning this fall, students
will work at the newly constructed Drury Hotel and High Country Conference Center, located on the corner of
Milton Road and Butler Avenue, rather than the Inn.
Arizona Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ) - 01/16/2008 | View Clip
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