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To the Peoria special council meeting. The next item on the agenda is the study session.

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And the topic for tonight's discussion is Huntington University Update.

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So Mr. Swenson.

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Thank you, Mayor Karellant. And as council knows, we have been working with Huntington University for some time

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to create a branch campus and a presence in the city of Peoria. And what we are doing this evening is getting an update on all that.

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So I'll turn it over to Scott White, our economic development services director, and he will make some presentation and also some introductions.

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Great.

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In evaluating the Peoria market, the Peoria opportunity for establishing a branch campus here in Peoria.

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And the signature programs that they would look to bring to Peoria.

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So, I'd like to introduce Jeff Bergen, who is an official with Huntington University, a recent

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relocate into the Mesquite District from Indiana, who is going to give the presentation in

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terms of the proposal that Huntington University is considering.

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But what I wanted to do first was just kind of set some context as you may recall in the fall

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of 2010, the city adopted the economic development implementation strategy.

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And some of the key provisions within that document was the attraction of targeted industries

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generally, specifically institutions of higher education, because it was believed that

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that absolutely enriches a community in terms of programming, that higher institutions of

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higher education can offer to a community, but also it adds significantly to business attraction

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pursuits.

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So to that end, we've been working with private higher education recruiter, as well as efforts

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through the economic development services department, and that is what is yield that is

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trying University and now Huntington University.

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So this is part of implementing the EDIS, and our initial contact with Huntington University

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goes back to actually the fall of 2012.

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So during that period of time, there's been a lot of discussions, a lot of evaluation, a lot of different sites that have been looked at, a lot of different models that have been contemplated and subsequently modified.

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All with the objective of getting to the most efficient and effective execution that Huntington University can look at bringing Tupioria and the programs that will be offered as being those that are not replicated elsewhere in the valleys.

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So we have some real niche opportunities to bring the various types of programs and degrees that

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Huntington University is going to share with you tonight.

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So with that, I'd like to turn it over to Jeff, who's going to walk through a presentation

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for us.

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That sounds great.

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Thank you, Scott.

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Thank you, Council for the opportunity to give you folks an update.

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Scott said this has really been two and a half years in the making to get the point where

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we can come and have some good information to give us on very, very excited to be able to

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to do that.

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I want to just quickly introduce a couple of folks who are here sort of with me in conjunction

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with this project and we'll be mentioned time during the presentation but thought of

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a good to acknowledge them and they would obviously be available for questions if the council

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has any after the fact.

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So we'll turn here, even waiting with me so that's to have to give them some props.

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I will be first the Charles Car.

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Charles is the owner developer of the property that we're looking at in Pioria.

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many of you know Charles. Matthew Earl Jones, Matthew's a connection we've had it's very exciting.

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Matthew is the founder of the Earl Jones Institute for Film and Television. The family name

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should sound familiar to you as father's Ralph Earl Jones and brothers James Earl Jones. So Matthew's

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a great connection for us. Then Remingtoner, Remingtoner, Remingtoner, Remingtoner, we'll have you stand up.

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Portfolio manager from Bioinspire. And so they are all so representative of the collaborators

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that we've been kind of lining up as we've been, so we've been putting our two and a half years

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to get used. That's what we hope anyway. Scott mentioned also. It's great to be here as a

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resident of Pioria. We bought a house in Vastancia. We moved here in Vittal, July, so we did pay our

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dues. My daughter is a freshman at Liberty High School. We attend new life community church here in Pioria.

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I work out at the Rio Vista. I just spent a lovely Valentine's Day with my wife at Dillon's

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on the Scorpion Bay, which then necessitated more workouts at Rio Vista, and so we're

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excited to be part of here and I have about five different ways to get to 101 for my house

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all of which seem to take about the same amount of time. So I'm settling into the Peoria mode pretty

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quickly. I also have been connected with the University for 22 years, serving as Vice President

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Rowan Management and Marketing up to this point, and now I get to be in the role of being the lead

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person for the opportunity here in Pioria. So it's been exciting to kind of the transition

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and looking forward to what's in store, what's possible here in the Pioria area. So strong

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connection to the university. Huntington University is a school founded in 1897, so almost 120 years

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of history. The university is a not-for-profit, private, liberal arts college, Christian college,

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crisis entered in nature and has over 70 different academic programs.

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I want to clarify that the University is connected with the Church of the United

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Brethren and Christ, but it is a educational institution, not a church, so we have always

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in our history welcomed people of all faiths or no faith.

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So it's part of our mission, but it has never been a deterrent in terms of attending the

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university.

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It's a good thing to clarify.

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I, Huntington University is fully accredited, nationally recognized.

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We are ranked by U.S. News and we'll report as one of the top 10 percent of the colleges

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of baccalaureate colleges in the Midwest, Forbes ranks us as one of the top 10 percent

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of all colleges and universities in the country and then Princeton Review is ranked

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us as one of the best in the Midwest and we're also victory media, also has us as a military

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friendly school.

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So when we looked at coming out here, we're bringing a lot of history and hopefully

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of positive reputation we think, and that's what's kind of exciting with the partnership with

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Pioria.

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I want to think I have my cool little excellent.

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So Scott alluded a little bit in terms of the pathway.

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We're looking at launching our program in digital media arts as a lead program here in the city

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of Pioria.

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We first started talking to Scott, actually it was our nursing program, and now light

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health that was kind of the start of the conversation, but as we have spent more time here

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talking with folks, digital midiarts has kind of risen to the top for reasons that hopefully

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will be made clear throughout the presentation.

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What is digital midiarts?

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That's a good question.

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It's going to be better answered by a seven and a half minute video that you folks will

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receive as a follow up from Scott on a flash drive.

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It's our student, our student work kind of telling about the program they did that last year.

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So we far more entertaining than myself, but in the interest of time I'll give you the

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truncated version, and then hopefully you have a chance to follow it up later on with a far

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more compelling video.

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Digital New Arts is really a new umbrella to pull together a number of the different

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beatings that have been out there in the past.

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You can think of broadcasting, radio TV broadcasting is certainly part of that.

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We call that Fusion Media now.

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It's a different toolbox.

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It's students need to function in the broadcast world.

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But Digital New Arts also includes film production, digital animation,

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graphic design, and so it's a umbrella that encompasses all of those disciplines that's

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a exciting problem for us. It is quite literally the fastest growing major in the

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University and one that we have a national international reputation. So it's been exciting

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and launched in 2005. Head of our broadcast department was over radio and TV, but he has his

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in films.

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So it's always been an area of interest for him.

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He saw some things coming in the world of Disney Arts,

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so decided to build from a ground up a film program

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and animation program to bracket our current broadcasting program.

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So we did the film side of things.

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It's not just cobbled together,

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it actually is a literally from the ground up film program.

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The animation.

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We went out and hired two guys from Veggie Tales

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and off interview watched Veggie Tales

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or we'll admit to watch them over your kid's shoulder over the years.

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But we have two animators from those folks who came in from that industry who came and started the program at Huntington.

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So it's been intentional to be a high quality program focused on those areas for quite some time.

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The key element is not only learning the software, but also to help people learn how to tell their story.

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And every organization, every business, every enterprise has a story that needs to be told.

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Like many people say it's not the story that matters, not your stuff.

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we're looking forward to bringing that to Peoria.

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The poster you see there is one of our initial projects

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that two students did that was a classic sort of a 45-minute

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movie that was done in kind of classic Black and White.

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One of the two lead people behind that project

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has now graduated and has actually a writer and producer

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on the mini show on network television.

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So we have some graduates who've gone and are doing

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starting to make an impact in the national industry

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or in the local industry.

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Why digital media arts?

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Why would we bring that to Pioria?

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Has a national draw?

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It's a largest academic program in the university.

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And even though the initial focus of DMA

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will be to serve the city of Pioria, the West Valley,

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we think that digital media arts is unique enough

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that it will attract students from throughout Arizona

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to Pioria, and actually will serve regional audiences

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that are underserved for education options

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in the region, including California.

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It's a STEM discipline that can impact all businesses

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and community organizations.

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So it fits well with some of the efforts

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that Scott and his team have been doing

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in regards to attracting STEM businesses.

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And you might be interested,

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we'll refer to this a little bit later,

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but some of our graduates,

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not only are talented enough to produce art,

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like you see there,

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but have gone into a number of different fields,

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many which into the biomedical device field.

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So we'll talk more,

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But it's not just film, film, in the industry.

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There are a lot of applications for digital arts

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and a number of different areas.

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And the faculty in that area, certainly,

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personified that, in addition to the vegetals work,

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are faculty of our professionals who've gone and worked

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for everything from Microsoft, the Tendo, Disney,

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Harley Davidson, it's a long stretch from Harley Davidson

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to vegetals.

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But these guys can get that done.

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So it connects to a lot of different things

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that are going on.

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And again, why digital arts?

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the demand for DMA graduates is high and growing.

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The figures you see in front of you are from occupation net, or O-Net,

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which is sort of a go-to place to find out what's happening in the workforce nationally.

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Carson Hall, who's on Scott's staff, we have O-Net conversations from time to time.

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It gives you a sense of what the trends are in that area.

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These are numbers that I just went in as typed in,

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that if you type in digital media into the O-Net,

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377 occupational careers emerge and not just jobs, these are careers.

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Digital mid-arts, 454 careers.

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Digital media technology, 525 occupational careers.

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It just shows the fact that every industry now has a need for some element of digital

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mid-arts.

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And the salaries range anywhere from mid-forties all the way up to $100,000.

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So, I know where you plug in.

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It's not just minimal wage work.

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There are some opportunities to make some pretty pretty significant impact and we have graduates who have gone on to not only the midi project, biggest loser America's got talent

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Working on the TV series the dome short lived as it were, but also a number of different industries in Los Angeles

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locally and then also with the

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with people then

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model have been doing artists

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for an animators for a lot of folks connected to the biomedical industry for

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or automotive, a lot of industries have use and need for digital media technology.

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Why digital media arts in Arizona?

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So we're narrowing down here to Peoria.

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There really is a lack of higher education training for digital media arts in the state of

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Arizona.

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You have community colleges, six of which have some type of digital media arts, graphic design

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or film component.

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You can go to ASCUS CRONKITE School, Journalism Masked Communication, which is an excellent

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program nationally recognized, they do journalism and mass communication.

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What they don't do is animation, film, graphic design.

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There's an opportunity here.

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One of the things that's unique about Huntington's programs is Mary's film and animation

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together.

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And so that gives us a little bit of a category distinctive, and that's part of the reason

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why we have a national draw in that program.

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And then you have the for-profit institutions, the University of the Vancing Technology,

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state, although they tend to be a little bit of a higher price to option.

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We'd like to give students another another possibility.

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The image you see here is one of Jim Moore, who's a videographer for Duck Dynasty.

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You don't have to raise your hand if you're a Duck Dynasty fan or not.

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But it's an example of how our students have been working hand-in-hand with industry professionals

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on the home campus.

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We are very excited that that theme will continue with our campus here in Piora.

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Again, why do you think we are in Arizona?

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there's a target audience that exists that is a pretty pretty impressive. Arizona has a well-designed training program for students through the career and technical education program. The community colleges obviously are target audience.

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I should move back to that real quickly. The schools I mentioned, we're not looking to compete with community colleges. We're going to collaborate with those folks and be a pipeline for students who get their two year degrees.

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come to Peoria, come to Huntington to be able to complete their bachelor's degree, so we're

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going to be a degree completed for programs that are already in place in Arizona, but also

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we'll have an opportunity to talk to students right out of high school. The career and technical

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education program in the state is pretty impressive. In the Midwest, where we're from Indiana,

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Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, you don't find it a sort of an orchestrated and well organized program

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students learn media in a high school setting. You'll have a hotbed here and there

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where you have a teacher who has connections and has a vision, but Arizona has a

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growing their own digital media.

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15,000 students graduate with media experience every year in the state of Arizona through the CTE program. In fact, I have a

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mailer here that I just got a couple weeks ago that handy visual aid that showed up to me from pure unified school district, and one of the programs,

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commocation information systems and media productions, is a big piece of that. Students get out and don't have a lot of options in that area to continue their education.

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Also, we have, there's 20,000 graduates with some level visual arts experience, because we have graphic design and digital animation as part of that, we think we'll be in a tract of option for those students also.

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So there's a group of folks that we can go to and talk to about the opportunities that are, would exist at Huntington University in Pioria.

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A great example is right here in Piora Unified School District has an excellent media program.

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Piora Student Broadcasting Network is one that we've been able to be connected with and

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been talking to the PUSD almost since the first visit here.

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We met with Dr. Santa Rally, then it's spending time with Mike Siewardson and out of liberty

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with Rick Johnson and Brian Yoder.

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An excellent program.

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My daughter is a great example of someone who will be in media next year and also in art.

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So, she's straddling both those fields and frankly, she had no chance because my oldest daughter

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just graduated from Huntington in a DMA major in film production, my wife's abroad casting

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has a degree in broadcasting. I've degrees in broadcasting business and publications. My dad had

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a degree in broadcasting. So, unfortunately, the gene pool, she was sucked in. So, my our kids are sort

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a bot into the program, but nothing exists out there, it's consistent, like the PSVN.

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Talking to Mike and other folks, there may be as many as a thousand students in PSVN next

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year.

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So this gives, I need to know, unique opportunity with Digital Media Arts to go ahead

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and create a pipeline, partner with PUSD in some pretty neat ways.

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We're talking about the idea of maybe dual credit, not just in general study areas, but

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actually in Digital Media Arts.

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So the kids who are studying media in the high school have an opportunity to go ahead and

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get a head start in that area while they're still in high school.

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And those credits will obviously be transferable to where they want to go.

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But we think having a high quality, nationally known program, in the city, will be attractive

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to a lot of students who want to continue their digital media arcs education right here in

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So you see we have a letter of support from PUSD, a couple of excerpts of that on the screen.

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There, we just think there's a lot of potential, and so it's exciting for us to bring a program to a city that's already doing some pretty cutting edge stuff in that area.

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We'll also be able to do some institutes for training teachers who are in teach media, not only in Pioria, but also in the West Valley and potentially across the state.

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So we see an opportunity to not only bring people to Pioria, create some revenue for the university, but also serve the educational community in that sense.

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location of the Huntington Mercy Campus. Part of the Arrowhead Innovation Campus, some of you

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know that is the Arrowhead Business Park. You can see we're located right on Kelton Lane,

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the property that Charles has owned, and he will say he planned this out to kind of hold

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on to the right option came on, and we were connected to that facility through Scott. Scott

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had been talking to Charles Car and also the Dave Cornelius who

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will introduce you to in just a minute via the PowerPoint about a vision

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they had for this facility.

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we thought there's a lot of upside to this.

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If you think about the location, we just

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talked about pur unified school district.

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This is almost centrally located where

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students from almost any high school could access it in a fairly

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short distance, which given the shape of the city of Peoria

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is not something you can speak about, and for a lot of opportunities, so that is a great

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upside.

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We have automobile dealerships all around us as potential clients for our digital market

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services.

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We also have the opportunity to have students, access, not only things within walk-in-distance,

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but actually to hop over for lunch, and that type of thing at the P83 project, and perhaps

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even be part of a shuttle service that if there's a shuttle service that develops for the

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Some of the dealerships have been swing through campus.

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Students can hop on, spend an hour or get lunch, come back.

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So we see a lot of ups, I did that.

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Plus you can kind of tell people where it is.

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Everybody has a general idea where the campus is located.

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So we're very excited about that.

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We think we can leverage some areas where the city is already

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invested that could be a good upside.

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The other thing that is an option is for industry professionals

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that come in rent space at Arrowhead.

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We think this we could be a tractor to the digital yards industry.

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And unlike other studios in the state, being located here is great for those folks, around hotels, around restaurants.

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So there's a lot of upside that we think can help stimulate that industry here in the city of Peoria.

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Sure, a couple of quick questions.

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Photos.

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This is the main entrance right now, and if you've driven by this is what you would see at this point.

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As we look ahead to the future, this is what we see would be the entrance to the university.

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has a nice campus sort of a feel to it, and frankly, using the existing

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facades will build those out, but it could be a very welcoming environment for

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students to come to the campus. The Billings themselves, as Scott alluded to,

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we spent a lot of time driving around looking at different possibilities for the

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university. To do Disney Arts well, you need high ceilings and ideally

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minimal interior walls, and there were a lot of spaces we looked at, Scott and

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members of his staff. We went to some unique places. We brave some unique places. We were

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we were creative. So being able to see the arrowhead invasion campus for the first time in June

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was pretty exciting for me because it was literally exactly what we were looking for. High ceilings,

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opportunity to kind of a clean slate. No interior walls. It gives us a chance to build out

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the way we want to build out. And frankly, a way we're not able to do even on our home campus

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because of the existing buildings.

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It's a perfect model for that.

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The campus itself, you see the exteriors,

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has a field where you can, you because of the fact

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that Charles and his investors control that space.

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We have a chance to kind of build a campus

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and grow out as we need the space,

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but we also can incorporate more of a campus field.

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So we're excited about that,

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and it does have a very nice atmosphere.

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Just far enough off a bell road, it's a little quiet.

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And we think there's a lot of it would be a very attractive to students.

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And then the picture up on the left hand side, you see Charles and his group also own the lot next to it.

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So as things develop, we build out the existing structures.

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There's an opportunity for growth as we see what the needs are for our campus.

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Right there connected so we can continue to extend the campus without having to leap over other other facilities.

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So that's also another upside to the location.

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And so when this all came together, we felt pretty excited about not only the location, but

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the fact that Charles Clarks involved in the project.

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Here they are, Charles is here in person, but so you can compare photo images.

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And then we mentioned, so we'll talk to about Charles, but you know, partners are a big piece

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of this.

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There's a African proverb that the pastor of new life communicates.

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He uses a lot if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.

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I think for us to try to launch this well to have longevity.

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We need to have the right partners and two of those partners would be Charles and as you can see

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he's got a couple of bullet points there on him, you know that about Charles.

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Then David Cornelius, David is a beauty education.

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I use the phrase icon there, but really he's been so connected to

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The CTE program, he's helped write the curriculum, he's been on the leadership group, he actually has trained a number of the teachers statewide who are involved in the CTE, the media program.

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He's currently on faculty, had junk faculty at ASU, in fact, that's where he is tonight teaching at Cronkite, and he has developed several media programs here in the Valley.

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So the great thing is you go back to the slide to talk about all the media students that are involved in CTE throughout the state.

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Dave has connections allows us to go right into the classroom, gives us credibility, locally, along with our national reputation.

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So we have a pathway to get to those target audiences that we think is going to be very viable for the university.

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One of the elements that was already in place for the Arrowhead Invasion Campus, as Scott mentioned,

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or as I mentioned, that David and Charles already had a vision for this as being a film,

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being a media technology education campus, one of the use it for something unique and different,

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and already worked on a couple key points.

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Can that communicate collaborate, create?

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Here's some quick descriptions of that.

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Connect, students with professionals,

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connect teachers with technology,

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university with community,

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commerce with content creators.

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Communicate, tell good stories, provide solutions.

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Collaborate, identify opportunities, solve problems,

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share facilities, embed enterprise with education,

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and take collaborators and connect them together.

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Either existing or also targeted collaborators

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as part of the industry and create opportunities,

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clear pathways, create community connections,

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town and gown, jobs, business, create, and engaging content.

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It's a perfect fit for what we want to do at Huntington University.

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So the Havill's piece is already in place for us to be able to step in and be part of that is very exciting.

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The idea is that industry will professionals will be, this will be a working,

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digital media industry campus, in addition to an educational facility.

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So students will come and be able to work side by side of industry professionals,

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And it's who professionals who, here's an example of how it will work.

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Arrowhead Invasion Campus.

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That person has an opportunity to access, equipment, facilities, and also the workforce

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that our students would provide.

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As their business grows, they can solicit outside business from peoria businesses or West

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Valley businesses, and then enlist the facilities and resources at the Innovation Center

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to help create those projects.

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As their businesses grow, they already have been exposed

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to a great workforce that they're seeing developed

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right before they're very eyes,

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so they can actually cherry pick the best of the best

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and employ them within their business.

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And you get this snowball effect that will just happen

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where we think this is a very efficient way

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to spur the media industry here in Pioria.

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Serve the Pioria business community

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with high-end media projects at a very competitive price.

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Effectively use equipment and space via sharing model

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while also creating ancillary income for HU

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to assist in keeping tuition costs low for the Arizona market.

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Those pieces are coming together.

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That would be a pretty aggressive goal.

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Statement to make otherwise.

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But I think you're seeing how the pieces are coming together for us.

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And for that is a pretty exciting model.

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One of the great things about having Matthew Earl Jones.

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Here's these are pieces that he can help play.

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Industry professionals who want to be involved in the project

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who are connected to other people.

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Industry benefits.

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Aero Innovation Campus certainly benefits our students and benefits a city of Peoria to bring that business to this area.

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The image you see here is one of our graduates Andrew, who had a vision, you want to work for DreamWorks some day.

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So he's a double major in a digital animation, computer science, and today he's working for DreamWorks.

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And a big part of that was a connection that one of his faculty had to someone who worked at DreamWorks.

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He developed an industry level sort of Vita, but that phone call that a professor can make got him in the door and then Andrew's credibility is skills, you know, allowed him to stay there.

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So we want to create that kind of an environment at the Arrowhead Innovation Campus.

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We have collaborators already kind of coming together when there's an idea that sort of unites folks, people come and it's been exciting to see how some of these players have emerged.

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BioXL, BioInspire, Remi's here representing that.

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We've had conversations with Remi, with Marianne, in regards to some of the ways that

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HU and our Disney Arts campus can intersect with BioInspire.

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You can see the quotes there.

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It's the idea of this whole model of real world experience for our students that also benefits entrepreneurial

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small businesses.

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The things that the City of Pure is already invested in, like BioInspire.

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great fit, great fit for what we want to do.

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Can say it is another partner that's already come to the

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come to our campus.

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They're actually sub-leasing from us in our initial office location.

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And best way to describe them is just a quick paragraph.

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This is the intro letter to their letter of support for

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the university.

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Can say a social enterprise is a peoria,

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Arizona based not for profit organization

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whose mission is to create jobs and provide

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support services for persons facing challenges to employment, our long-term goals create

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at least 1,000 jobs for underserved population groups within our initial three targeted groups

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being veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan wars persons with developmental disabilities

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and at risk youth. While we've created partnerships with major landowners and Tempe,

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Mesa, Pason, and Phoenix, we have elected to relocate our corporate headquarters to Piora

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it's Huntington University's mission, so closely fits our own mission.

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Sometimes there's going to be some obvious connections, other times you're thinking,

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well, how would a social enterprise group interface?

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Media is an incredibly tool for people to help tell their own story, veterans,

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need that, and it's also a way to kind of train for workforce development.

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It's been already built out on the East Valley through a civetan project there.

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We're looking to bring that here to the AIC.

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There are a number of other collaborators that are sort of emerging that aren't in place yet that are potentially coming.

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Design build technology firm based out of Atlanta that has a manufacturing plant in China.

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We'll like to locate a design center at the Arrowhead Innovation Campus.

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Faith-based film studios and other studios are interested.

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Pureflex, which something may be of our own in Scottsdale is contacted us about once our studios are up and running.

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Can they use our space?

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And which we would love to have that happen.

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A Kids Star, a national program to train kids into the area where I have radio, would like to locate their animation campus.

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So we're seeing folks who have a vision for digital yards as we co-locate is going to be a pretty vibrant environment.

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And we'd like to see what happens in that area. And again, it's one of the most pieces where some of these folks have just

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just used a little bit of a connection train. They come together, but when there's a kind of a rallying focus by

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digamy arts, people start to emerge and it becomes pretty exciting. Here's what we'd like to do.

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And we think is a possibility for a university in the city of Peoria.

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We'd like to see that digamy arts becomes a technology industry for Peoria.

447
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:35,520
There's a unique opportunity that doesn't really exist anywhere else in the state, where there's really a point,

448
00:30:35,540 --> 00:30:38,080
place you can point to this, says, well, that's a DMA hotbed.

449
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,580
We think pure can can do that.

450
00:30:41,260 --> 00:30:45,400
We know the 94% of businesses use social media, and those that don't probably should.

451
00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:53,420
We can impact the businesses here in this in Pioria by providing services for them that could be far more cost effective

452
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,800
than what they could get an agencies or our elsewhere.

453
00:30:58,140 --> 00:31:00,320
Pipe Point of Access and Success for Students.

454
00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:17,660
We embrace the STEM initiatives already taking place in Pioria, and I think there's going to be a great pipeline from students in PUSD through either PSBN or other programs to come, get ahead starting college, get their degrees here in the city, get connected to the businesses while they're here and stay.

455
00:31:17,660 --> 00:31:22,000
So we think we can be a talent, a tractor, the Digimon Yards industry.

456
00:31:22,820 --> 00:31:27,960
We think we can be a talent retention tool through the pipeline of access, success for students.

457
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:34,460
We can be a destination for national and regional Digimon Yards institutes, either through the connections

458
00:31:34,460 --> 00:31:38,480
that already exist through the university through Dave Cornelius who has done this and replicated

459
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:43,900
it a number of times here in the Arizona or through Matthew Earl Jones, who is institute with

460
00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:45,820
love to do these sort of things on a national level.

461
00:31:45,820 --> 00:31:50,400
So we can bring those people here to Peoria, and the idea is that this campus has been used

462
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:58,260
all the time, all year round, to give higher visibility to the city of Peoria and to

463
00:31:58,260 --> 00:31:58,820
the university.

464
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,460
And we want to create affordable excellence.

465
00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:06,820
We're trying to structure this campus, so that students can come to any university, get a

466
00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:15,640
national level education from a nationally recognized liberal arts college at the same price

467
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,240
that students would pay for state schools here in the state.

468
00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:20,560
So we like cost not be a barrier.

469
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,320
We're working very, very hard to have that to deliver.

470
00:32:25,260 --> 00:32:28,540
Basically, a state school price for what we think

471
00:32:28,540 --> 00:32:33,900
will be a very robust and focused education here.

472
00:32:36,910 --> 00:32:41,250
To summarize, and I love the picture here a little bit

473
00:32:41,250 --> 00:32:43,010
with mentioned that is one of the things

474
00:32:43,010 --> 00:32:44,870
that I think our faith-based component

475
00:32:44,870 --> 00:32:50,250
that comes as our students had a leaning towards telling the positive side.

476
00:32:50,390 --> 00:32:55,870
And I think we all know that the world needs, city needs, more positive stories.

477
00:32:56,530 --> 00:33:00,070
This is a drawing of one of my favorite artists who was a hunting university student.

478
00:33:00,610 --> 00:33:02,490
And just seeing the upside, seeing the positive.

479
00:33:02,770 --> 00:33:06,950
I think that's one of the things that we think we can bring to the city of Peoria.

480
00:33:07,290 --> 00:33:09,210
Our students will have a little bit of a natural leaning that way.

481
00:33:09,410 --> 00:33:11,470
It certainly is our intent.

482
00:33:11,470 --> 00:33:19,050
good people telling good stories being encouraging, being redemptive, we look forward to that opportunity.

483
00:33:21,210 --> 00:33:21,970
Economic impact.

484
00:33:22,710 --> 00:33:27,450
We believe we will have not only our employment impact, as the people that we employ,

485
00:33:28,210 --> 00:33:32,010
also the payroll and expenditure of not only those who are employed by the University,

486
00:33:32,330 --> 00:33:39,610
but also students while they're here, student interns to impact local businesses, their needs,

487
00:33:39,610 --> 00:33:41,470
development of new business startups.

488
00:33:42,050 --> 00:33:49,250
Digimon Yards people are by their nature, entrepreneurial, they are self-starters, and so we

489
00:33:49,250 --> 00:33:54,110
think there's going to be some pretty neat things that will come out of the Digimon Yards

490
00:33:54,110 --> 00:33:58,250
campus here and with the other collaboration entities within the Arrowhead Innovation Campus.

491
00:33:58,810 --> 00:34:03,450
Workforce development, preparation of highly educated graduates and key technology fields,

492
00:34:04,110 --> 00:34:08,390
animation, digital media broadcasting, film, graphic design, video communications, we can increase

493
00:34:08,390 --> 00:34:13,510
college completion opportunities for Peoria residents, possibly for the development of educational

494
00:34:13,510 --> 00:34:19,190
programs, a specific sector needs. There's some things that we don't know, but as we learn

495
00:34:19,190 --> 00:34:23,950
more about Peoria, we'll be able to work together to decide how can we meet those needs. Whether

496
00:34:23,950 --> 00:34:29,290
for digital media arts or some of the other programs that Honeyton has back in home campus that

497
00:34:29,290 --> 00:34:33,870
will be an exciting conversation to continue to have. We want to partner with Scott and his

498
00:34:33,870 --> 00:34:37,970
office to attract new corporations and industries to Peoria.

499
00:34:38,290 --> 00:34:41,330
Again, remember everybody has some need for digital media arts.

500
00:34:41,890 --> 00:34:43,070
Everyone has a story to tell.

501
00:34:43,630 --> 00:34:46,030
Community development, we are by our nature,

502
00:34:46,670 --> 00:34:47,750
a town and town and town institution.

503
00:34:47,970 --> 00:34:51,230
We have a great relationship with our home city in Huntington, Indiana.

504
00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:53,830
In fact, the mayor's Huntington University graduate,

505
00:34:54,390 --> 00:34:56,210
Director of Economic Development, the nature grad,

506
00:34:56,990 --> 00:34:59,250
the outgoing superintendent of schools in nature grad,

507
00:34:59,750 --> 00:35:01,290
the head of our United Way,

508
00:35:01,570 --> 00:35:03,290
nature grad, the list schools on and on.

509
00:35:03,290 --> 00:35:07,750
That won't happen immediately in PRA, but it's certainly our intent to have an impact here,

510
00:35:08,010 --> 00:35:13,250
and as people graduate, we want them to connect with the community, and also as our

511
00:35:13,250 --> 00:35:17,590
full-time professionals work here, we want to be community-connected. To be volunteer service,

512
00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:22,270
we are a service community-minded institution, and that mission will be

513
00:35:22,270 --> 00:35:26,930
will carry over here to PRA training workshops, lectures, other entrepreneurial opportunities

514
00:35:27,450 --> 00:35:31,670
for people either at an education or for small business people who just want to learn some basic

515
00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:35,410
social media skills, we'll be able to provide that for them in a unique way.

516
00:35:36,150 --> 00:35:40,730
And digital media students will projects one gauge, local not-for-profits with small

517
00:35:40,730 --> 00:35:46,130
businesses, allow people who maybe don't have a voice to tell their story, to tell their

518
00:35:46,130 --> 00:35:49,210
story, to expand and have a positive impact on the community.

519
00:35:50,010 --> 00:35:50,930
And programs enrollment.

520
00:35:51,150 --> 00:35:56,470
We have a sharp focus on one specific area, digital media arts, animation film, fusion media,

521
00:35:56,570 --> 00:36:00,810
graphic design, web development, gaming would be something else that could be added to that

522
00:36:00,810 --> 00:36:05,770
We have a strong connection in place with key figures in Arizona digital media education.

523
00:36:06,490 --> 00:36:12,090
And so that is going to help us identify target audiences, but also faculty with David Cornelius,

524
00:36:12,310 --> 00:36:16,870
with Matthew Earl Jones folks in industry who can bring high-level industry professionals here

525
00:36:16,870 --> 00:36:22,510
to the campus to train, teach, and share their experiences with the students that are here.

526
00:36:23,730 --> 00:36:26,910
And the fact that there are minimal, high-education options for students in the state

527
00:36:26,910 --> 00:36:30,570
creates an opportunity to have high demand under supply.

528
00:36:31,070 --> 00:36:34,430
That's a good combination when it comes to developing a new market.

529
00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:39,590
We understand that breaking into any new market is challenging.

530
00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:46,710
So, in closing, after considering a variety of possible means of launching our presence here in the city of Peoria,

531
00:36:47,270 --> 00:36:51,150
we've deliberately chosen to focus our offerings on a pre-qualified target audience

532
00:36:51,150 --> 00:36:54,790
to bring our most highly enrolled and most distinctive program

533
00:36:54,790 --> 00:37:02,670
To lease space from a landlord who was already planning on developing a technology campus to relocate an experienced enrollment vice president,

534
00:37:02,950 --> 00:37:16,870
who's me to the city of Eoria, to partner with a well connected and respected local educator, like Dave Cornelius, to find partners out there who are industry professionals like Matthew Earl Jones and to build something cool and unique here in the city of Eoria.

535
00:37:17,890 --> 00:37:26,070
That would conclude the presentation part, but certainly open to questions if the council has any or for Scott for a nice close, right?

536
00:37:27,710 --> 00:37:28,810
Council, do you have any questions?

537
00:37:29,630 --> 00:37:30,150
I do.

538
00:37:31,290 --> 00:37:31,790
Thank you, Mayor.

539
00:37:32,830 --> 00:37:33,850
Jeff, great presentation.

540
00:37:34,990 --> 00:37:41,650
This certainly can be an exciting time for the city of Peoria and Huntington University, and so I think we're all excited about that.

541
00:37:41,650 --> 00:37:47,170
My question is a couple of questions is what initially is the square footage you're looking at at the university?

542
00:37:47,810 --> 00:37:52,870
Yeah, so we're looking at, start out in 15,000 square feet and then growing within three to five years,

543
00:37:53,170 --> 00:38:00,250
25,000 square feet, which is nice as it kind of fills in some of the existing shell buildings that Charles has on that property.

544
00:38:00,850 --> 00:38:05,570
And then beyond that, again, that open lot is sort of who knows at that point. There could be a lot of potential.

545
00:38:05,570 --> 00:38:12,030
but initially 15 and then growing out the 25 fairly quickly as enrollment and needs expand.

546
00:38:12,490 --> 00:38:18,570
Okay, and as you come into Bioria, is the digital arts, the only discipline that you will currently offer?

547
00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:22,030
It is the one that we'll launch with and lead with. Okay.

548
00:38:22,290 --> 00:38:27,810
But I would mention that we think this is the salvage of foothold here in the city of Bioria and as we continue

549
00:38:27,810 --> 00:38:34,190
of conversations, we have a number of great programs back on the home campus that are nationally accredited.

550
00:38:34,190 --> 00:38:40,150
our nursing program is nationally credited, social work, education, occupational therapies and

551
00:38:40,150 --> 00:38:44,110
and canisies status right now. So we may find some other great fits. But yes, good to

552
00:38:44,110 --> 00:38:47,830
me, arts will be our lead. So we can come in, do that very well, and then continue conversation

553
00:38:47,830 --> 00:38:51,930
about what else we might bring to the city. Okay. And you mentioned earlier in your presentation

554
00:38:51,930 --> 00:38:58,850
that you could help people kind of finish their degrees, but if someone chose not to go to a

555
00:38:58,850 --> 00:39:02,770
community college, I'm assuming that Huntington would bring them in as a freshman. Oh, absolutely.

556
00:39:02,770 --> 00:39:04,510
And it would be a four-year degree program?

557
00:39:05,250 --> 00:39:05,410
OK.

558
00:39:05,670 --> 00:39:05,850
Yeah.

559
00:39:05,930 --> 00:39:07,250
Thank you for clarifying that, Bill.

560
00:39:07,350 --> 00:39:07,450
Yeah.

561
00:39:07,450 --> 00:39:08,450
That is exactly the case.

562
00:39:08,530 --> 00:39:10,010
Is that students can come right in?

563
00:39:10,210 --> 00:39:12,270
And we will start and finish right

564
00:39:12,270 --> 00:39:16,990
on our university campus or in partnership with community colleges.

565
00:39:17,350 --> 00:39:19,510
Find a great way for them to kind of streamline and pipeline.

566
00:39:20,070 --> 00:39:20,230
OK.

567
00:39:20,370 --> 00:39:21,090
Thank you.

568
00:39:22,170 --> 00:39:22,770
What's up?

569
00:39:24,130 --> 00:39:24,870
Thank you.

570
00:39:25,350 --> 00:39:26,650
Such an exciting presentation.

571
00:39:26,690 --> 00:39:27,270
Oh, thanks.

572
00:39:27,770 --> 00:39:28,350
Such a future.

573
00:39:29,450 --> 00:39:29,710
When?

574
00:39:29,970 --> 00:39:31,070
Where are you planning to?

575
00:39:31,150 --> 00:39:31,570
Oh, yes.

576
00:39:31,790 --> 00:39:32,590
Open the term.

577
00:39:32,590 --> 00:39:36,930
That's a good question, so after two and a half years, it would be nice to have sort of a target date.

578
00:39:37,950 --> 00:39:45,390
We are currently in our proposal and timeline, I would say a soft launch in spring of 2016.

579
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:54,710
Probably with some transfer students from CUNY College and probably some dual credit with the PUSD and then a full program launch in the fall of 2016.

580
00:39:54,710 --> 00:39:59,870
So, we will begin the idea as soon as we build out, we'll have some operations that will be

581
00:39:59,870 --> 00:40:03,430
educationally related, some of the institutes we can do almost right away.

582
00:40:03,950 --> 00:40:07,030
We can have some other sort of training programs.

583
00:40:07,450 --> 00:40:13,010
We can start with some of the industry work, but the reality is, as we go through the state approval process,

584
00:40:13,710 --> 00:40:16,390
a higher learning commission, we are fully accredited by those folks.

585
00:40:16,750 --> 00:40:19,310
And so this will be a new location, luckily, not luckily.

586
00:40:19,590 --> 00:40:19,930
Well, yes.

587
00:40:21,610 --> 00:40:28,550
That's the same group that also accredits the Arizona so we get a chance to just work with our current accrediting firm.

588
00:40:30,010 --> 00:40:35,070
That'll still take some time through that organization, but we think that we'll be in position for a good strong

589
00:40:36,490 --> 00:40:45,590
Watch against soft launch, bring a 2016. Again, knowing that a lot of students will be already making decisions, but then really to go full blast grand opening in fall of 2016.

590
00:40:47,790 --> 00:40:57,630
I had kind of the same questions as Bill, so say a student say you were close to them and everything was a go except that really wasn't their ultimate goal.

591
00:40:57,910 --> 00:41:07,110
Could they take two years at Huntington and get their English and their math and their history and everything that would all be transferable say to Grand Canyon or to a state university.

592
00:41:07,110 --> 00:41:10,970
And you mentioned your tuition being comparable to state.

593
00:41:11,050 --> 00:41:12,990
I think Grand Canyon is right in there too,

594
00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:14,250
maybe even a little less.

595
00:41:14,690 --> 00:41:16,490
So you'd be comparable with them?

596
00:41:16,770 --> 00:41:19,110
Yes, and it's very close to their mission.

597
00:41:19,190 --> 00:41:22,630
That's what you are in terms of being a Christian organization and all.

598
00:41:22,810 --> 00:41:23,130
Absolutely.

599
00:41:23,650 --> 00:41:27,470
Yes, well, I think in their case, their initial tuition is higher.

600
00:41:27,950 --> 00:41:30,590
Once their discount is done, it's pretty equivalent.

601
00:41:30,650 --> 00:41:32,750
So I think they've also recognized that there's

602
00:41:32,750 --> 00:41:35,110
a little bit of a price sensitivity in the market and Arizona.

603
00:41:35,110 --> 00:41:39,050
We've recognized that coming in and we can't bring our price structure from the Midwest.

604
00:41:39,370 --> 00:41:42,950
I think I didn't mention this, but we've really tried to learn that time has been well spent

605
00:41:42,950 --> 00:41:48,990
to watch other institutions come into the Arizona area and try to bring a higher price high discount

606
00:41:48,990 --> 00:41:54,710
model that just doesn't work very well. So we'd like to do is bring a high quality low price model

607
00:41:54,710 --> 00:42:00,010
into the state of Arizona. We think that will be a vote well for success.

608
00:42:00,010 --> 00:42:08,530
Well, I graduated from Grand Canyon when it was a college and I paid $12 a semester hour so you're not going to be able to talk to that.

609
00:42:08,630 --> 00:42:14,290
We may not be able to talk that exactly. Hopefully that was when we chose everything on stone and.

610
00:42:14,770 --> 00:42:17,030
The virus in charcoal was a lot cheaper at that point.

611
00:42:17,890 --> 00:42:21,550
The other thing that I wanted to know distance learning.

612
00:42:21,950 --> 00:42:24,370
Will you be doing offering distance learning?

613
00:42:24,370 --> 00:42:32,810
That is one thing that we'll be able to do almost immediately in terms of some of the core classes that we can offer online classes back in the home campus.

614
00:42:33,010 --> 00:42:35,570
Something we can administrator just gives students a chance to take those.

615
00:42:35,930 --> 00:42:40,390
So I think there'll be some flexibility that students can take all their classes from Huntington University.

616
00:42:40,730 --> 00:42:41,490
Someone beyond line.

617
00:42:42,090 --> 00:42:43,430
Someone will be here in residents.

618
00:42:44,090 --> 00:42:45,990
Someone will be in partnership with community colleges.

619
00:42:46,830 --> 00:42:50,250
or students who are in the area this for the summer time and want to have, as you mentioned,

620
00:42:50,530 --> 00:42:58,370
an English class, a history class can come and take that either face-to-face if it's what we're offering in our main campus or through an online program through the university.

621
00:42:59,130 --> 00:43:06,910
So, we will be very flexible and, again, our credits all transfer out or can transfer in, so we'll be in a good position to work with students in that sense.

622
00:43:07,110 --> 00:43:15,570
So, do you first see maybe something like a teaching major because that it fits so beautifully if someone wants to go into the graphic cards

623
00:43:15,570 --> 00:43:21,010
as a teacher, they don't want to maybe produce things themselves, but they want to teach kids

624
00:43:21,010 --> 00:43:24,790
how to do it. That seems like a fairly easy degree to add.

625
00:43:25,430 --> 00:43:29,230
Well, we're looking at it. In our education program, it's also nationally accredited, so we think

626
00:43:29,230 --> 00:43:33,810
as this builds out, when we find new opportunities, not only to train current teachers in

627
00:43:33,810 --> 00:43:38,650
the arts and give them an opportunity to kind of add another credential to their existing teaching

628
00:43:38,650 --> 00:43:44,750
degree, but we may find a unique program here that would be the education that could be

629
00:43:44,750 --> 00:43:48,990
the umbrella of our existing education program. That would be kind of cool. That would be very

630
00:43:48,990 --> 00:43:53,090
unique and literally maybe one of the first of its kind, not only in the region, but maybe

631
00:43:53,090 --> 00:43:58,010
nationally. So who knows what will develop in that way? Well I'm very happy to welcome you to

632
00:43:58,010 --> 00:44:01,230
Peoria. It's exciting. Thank you.

633
00:44:05,850 --> 00:44:09,530
Yeah, thank you. I mentioned employees. How many employees you're going to have?

634
00:44:10,170 --> 00:44:14,130
We will kind of grow that out a little bit as we go. We kind of project at this point

635
00:44:14,130 --> 00:44:20,110
being somewhere in the area probably 20 or so full-time employees in the first five years

636
00:44:20,110 --> 00:44:26,870
and then eventually up to the area, maybe eight years, so many would be adjunct

637
00:44:26,870 --> 00:44:34,010
profession professors, professors are practice in that area and so some will be full-time,

638
00:44:34,050 --> 00:44:38,310
some will be part-time, but we think in five years, somewhere around the idea of a hundred employees,

639
00:44:39,410 --> 00:44:44,710
Majority which will be part-time may be folks who locate in our facility who are working

640
00:44:44,710 --> 00:44:47,490
professionals who are also teaching part-time for the university.

641
00:44:47,910 --> 00:44:52,550
We think in terms of our core operation, probably about 20 years, so it would be as we

642
00:44:52,550 --> 00:44:55,330
kind of target and kind of project out in that first five year period.

643
00:44:56,090 --> 00:44:59,830
And that's strictly teaches you, is that the administrators and that actually...

644
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:05,460
We'll be, there'll be some of those that be full-time faculty, but likely to be more the administrators,

645
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,740
will be people who would be in terms of technology support, will be people who would be recruiters,

646
00:45:11,780 --> 00:45:17,340
financially, people, that type of things. So it'll be, there will be certainly an academic component,

647
00:45:17,780 --> 00:45:21,060
but there will also be the other, the other back office functions that we'll want to have. Eventually,

648
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,840
those as, if the campus grows here, things that we're supporting back on the home campus in Indiana

649
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,240
will need to shift out and hire people to do those face-to-face out here.

650
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:31,800
That's not, that's not a full maintenance.

651
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:33,720
That's not.

652
00:45:33,820 --> 00:45:34,520
That's not.

653
00:45:34,540 --> 00:45:35,360
That's not.

654
00:45:37,740 --> 00:45:41,040
Did you imagine how much the tuition is going to be?

655
00:45:41,500 --> 00:45:45,460
We are targeting, so I think at this point we'd say in our models we're building something

656
00:45:45,460 --> 00:45:50,960
the Cronkite School at Arizona State University is right around $335 a credit hour this year.

657
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,360
We're trying to target that is that.

658
00:45:53,540 --> 00:45:56,180
We launch, we're going to be in that ballpark.

659
00:45:56,180 --> 00:45:59,140
So we're looking at figures somewhere in the 350 to 375

660
00:45:59,140 --> 00:46:01,120
per credit hour range right now.

661
00:46:01,420 --> 00:46:04,140
Looking at that being our rate in 2016.

662
00:46:05,060 --> 00:46:07,180
OK, thank you, ma'am.

663
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:07,860
Mr. Toma.

664
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:09,880
Thank you, ma'am.

665
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,780
First of all, I'd like to say echo the thoughts

666
00:46:13,780 --> 00:46:14,880
of the others, the great presentation.

667
00:46:15,460 --> 00:46:19,100
My question is, in digital arts, how many of your students

668
00:46:19,100 --> 00:46:21,420
on average would you say that graduate

669
00:46:21,420 --> 00:46:22,940
end up working in the field?

670
00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:25,740
Yeah, and I think the great thing about the fields,

671
00:46:25,740 --> 00:46:27,820
It's fairly expansive.

672
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:30,460
I can speak as a dad of a daughter who just graduated

673
00:46:30,460 --> 00:46:32,620
with Indigenous May Arts, and this might be a good example.

674
00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:34,420
It's show how it works.

675
00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:37,240
Someone going the industry where you would quickly

676
00:46:37,240 --> 00:46:39,040
identify it as, OK, that's a Indigenous

677
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,960
industry, the dream works, the Pixar film industry.

678
00:46:43,140 --> 00:46:45,760
But others will go into support of an industry.

679
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,860
So my daughter is a marketing manager for an automobile dealership

680
00:46:49,860 --> 00:46:52,840
nearby, but she does all their social media, all their video,

681
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,640
all their photography, all their web and graphic design capabilities.

682
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,120
She also does freelance project.

683
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:01,640
She's worked for the City of Huntington.

684
00:47:01,660 --> 00:47:03,340
She's worked for you for Christ International.

685
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:04,840
She's worked for the university.

686
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:10,200
So even those that will go into areas that are existing businesses

687
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,480
will still be doing the digital yards on the side.

688
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:14,460
They are storytellers by nature.

689
00:47:14,740 --> 00:47:15,840
So the majority of them are somewhat

690
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,780
are somehow connected to their core function.

691
00:47:19,780 --> 00:47:24,840
and the employability and the career placement is quite high in that major because there's

692
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:29,240
such a need that this point is businesses expanding, grow, realize, boy, we really

693
00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:32,020
need someone who come on board, who can handle this for us.

694
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,480
And so we've been reducing students that can do that type of thing.

695
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,000
And we didn't really think that the biomed industry might be a possibility for our graduates.

696
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:44,400
You don't sense that, but there is a very robust corridor, just north of Huntington,

697
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:50,040
where Johnson Johnson, Depuis, Zimmer, BioMet have all located corporate headquarters there

698
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:54,980
and our students have been highly sought after by them because we can animate, they can model,

699
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,980
they can literally kind of fill for either sales, training, product development,

700
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:02,440
that's an exciting thing, even with Bioinspired, we see a lot of connections there.

701
00:48:03,020 --> 00:48:08,980
So there's a lot of good different ways to answer the question, but a lot because of the breadth

702
00:48:08,980 --> 00:48:12,500
of the careers, and the breadth of the application,

703
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,360
but Georgia's students are working in a digitally arts area.

704
00:48:16,700 --> 00:48:17,540
Thank you.

705
00:48:17,860 --> 00:48:18,460
That's too bad.

706
00:48:20,730 --> 00:48:22,030
Everybody seems to have questions.

707
00:48:22,950 --> 00:48:25,310
This is really interesting to me because I was at Pure Unified

708
00:48:25,310 --> 00:48:29,350
when the PSP and Project started, and I hope you're a 33 student

709
00:48:29,350 --> 00:48:32,150
set first year when it started up.

710
00:48:32,230 --> 00:48:33,690
And I actually had lunch with Dr. Central today.

711
00:48:34,570 --> 00:48:36,670
So if you're ironic that we're having this discussion today.

712
00:48:37,470 --> 00:48:38,470
So a couple of questions for me.

713
00:48:38,470 --> 00:48:44,030
Do you have a graduation rate that you're for your students in Huntington?

714
00:48:44,190 --> 00:48:44,390
We do.

715
00:48:44,510 --> 00:48:50,530
It's just a little over 60 percent that started Huntington graduating in a little over four

716
00:48:50,530 --> 00:48:51,010
years.

717
00:48:54,690 --> 00:48:57,490
I had a bunch of questions listed here and a lot of people have already asked them, so bear

718
00:48:57,490 --> 00:48:59,170
with me for just a moment.

719
00:49:00,150 --> 00:49:02,590
Projection enrollment in the next five to ten years.

720
00:49:02,650 --> 00:49:02,930
Yes.

721
00:49:03,050 --> 00:49:03,550
That's a good question.

722
00:49:03,550 --> 00:49:07,510
So it's, we have been projecting out and looking at it three to five years, somewhere between

723
00:49:07,510 --> 00:49:10,630
300 and 500, we think we'll be the total head count.

724
00:49:11,550 --> 00:49:16,270
That varies a lot because we're trying to get a sense of the market here.

725
00:49:16,470 --> 00:49:23,730
We feel like, before able to walk into a classroom of 100 students who have been, you'll

726
00:49:23,730 --> 00:49:28,530
media trained through Puri High School through CTE, we walk in with someone like a David

727
00:49:28,530 --> 00:49:32,730
Cornelius who knows the, the, the teacher in that area and we can talk to those students

728
00:49:32,730 --> 00:49:37,470
say we have an option to offer a nationally regarded program in your area of interest.

729
00:49:38,090 --> 00:49:42,110
It's located here in the state, pricing is the same as a state school.

730
00:49:42,530 --> 00:49:45,950
The question is how many of those students will say, yes, that's what I want to do.

731
00:49:46,050 --> 00:49:50,050
And we don't know is that half a percent, one percent is at five percent.

732
00:49:50,350 --> 00:49:53,090
So it could escalate pretty quickly, but we're trying to be very conservative.

733
00:49:53,950 --> 00:50:00,190
And looking at the idea of maybe a somewhere between 300 and 500 head count by years three to five.

734
00:50:00,190 --> 00:50:02,790
Okay, so that actually leads to my last two questions.

735
00:50:03,430 --> 00:50:05,390
One, do you have scholarship opportunities for kids?

736
00:50:06,110 --> 00:50:10,190
What we will do is our goal is to not so much directly

737
00:50:10,190 --> 00:50:14,950
do the scholarship, but to try to come in at a set discount rate

738
00:50:14,950 --> 00:50:18,290
that will be commas ripped to state schools.

739
00:50:18,970 --> 00:50:23,710
That being said, so again, we don't want to play the sort of

740
00:50:23,710 --> 00:50:25,330
what it becomes a little bit of the shell game for the little

741
00:50:25,330 --> 00:50:27,190
rards back in the Midwest where you have a high price

742
00:50:27,190 --> 00:50:28,610
and then you have a high discount.

743
00:50:29,170 --> 00:50:35,110
But we will be very interested in working with local organizations to raise money to develop

744
00:50:35,110 --> 00:50:39,670
scholarship programs for students here and Arizona support the Arizona initiative.

745
00:50:40,530 --> 00:50:45,850
So our structure to try to come in can kind of be a little bit of the keep the sticker price low and

746
00:50:45,850 --> 00:50:48,590
honest and viable but we will also be working to develop organization.

747
00:50:48,990 --> 00:50:53,210
We think that once people get a vision of what's happening and want to keep students here

748
00:50:53,210 --> 00:50:58,390
that will find folks who can step up and would create scholarship opportunities for students

749
00:50:58,390 --> 00:51:02,110
here in Arizona. We would very much welcome that. Okay. And then my final question

750
00:51:02,110 --> 00:51:07,110
I promise. Credentials for teaching are there certain credentials that I need to have

751
00:51:07,110 --> 00:51:14,050
to teach at Huntington. What we do is typically it's a master's level to teach. I wouldn't

752
00:51:14,050 --> 00:51:20,130
mention that other programs that are naturally credited to have additional requirements beyond

753
00:51:20,130 --> 00:51:23,830
what the university would have. Did you mean arts does not have an additional professional

754
00:51:23,830 --> 00:51:28,610
accreditation requirement. So if we were bringing in nursing or education, there would be another group

755
00:51:28,610 --> 00:51:33,130
that would have oversight. Did you know the arts is a little more flexible? So because

756
00:51:33,130 --> 00:51:37,390
the nature of it, we will have professors or practices who can come in, who maybe will teach

757
00:51:37,390 --> 00:51:43,110
an adjunct class, who maybe just have a bachelor's but have a lot of years of experience. But certainly

758
00:51:43,110 --> 00:51:48,450
to be a full-time faculty member, would be a master of fine arts, would be sort of that minimum,

759
00:51:48,450 --> 00:51:50,190
to be full-time faculty.

760
00:51:52,010 --> 00:51:52,610
Thank you.

761
00:51:52,750 --> 00:51:52,890
All right.

762
00:51:52,970 --> 00:51:54,670
We have one more question from Youth Council.

763
00:51:54,910 --> 00:51:55,210
Yes.

764
00:51:55,290 --> 00:51:55,950
Yeah, it's more of a common.

765
00:51:55,990 --> 00:51:57,970
I just like to say how exciting this is.

766
00:51:58,190 --> 00:51:59,650
This is a student of the P.R. in effect school district.

767
00:51:59,670 --> 00:52:00,850
I go to Centennial High School.

768
00:52:00,870 --> 00:52:01,230
Oh, great.

769
00:52:01,430 --> 00:52:03,070
And I work very closely in that one.

770
00:52:03,190 --> 00:52:03,710
I have an announcement.

771
00:52:03,930 --> 00:52:05,150
Why not take place to go to the media room.

772
00:52:05,230 --> 00:52:06,070
Because that's where they do our announcements.

773
00:52:06,330 --> 00:52:07,490
And when you go into those media rooms.

774
00:52:07,650 --> 00:52:10,930
That is a hub of creativity of students.

775
00:52:11,570 --> 00:52:13,110
They take students every single year.

776
00:52:13,190 --> 00:52:14,510
Students can start when they're freshman.

777
00:52:14,970 --> 00:52:17,090
And many of them stay all four years until they're senior year.

778
00:52:17,090 --> 00:52:19,430
and they can learn so many exciting things.

779
00:52:19,670 --> 00:52:20,910
There's an I've been involved with the CTE,

780
00:52:20,950 --> 00:52:22,890
I've been more involved with the business side of CTE,

781
00:52:23,090 --> 00:52:24,490
but I've seen all the events

782
00:52:24,490 --> 00:52:26,970
and all the opportunities that media,

783
00:52:27,050 --> 00:52:28,330
that the CTE and the state of Arizona,

784
00:52:28,510 --> 00:52:30,770
especially in our district provides for media students.

785
00:52:31,190 --> 00:52:33,070
And I can think of a plethora of students that,

786
00:52:33,130 --> 00:52:35,070
I mean, if you can see the cool things that they design,

787
00:52:35,290 --> 00:52:38,090
a lot of my friends, they do stuff on YouTube,

788
00:52:38,370 --> 00:52:39,630
which is an incredible outlet,

789
00:52:40,090 --> 00:52:41,310
a creative entrepreneurial outlet

790
00:52:41,310 --> 00:52:43,510
that you can go and post videos and do media things

791
00:52:43,510 --> 00:52:45,150
and make money off of that.

792
00:52:45,150 --> 00:52:46,610
And I can just think of so many students

793
00:52:46,610 --> 00:52:49,590
that would just take this opportunity and full-stripe

794
00:52:49,590 --> 00:52:51,390
of being involved with this, not only in my school,

795
00:52:51,510 --> 00:52:52,510
but all across this district.

796
00:52:53,170 --> 00:52:54,850
It's incredible what people are doing with media.

797
00:52:55,270 --> 00:52:56,830
And it's becoming really a norm,

798
00:52:57,010 --> 00:52:59,630
especially with my generation as far as not only

799
00:52:59,630 --> 00:53:01,230
a job placement and the future,

800
00:53:01,290 --> 00:53:03,030
but just even knowing basic simple things

801
00:53:03,030 --> 00:53:04,830
that we need to know to be successful.

802
00:53:05,490 --> 00:53:07,910
So great job and so excited to see this take place here.

803
00:53:08,190 --> 00:53:09,310
Oh, I appreciate that's a great comment.

804
00:53:09,950 --> 00:53:11,890
I look, my daughter being involved, my oldest daughter,

805
00:53:12,350 --> 00:53:14,510
there is certainly a mentality and an environment

806
00:53:14,510 --> 00:53:15,030
that happens.

807
00:53:15,030 --> 00:53:20,410
So we have creative people coming together, it's by nature a collaborative sort of a discipline.

808
00:53:21,370 --> 00:53:22,550
And so it can be pretty high energy.

809
00:53:22,710 --> 00:53:27,470
So what you see in the high schools is only replicated and expanded in the university setting,

810
00:53:27,930 --> 00:53:33,350
particularly when you have people who are professionals in the field like Matthew and Dave,

811
00:53:33,790 --> 00:53:35,990
who kind of just sort of feed that a little bit.

812
00:53:36,230 --> 00:53:38,010
It could be pretty energizing place to be around.

813
00:53:39,730 --> 00:53:42,170
Okay, well, thank you, Scott, did you want to say anything?

814
00:53:42,590 --> 00:53:43,930
Yes, there's one more thing.

815
00:53:43,930 --> 00:53:51,910
One more slide, if I could borrow the, oh, yes, there's just a kind of, I guess we've ran out of juice, so I'll do it verbally, okay.

816
00:53:52,130 --> 00:53:59,370
So the purpose of today was for you to get to hear the background and what is the concept of this campus.

817
00:54:00,470 --> 00:54:08,490
If this is something that the council is interested in staff pursuing, Hunting University has tendered up proposal,

818
00:54:09,850 --> 00:54:19,250
Then what we would do is go and start to go shading that proposal and go back to council and executive session for normal to talk about the outputs of that.

819
00:54:20,210 --> 00:54:30,110
So what would be asking tonight is is this something that the council's desire is to staff pursuing in terms of negotiating with hundreds of university relative to the submitted proposal.

820
00:54:31,670 --> 00:54:37,310
I think you've heard so many positive comments from our council that you realize we have a consensus to pursue it.

821
00:54:37,310 --> 00:54:39,970
And I just wanted to add my comments to that.

822
00:54:40,270 --> 00:54:42,990
Your enthusiasm and excitement is so contagious

823
00:54:42,990 --> 00:54:46,430
and you've put together a tremendous team.

824
00:54:47,010 --> 00:54:48,410
It really just says a lot.

825
00:54:48,570 --> 00:54:50,330
The collaboration, or as you say,

826
00:54:50,490 --> 00:54:55,910
the chain of collaboration, it speaks volumes for who you are.

827
00:54:55,990 --> 00:54:59,590
And I think that the programs that you're putting together

828
00:55:00,430 --> 00:55:02,650
mesh very nicely with the innovation

829
00:55:02,650 --> 00:55:06,010
that we see ourselves as in our future in Pioria.

830
00:55:06,010 --> 00:55:11,370
So thanks for what you're doing and I look forward to seeing something back here in the form of a deal.

831
00:55:12,470 --> 00:55:12,890
Thank you, Mayor.

832
00:55:13,010 --> 00:55:13,470
Thank you, Council.

833
00:55:16,650 --> 00:55:19,050
Okay, then we are adjourned into our seven PM meeting.