{"id":9733,"date":"2024-03-14T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2024-10-02T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T21:22:29","slug":"mckenzie-mcloughlin-spanish-and-strategic-communications-class-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/blog\/mckenzie-mcloughlin-spanish-and-strategic-communications-class-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenzie McLoughlin | Spanish and Strategic Communications | Class of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What motivated you to enroll at NAU?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in Tucson, Flagstaff was the place we\u2019d visit in the winter. It\u2019s where I learned how to make snow angels, ski, and hear the stories of my mom\u2019s time as a Lumberjack in the \u201880s. I had dreams of going to college on a beach and then reality checks of said beach colleges, but NAU was always right there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went on my Daily Campus Visit and felt at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I studied strategic communications and Spanish when I finally became a Lumberjack, and I studied abroad (twice!), participated in Model UN, worked on campus, and built a community that was much more permanent than I was expecting. My NAU experience was unexpected in the best way possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I graduated, I started a job working for University Admissions, then found my way over to NAU Communications, where I contributed to NAU Social and The NAU Review<\/em> (how meta!). After that, I started teaching classes in the School of Communication as an adjunct instructor, and now I work in University Marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the question really is, how did I come to stay<\/em> at NAU? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The simple answer is that I love the people who work here, the students we serve, the mission we have, and the physical location we get to do it all in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why and how did you select your final major and minor at NAU?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Trial and error! Started as a minor in Spanish, studied abroad summer of freshman year, and wanted more opportunities to study abroad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what ways did your NAU coursework prepare you for your career?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I was part of the team that launched the state’s FIRST higher-ed website in SPANISH! You can’t ask for a more direct connection to a Spanish and Strategic Communications major!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"McLoughlin<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Did you participate in any experiential learning opportunities, like a study abroad or an internship? If so, how did these contribute to your overall NAU experience?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I participated in both study abroad and student employment. Study abroad really helped me expand my horizons both literally and figuratively. I studied in Costa Rica and Spain, and I built lifelong relationships and learned a lot of soft skills that helped me to hone my communication in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student employment helped me to become the professional I am today. These more concrete career skills as they relate to NAU were crucial to my current success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What part of your NAU experience do you value most highly today, and what could NAU have done better to prepare you for the future?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I think my student employment and my Model UN career really helped my experience. I think having faculty be more explicit about how classroom skills translated into work skills and experiences was key to my understanding of my transferable skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We interview McKenzie McLoughlin, a Spanish and Strategic Communications major and 2017 graduate, to discuss her time at NAU and career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":9772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,21,66],"tags":[71,42,70,72],"class_list":["post-9733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-college-of-arts-and-letters","category-global-languages-and-cultures","tag-college-of-arts-and-letters","tag-department-of-english","tag-spanish","tag-study-abroad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9807,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/9807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-arts-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}