{"id":17751,"date":"2013-05-03T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=17751"},"modified":"2013-05-15T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:20:16","slug":"its-time-to-celebrate-as-4000-lumberjacks-don-caps-and-gowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/its-time-to-celebrate-as-4000-lumberjacks-don-caps-and-gowns\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to celebrate as 4,000 Lumberjacks don caps and gowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 4,000 Lumberjacks will reach one of life\u2019s milestones when Northern Arizona University confers degrees during four commencement ceremonies set for May 10 and 11 at the Walkup Skydome and one in Yuma on May 17.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the observances,\u00a0<a title=\"NAU to honor educators, nonprofit leader\" href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/nau-to-honor-educators-nonprofit-leader\/\">four individuals will be awarded honorary degrees<\/a>\u00a0for their continued support of NAU and Arizona education.<\/p>\n<p>Commencement ceremonies are scheduled as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #61003d;\"><b>Friday, May 10, 10 a.m.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <\/b>This ceremony is for<b>\u00a0bachelor\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0students in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The College of Education<\/li>\n<li>The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Extended Campuses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Honorary degree recipient:<\/b> NAU alumnus\u00a0<b>Ernest Calder\u00f3n<\/b>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/abor-president-calderon-expresses-gratitude-to-board-university-presidents-and-faculty\/\">president emeritus<\/a>\u00a0of the Arizona Board of Regents<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #61003d;\"><b>Friday, May 10, 2 p.m. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This ceremony is for<b>\u00a0bachelor\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0students in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The College of Arts and Letters<\/li>\n<li>The University College<\/li>\n<li>The W.A. Franke College of Business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Honorary degree recipient:<\/strong> <b>Kerry Blume<\/b>, president and CEO of United Way of Northern Arizona<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #61003d;\"><b>Saturday, May 11, 10 a.m. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This ceremony is for\u00a0<b>bachelor\u2019s<\/b>\u00a0students in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences<\/li>\n<li>The College of Health and Human Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Honorary degree recipient: <\/strong>NAU alumnus <b>Paul Keim<\/b>, director of NAU\u2019s Center for Genetics and Genomics, Regents\u2019 Professor of Biological Sciences and Cowden Endowed Chair in Microbiology<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #61003d;\"><b>Saturday, May 11, 2 p.m.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This ceremony is for\u00a0<b>all graduate students<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorary degree recipient:<\/strong> NAU alumna<b> Nancie Lindblom<\/b>, the 2013 Arizona Teacher of the Year<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #61003d;\"><b>Friday, May 17, 8 p.m. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/yuma.nau.edu\/services\/Commencment_Schedule.aspx\">ceremony<\/a> is for graduates at NAU-Yuma and takes place at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Yuma.<\/p>\n<p>Details about commencement may be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Commencement\/Fall-and-Spring-Schedules\/\">online<\/a>. Watch the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/Commencement\/Watch-Live\/\">ceremonies live<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/its-time-to-celebrate-as-4000-lumberjacks-don-caps-and-gowns\/\">Nearly 4,000 Lumberjacks will reach one of life\u2019s milestones when Northern Arizona University confers degrees during four commencement ceremonies set for May 10 and 11 at the Walkup Skydome and one in Yuma on May 17. As part of the observances,\u00a0four individuals will be awarded honorary degrees\u00a0for their continued support of NAU and Arizona education.&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":17752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}