{"id":22588,"date":"2006-06-07T15:47:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T22:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=22588"},"modified":"2015-08-17T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T22:05:17","slug":"nau-award-to-benefit-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-award-to-benefit-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU award to benefit rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Northern Arizona University has been awarded University Center status by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in Oregon last week during a conference hosted by EDA.<\/p>\n<p>The university will receive $535,000 over the next five years to support the mission of the Arizona Rural Policy Initiative, according to\u00a0<strong>Wayne Fox<\/strong>, assistant dean of the College of Business Administration and the director of NAU&#8217;s Center for Business Outreach. NAU was the only university to be added to the Western Region University Center program out of more than 40 applicants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;University Center status is a milestone in meeting our very distinct mission of service to rural Arizona,&#8221; Fox said. &#8220;We have the resources and commitment to improve the quality of life for our state&#8217;s rural population.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mission of newly formed Northern Arizona University Center will be to provide a broad array of policy analysis and foster economic development support for rural Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-award-to-benefit-rural-areas\/\">Northern Arizona University has been awarded University Center status by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The announcement was made in Oregon last week during a conference hosted by EDA. The university will receive $535,000 over the next five years to support the mission of the Arizona Rural Policy Initiative, according&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588","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=22588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}