{"id":27807,"date":"2013-11-13T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=27807"},"modified":"2013-11-15T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:04:10","slug":"northern-arizona-university-named-best-college-military-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/northern-arizona-university-named-best-college-military-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Arizona University named a \u2018Best College\u2019 for military vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Best-for-Vets-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27816\" alt=\"Best for Vets logo\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Best-for-Vets-logo.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/11\/Best-for-Vets-logo.jpg 350w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/11\/Best-for-Vets-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2013\/11\/Best-for-Vets-logo-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Northern Arizona University ranks as the top school for military veterans in Arizona and throughout the Southwest, and among the top third of colleges and universities nationally, according to the <i>Military Times<\/i> \u201cBest for Vets: College 2014\u201d rankings, released this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is considered a coveted list that our service members will trust and refer to when considering a school of higher learning,\u201d said <b>Andrew Griffin<\/b>, director for NAU\u2019s Office of Military and Veterans Affairs. \u201cNAU is a major contributor to Arizona\u2019s veteran success, and I sincerely thank the university for its superb support to our veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Times\u2019<\/i> editorially independent news project evaluated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20131111\/EDU03\/311110002\">many factors<\/a> that make an institution a good fit for military veterans, including a first-time focus on\u00a0Education Department statistics commonly used to track student success and academic quality.\u00a0Broadly speaking, schools were evaluated in five categories: university culture, student support, academic quality, academic policies and financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>The complete Best for Vets rankings are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/article\/20131111\/EDU04\/311110003\/Best-Vets-Colleges-2014\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/northern-arizona-university-named-best-college-military-vets\/\">Northern Arizona University ranks as the top school for military veterans in Arizona and throughout the Southwest, and among the top third of colleges and universities nationally, according to the Military Times \u201cBest for Vets: College 2014\u201d rankings, released this week. \u201cThis is considered a coveted list that our service members will trust and refer&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":27816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-editors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807","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=27807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}