{"id":31842,"date":"2014-08-22T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=31842"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T19:12:59","slug":"welcome-president-cheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/welcome-president-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome back, welcome home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>by Rita Cheng, President\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ChengWelcome.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-31845\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ChengWelcome-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ChengWelcome\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/08\/ChengWelcome.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2014\/08\/ChengWelcome-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>All the preparation and anticipation of the big move to campus has finally brought us to this day\u2014and I do mean us. It has been only weeks since the announcement that I would be president of Northern Arizona University but my husband Tom and I are already calling NAU and Flagstaff home. The transition has been an excellent reminder of the excitement and challenges experienced during this time of year by everyone who is a part of campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"color: #000000;\">For those faculty, staff and students who are returning, this is a time of renewed optimism and energy. Whether you are a second-year student or a tenured professor, change and opportunity are as familiar as old friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style4\" style=\"color: #000000;\">But nothing quite matches the life-changing experience of moving to college for the first time. To all of you, I wish the best. There will be stress and complications, but this is also a moment to savor.<\/p>\n<p>NAU is well known for being an active, diverse campus, and I encourage everyone to strive for excellence while maintaining a healthy balance in your lives. So settle in, begin to explore and get started on a great semester. I\u2019ll do the same, and I look forward to meeting each of you over the fall semester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/welcome-president-cheng\/\">by Rita Cheng, President\u00a0 All the preparation and anticipation of the big move to campus has finally brought us to this day\u2014and I do mean us. It has been only weeks since the announcement that I would be president of Northern Arizona University but my husband Tom and I are already calling NAU and Flagstaff&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":31843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-from-nau"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31842","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}