{"id":33600,"date":"2014-11-13T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=33600"},"modified":"2014-11-13T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:12:04","slug":"nau-recognized-top-college-native-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-recognized-top-college-native-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU recognized as a top college for Native Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University has been named one of the country\u2019s top educational options for Native Americans, as reported in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society\u2019s 2014-15 College Guide.<\/p>\n<p>In its annual list of the nation\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/pohlyco\/woc_2014college\/#\/26\">top 200 schools<\/a>, published last month in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aises.org\/news\/woc\">Winds of Change<\/a><\/em>, the society looked for colleges\u00a0&#8220;where American Indians are going in significant numbers and where the community, Native programs and support are strong enough for these students to enjoy college and stay on to graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAU was recognized among the best based on Native student enrollment and for having strong programs, support and community in place for students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInclusion on this list reaffirms to the public that Northern Arizona University provides the academic support and a campus culture that fosters the success of its Native American students,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Joseph Martin<\/strong>, special adviser to the president on\u00a0Native American Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>This year the list\u00a0also included\u00a0data measuring undergraduate degrees in science, engineering, technology and mathematics-related disciplines for all students and for American Indians and for the six-year graduation rates of all students and for American Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-recognized-top-college-native-americans\/\">Northern Arizona University has been named one of the country\u2019s top educational options for Native Americans, as reported in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society\u2019s 2014-15 College Guide. In its annual list of the nation\u2019s top 200 schools, published last month in\u00a0Winds of Change, the society looked for colleges\u00a0&#8220;where American Indians are going in&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":33604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600","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=33600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}