{"id":34090,"date":"2014-12-18T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=34090"},"modified":"2014-12-18T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T20:40:00","slug":"nau-joins-alternative-credit-consortium-benefit-nontraditional-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-joins-alternative-credit-consortium-benefit-nontraditional-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU joins alternative credit consortium to benefit nontraditional students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University is participating in a pilot project through ACE\u2014the American Council on Education\u2014intended to make it easier for students to transfer credits from a pool of lower division general education online courses.<\/p>\n<p>NAU is one of 25 institutions in the project, which was made possible by a $1.89 million grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>First-generation, low-income students are among those expected to benefit the most.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.nau.edu\/Blog\/NAU-Partakes-in-ACE-Alt-Credit-Project+63\/\">Read more about the project.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-joins-alternative-credit-consortium-benefit-nontraditional-students\/\">Northern Arizona University is participating in a pilot project through ACE\u2014the American Council on Education\u2014intended to make it easier for students to transfer credits from a pool of lower division general education online courses. NAU is one of 25 institutions in the project, which was made possible by a $1.89 million grant from the Bill&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":34089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[966,315,38,24],"class_list":["post-34090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics","tag-ace","tag-bill-melinda-gates-foundation","tag-nau","tag-northern-arizona-university"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34090","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=34090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}