{"id":34671,"date":"2015-01-30T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=34671"},"modified":"2015-01-30T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T20:14:09","slug":"cheng-visits-with-state-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/cheng-visits-with-state-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"President visits with state lawmakers, donors in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <strong>Rita Cheng <\/strong>made the most of a 48-hour-visit in Phoenix this week, engaging in one-on-one discussions <sub>\u00ad<\/sub>with Gov. Doug Ducey and several Arizona representatives and senators.<\/p>\n<p>It was Cheng&#8217;s first meeting with the\u00a0governor, who posted a photo and thanked her via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dougducey\/status\/560590418903982080\">Twitter<\/a> for a productive meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng spoke to\u00a0the House of Representatives Government and Higher Education Committee, chaired by Rep. Bob Thorpe, on the university\u2019s strategic goals, the metrics\u00a0established to measure NAU&#8217;s outcomes and opportunities to connect those outcomes to\u00a0state funding appropriations. Cheng also discussed\u00a0how\u00a0the relationship between the university and the state is defined and the regulatory reform agenda proposed by the Arizona Board of Regents and university presidents. Eileen Klein, ABOR president, Michael Crow, Arizona State University president, and Ann Weaver Hart, University of Arizona president, also spoke during the visit with the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng welcomed to the Phoenix Biomedical Campus the board of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, a nonprofit that last year <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/virginia-g-piper-charitable-trust-awards-1-5-million-nau-expansion-physician-assistant-program\/#.VMvOOsaq7cY\">gifted $1.5 million to expand NAU\u2019s physician assistant program<\/a> in downtown Phoenix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/cheng-visits-with-state-lawmakers\/\">President Rita Cheng made the most of a 48-hour-visit in Phoenix this week, engaging in one-on-one discussions \u00adwith Gov. Doug Ducey and several Arizona representatives and senators. It was Cheng&#8217;s first meeting with the\u00a0governor, who posted a photo and thanked her via Twitter for a productive meeting. Cheng spoke to\u00a0the House of Representatives Government and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":34675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34671","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\/34671","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=34671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}