{"id":38037,"date":"2015-07-24T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=38037"},"modified":"2015-07-24T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T20:49:29","slug":"navajo-nation-welcomes-nau-president-rita-cheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/navajo-nation-welcomes-nau-president-rita-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Nation welcomes NAU President Rita Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38044\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38044\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_4337-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"NAU President Rita Cheng and Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/07\/IMG_4337-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/07\/IMG_4337-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAU President Rita Cheng met with Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye in Window Rock on July 20.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>\u00a0visited Window Rock this week to meet with Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye, Vice President Jonathan Nez and Speaker LoRenzo Bates.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng also addressed delegates during a full tribal council meeting, highlighting NAU&#8217;s student support services, outreach efforts and opportunities for partnership between the university and Navajo Nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a time of budget cutbacks, NAU&#8217;s deep historic commitment to Native American students will remain constant,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am heartened by the tremendous efforts and commitment of our faculty and staff, and we are looking at existing services to ensure we are taking a comprehensive, interconnected approach to student success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cheng shared that NAU tops the list\u00a0among all four-year public institutions in graduating Native American students with master&#8217;s degrees, is third highest in enrollment at the graduate level and is 12th for overall enrollment nationwide. She also discussed\u00a0existing partnerships between the university and Navajo Nation, including\u00a0workforce development with NAU&#8217;s Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and leadership training and certificate programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/navajo-nation-welcomes-nau-president-rita-cheng\/\">NAU President Rita Cheng\u00a0visited Window Rock this week to meet with Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye, Vice President Jonathan Nez and Speaker LoRenzo Bates. Cheng also addressed delegates during a full tribal council meeting, highlighting NAU&#8217;s student support services, outreach efforts and opportunities for partnership between the university and Navajo Nation. &#8220;In a time of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":38044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38037","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\/38037","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=38037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}