{"id":38451,"date":"2015-08-21T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=38451"},"modified":"2015-08-21T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:33:26","slug":"welcoming-students-to-their-campus-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/welcoming-students-to-their-campus-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming students to their campus home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0By Jon Merchant, associate\u00a0director of Housing and Residence Life\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As we prepare to welcome residents for the new school year, I cannot help but think how lively our campus becomes when students are moved in at\u00a0NAU.<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday, I welcomed 160 resident assistants back to campus for their fall training. During my welcome address, I asked the staff to think about what it means to be a member of a community. Specifically, what does it mean to be a member of the Lumberjack family? I asked them to think about the role they play and how they help other students find their place here.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the RAs plays a critical role in creating community for our residential students. They play a role in building community through their attitudes, through programs and events, policy enforcement,\u00a0crisis situations and through conversations and interactions with residents.<\/p>\n<p>Creating community isn\u2019t always easy, but I reminded the RAs they have lots of support and many resources to forge a community that their residents will come to identify as their home.<\/p>\n<p>NAU Move-in Day will begin at 9 a.m., Thursday Aug. 27.\u00a0\u00a0Students and families will be welcomed to campus\u00a0by Housing and Residence Life staff and will receive move-in assistance from student volunteers known as Welcome Jacks. Students will also\u00a0meet their new roommates and connect with others on their floor. They will also unpack \u2013 creating their space and creating their home.<\/p>\n<p>From day one, we want our residential students to feel like they are part of\u00a0a vibrant community that fosters personal growth and which enhances the student experience. Living on campus is truly an amazing opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>More information about NAU Move-Day is <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/residence-life\/move-in\/fall-2015-move-in\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/welcoming-students-to-their-campus-home\/\">\u00a0 \u00a0By Jon Merchant, associate\u00a0director of Housing and Residence Life\u00a0 As we prepare to welcome residents for the new school year, I cannot help but think how lively our campus becomes when students are moved in at\u00a0NAU. This past Sunday, I welcomed 160 resident assistants back to campus for their fall training. During my welcome&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":38452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38451","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\/38451","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=38451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}