{"id":40043,"date":"2015-10-30T11:37:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=40043"},"modified":"2015-10-30T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:39:52","slug":"in-the-spotlight-oct-30-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-oct-30-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Oct. 30, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\"><strong>Inside@nau.edu<\/strong><\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/news-tip\/\"><strong>online submission form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Vincent<\/strong>, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, is the 2015 recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azhumanities.org\/announcing-the-2015-arizona-humanities-awards-recipients\/\">Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award<\/a>. The Arizona humanities award recognizes those who\u00a0have made a lasting contribution to the humanities in their communities. During his 35-year career, Vincent has introduced scholars and community members to the beauty and richness of 17th century French literature and culture, which is his area of focus.<\/li>\n<li>NAU\u00a0recently received accolades for its online programs. The university ranks 16th among the nation\u2019s best online bachelor\u2019s degrees in sociology, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestschools.org\/rankings\/best-online-bachelor-of-sociology-degree-programs\/\">TheBestSchools.org<\/a>. NAU also made\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/superscholar.org\/\">SuperScholar.org<\/a>\u2019s list for top online\u00a0master&#8217;s programs in communication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-oct-30-2015\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use our\u00a0online submission form. Michael Vincent, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, is the 2015 recipient of the Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award. The Arizona humanities award&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40043","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=40043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}