{"id":41736,"date":"2016-02-12T10:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=41736"},"modified":"2016-02-12T10:53:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T17:53:58","slug":"president-cheng-speaks-to-house-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/president-cheng-speaks-to-house-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"President Cheng speaks to House committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong> presented to members of the Arizona House of Representatives Government and Higher Education Committee this week in Phoenix. The standing committee is chaired by Flagstaff Rep. Bob Thorpe.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng discussed NAU\u2019s fiscal status and policy initiatives, outlining the changes in state appropriations over the last seven years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2008, state appropriations comprised 40 percent of our operating budget, and tuition and fees represented about 25 percent. Today those numbers are more than reversed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The president said\u00a0the state\u2019s budget decisions are critical to NAU as it looks to meet workforce needs and positively impact the economic vitality of the region and state.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng\u00a0also visited with four Lumberjacks currently in the <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/university-college\/legislative-internship\/\">Arizona Legislative Internship<\/a> program at the capitol. The program provides undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to work with the State Senate, House of Representatives, Governor\u2019s Office and the Arizona Supreme Court. Undergraduates <strong>Bryanna McDaniel<\/strong> and <strong>Alexandria Saquella<\/strong> are interning with the Senate, <strong>Shirley Springer<\/strong> is interning with the House of Representatives and <strong>Tyler Thorp<\/strong> is placed with the Arizona Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/president-cheng-speaks-to-house-committee\/\">NAU President Rita Cheng presented to members of the Arizona House of Representatives Government and Higher Education Committee this week in Phoenix. The standing committee is chaired by Flagstaff Rep. Bob Thorpe. Cheng discussed NAU\u2019s fiscal status and policy initiatives, outlining the changes in state appropriations over the last seven years. \u201cIn 2008, state appropriations&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":41738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41736","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\/41736","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=41736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}