{"id":42493,"date":"2016-03-25T14:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=42493"},"modified":"2016-03-25T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T21:29:13","slug":"president-cheng-visits-elected-officials-alumni-nations-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/president-cheng-visits-elected-officials-alumni-nations-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"President Cheng meets with elected officials, alumni in nation&#8217;s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42573\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42573 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dc-visit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"President Cheng DC alumni visit\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/dc-visit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2016\/03\/dc-visit.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rita Cheng met with alumni during a visit to Washington, D.C., that also included meetings with Congressional delegates and federal agency leaders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>\u00a0engaged in advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C., this week, including visits with Arizona&#8217;s Congressional delegation and federal agency administrators. The meetings were\u00a0related to university\u00a0priorities and funding for research, including forest health initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our relationships with members of the delegation\u00a0and federal agency leaders are an important part of NAU&#8217;s success,&#8221; Cheng\u00a0said. &#8220;Our conversations provided opportunities to share the significant impact our university has in Arizona, the nation and the world. And it was wonderful to visit with Lumberjacks across the country who\u00a0are deeply connected to NAU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president also visited with alumni, donors and parents of current and prospective students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/president-cheng-visits-elected-officials-alumni-nations-capital\/\">NAU President Rita Cheng\u00a0engaged in advocacy efforts in Washington, D.C., this week, including visits with Arizona&#8217;s Congressional delegation and federal agency administrators. The meetings were\u00a0related to university\u00a0priorities and funding for research, including forest health initiatives. &#8220;Our relationships with members of the delegation\u00a0and federal agency leaders are an important part of NAU&#8217;s success,&#8221; Cheng\u00a0said. &#8220;Our conversations&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":42573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42493","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\/42493","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=42493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}