{"id":44347,"date":"2016-06-15T07:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=44347"},"modified":"2016-06-15T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:01:03","slug":"scholarships-honor-governor-raul-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/scholarships-honor-governor-raul-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarships honor Governor Raul H. Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new scholarships at Northern Arizona University are honoring the late <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/raul-hector-castro-governor-ambassador-and-education-proponent-dies-at-98\/\">Gov. Ra\u00fal H. Castro<\/a>, an alumnus and the state\u2019s only Latino governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthern Arizona University is proud to honor\u00a0Governor Castro,\u00a0one of our most famous and accomplished alumni, and carry on his values for equal education opportunity, determination to overcome adversity and simple kindness,\u201d said NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>. \u201cWe are grateful that Governor Castro\u2019s daughter, Beth, who also attended NAU, was the inspiration behind creating two scholarships in remembrance of her father. Governor Castro\u2019s legacy is strong and ever present at NAU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevictoriafoundation.org\/About-Us\/AboutUs.asp\">Victoria Foundation<\/a>\u00a0recently gave $100,000 to NAU, and endowed the\u00a0Honorable Ra\u00fal H. Castro Memorial Scholarship in Politics and International Affairs. The second scholarship is in the College of Education.\u00a0Donations to support the scholarships may be made by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.nau.edu\/giving.aspx\">alumni.nau.edu\/giving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My father did not pursue his dreams because he wanted to leave a legacy,\u201d Beth said. \u201cHe did it because he believed in serving his community. H<span class=\"s1\">is achievements in life were amazing, but I know that he was the most proud of his ability to connect with young people and talk to them about the importance of earning a good education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ariz. Gov. Doug Ducey recently declared June 12 &#8220;Ra\u00fal H. Castro Day&#8221; in honor of what would have been the governor&#8217;s\u00a0100th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/scholarships-honor-governor-raul-castro\/\">Two new scholarships at Northern Arizona University are honoring the late Gov. Ra\u00fal H. Castro, an alumnus and the state\u2019s only Latino governor. \u201cNorthern Arizona University is proud to honor\u00a0Governor Castro,\u00a0one of our most famous and accomplished alumni, and carry on his values for equal education opportunity, determination to overcome adversity and simple kindness,\u201d said&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":36105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44347","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\/44347","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=44347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}