{"id":44604,"date":"2016-07-19T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=44604"},"modified":"2016-07-19T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:10:37","slug":"spotlight-july-20-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-july-20-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: July 20, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h3>\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>Manley Begay<\/strong>, professor of applied indigenous studies, was selected to serve on the\u00a0Council of Economic Advisors to advise the president and vice president of the Navajo Nation on economic development activities.\u00a0The Navajo CEA will provide objective empirical research and assist with the president\u2019s annual economic report.\u00a0A citizen of the Navajo Nation, Begay specializes in indigenous nation-building, education, and Din\u00e9 history and philosophy. He also is co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.<\/li>\n<li>NAU alumna <strong>Jeri Williams<\/strong> was named the new Phoenix Police Chief earlier this month. She\u00a0will begin her new role in October and\u00a0will be the first female to hold that job in the city&#8217;s history. Williams has been the chief of police with the Oxnard Police Department since January 2011.\u00a0Williams holds a master&#8217;s degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University and is pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-july-20-2016\/\">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. Manley Begay, professor of applied indigenous studies, was selected to serve on the\u00a0Council of Economic Advisors to advise the president and vice president of the Navajo Nation&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604","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=44604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}