{"id":44909,"date":"2016-08-29T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=44909"},"modified":"2016-09-06T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:50:06","slug":"nau-kicks-off-fall-semester-largest-freshman-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-kicks-off-fall-semester-largest-freshman-class\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU kicks off the fall semester with largest freshman class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the\u00a0first day of classes, Northern Arizona University is recording its highest total enrollment for\u00a0the fall semester and the largest freshman class in school history.<\/p>\n<p>NAU\u2019s overall student population is 30,000, which includes Flagstaff, community campuses across the state and online students. The university welcomed <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/nau-welcomes-new-returning-lumberjacks\/\">5,500 first-time freshmen this fall<\/a>, an increase of nearly 11 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted by the number and quality of students who continue to choose NAU in Flagstaff and throughout the state,\u201d said NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>. \u201cOur new and continuing students are proof that the NAU reputation of student success and a high-quality, personal learning experience is growing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAU will release the official 21-day count enrollment numbers in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-kicks-off-fall-semester-largest-freshman-class\/\">On the\u00a0first day of classes, Northern Arizona University is recording its highest total enrollment for\u00a0the fall semester and the largest freshman class in school history. NAU\u2019s overall student population is 30,000, which includes Flagstaff, community campuses across the state and online students. The university welcomed 5,500 first-time freshmen this fall, an increase of nearly 11&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":44910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44909","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\/44909","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=44909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}