{"id":44928,"date":"2016-09-01T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=44928"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:52:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T03:52:02","slug":"spotlight-sept-1-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-sept-1-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Sept. 1, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/p>\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>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> was recently ranked as No. 1\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradsource.com\/online-masters-degree\/english-programs\/\">Best Online Master&#8217;s Degree Program in English<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gradsource.com\/\">GradSource.com<\/a>. The rankings, which evaluated thousands of schools, were determined based off an array of factors that include tuition, flexibility and student success.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatcollegedeals.net\/rankings\/best-deals-colleges-disability-studies\/\">Recently ranked by Great College Deals<\/a>, <strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> was recognized as having one of the best deals for small colleges for disability studies. Universities across the United States were evaluated, awarding points based on the presence of a comprehensive disability studies curriculum, scholar-level faculty in the field, campus organizations or events dedicated to disability education, internships or scholarships in the field and valued additional offerings. Noted was NAU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/sbs\/ihd\/programs\/disability-studies-minor\/\">disability studies undergraduate minor<\/a> which addresses the state of disability in society and how the concept of \u201cnormal\u201d has shaped perceptions of the disabled person.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spotlight-sept-1-2016\/\">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. Northern Arizona University was recently ranked as No. 1\u00a0for Best Online Master&#8217;s Degree Program in English\u00a0by GradSource.com. The rankings, which evaluated thousands of schools, were determined based&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"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-44928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}