{"id":45135,"date":"2016-09-20T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45135"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:03:01","slug":"cheng-cetys-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/cheng-cetys-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"President Cheng discusses innovation in education during CETYS anniversary seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>\u00a0attended the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cetysinnovationseminar.com\/\">International Seminar on Innovation in Higher Education<\/a> as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cetysinnovationseminar.com\/about\">CETYS University<\/a> 55th Anniversary in Mexico this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Northern Arizona University recently entered a <a href=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/nau-signs-mou-cetys-cross-border-education\/#.V-FVWpMrLOR\">partnership with CETYS<\/a> to advance educational pathways for students at both institutions including a 4+1 pathway to a master&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;NAU has\u00a0invested significantly in agreements with many partner institutions, including CETYS University, to ensure it is\u00a0providing a pathway to higher education that students of all ages and in many locations want\u2013a pathway that is flexible, affordable and aligned with their lifestyle and location,&#8221; Cheng said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During the event, Cheng also participated in a panel session entitled\u00a0Innovation: Alternative Education Models and Technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;It is impossible to recruit and retain students using only the methods of the past. Students need and expect more fluidity in how they make their decisions, and NAU has evaluated new technology and innovative education delivery models for decades,&#8221; Cheng said during the panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She added that it isn&#8217;t just about connectivity. &#8220;Programs and services must evolve in a similar manner. That\u2019s why we continue to develop programs that are on the cutting-edge of change, and build faculty and support programs to enhance the student experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other panel participants\u00a0included\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Diego Mazo, President, CEIPA Business School Columbia,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Aimin Guo, Vice President Academic Affairs, SIAS International University, China, and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Arturo Cherbowski Lask, Director, Universia\/Santander Universidades, Mexico\/Iberoamerica.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/cheng-cetys-anniversary\/\">President Rita Cheng\u00a0attended the\u00a0International Seminar on Innovation in Higher Education as part of the\u00a0CETYS University 55th Anniversary in Mexico this week.\u00a0 Northern Arizona University recently entered a partnership with CETYS to advance educational pathways for students at both institutions including a 4+1 pathway to a master&#8217;s degree. &#8220;NAU has\u00a0invested significantly in agreements with many partner&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":45134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45135","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\/45135","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=45135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}