{"id":48793,"date":"2017-09-20T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=48793"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:07:47","slug":"personalized-learning-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/personalized-learning-pbs\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU&#8217;s Personalized Learning program highlighted on PBS (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, affiliates from the PBS NewsHour visited Northern Arizona University&#8217;s campus to talk to <strong>President Rita Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Cori Gordon<\/strong>, coordinator for the Personalized Learning program, and several students about its highly-acclaimed competency-based degree program. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/personalized-learning-can-put-college-reach-nontraditional-students\/\">The story can be found online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personalized Learning has graduated more than 200 students since it was launched in 2013, with about 900 students actively enrolled in the program. In addition to offering bachelor&#8217;s degrees in liberal arts, computer information technology, small business administration and management, the program also offers a RN to BSN nursing program, with plans to add master&#8217;s degrees in computer information technology and nursing by fall 2018.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How \u2018personalized learning\u2019 can put college in reach for nontraditional students\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u4pRewWZIYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/personalized-learning-pbs\/\">Last spring, affiliates from the PBS NewsHour visited Northern Arizona University&#8217;s campus to talk to President Rita Cheng, Cori Gordon, coordinator for the Personalized Learning program, and several students about its highly-acclaimed competency-based degree program. The story can be found online. Personalized Learning has graduated more than 200 students since it was launched in 2013,&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":48794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793","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=48793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}