{"id":52363,"date":"2018-09-06T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T22:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=52363"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T22:09:32","slug":"political-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/political-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder to campus community on policy regarding political activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the political campaign season underway, members of the campus community are encouraged to review NAU\u2019s policies for political activities and support of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>As a university faculty or staff member, you can lawfully campaign for or against candidates and initiatives on your own time and without using state resources, including NAU email; you must act individually and not suggest you represent the position of NAU.<\/p>\n<p>University lobbying activities are limited to individuals appointed by the president and registered with the state.<\/p>\n<p>Employees\u00a0who plan to campaign for public office or are elected to public office must\u00a0request\u00a0personal leave if\u00a0campaign\u00a0activities or the public service role interferes with performing assigned NAU duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hr.nau.edu\/ext\/node\/10256\">university\u2019s guidelines can be viewed online<\/a>\u00a0and are determined by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azleg.state.az.us\/arizonarevisedstatutes.asp\">Arizona Revised Statutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/political-activities\/\">With the political campaign season underway, members of the campus community are encouraged to review NAU\u2019s policies for political activities and support of candidates. As a university faculty or staff member, you can lawfully campaign for or against candidates and initiatives on your own time and without using state resources, including NAU email; you must&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":52364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52363","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\/52363","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=52363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}