{"id":5399,"date":"2012-11-16T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2012-11-19T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:01:20","slug":"in-the-spotlight-nov-16-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-16-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: Nov. 16, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Kudos to these faculty, staff and students<\/strong><\/h2>\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\" target=\"_blank\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Donelle\u00a0Ruwe<\/strong>, associate professor of English, presented at the International Conference on Romanticism in Tempe, Nov. 8-11.\u00a0Her paper, &#8220;Sara Coleridge&#8217;s Flashcards: Theorizing Handmade\u00a0Literacies and Utilitarian Verse for Children,&#8221; discussed two\u00a0archives of handcrafted children&#8217;s books and teaching aids, the first\u00a0by\u00a0the minister&#8217;s wife\u00a0Jane Johnson (1706-1759) and the second by Samuel Taylor Coleridge&#8217;s daughter, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852). These collections of handmade\u00a0literacies\u00a0are the earliest\u00a0nursery libraries known to exist, and though they were\u00a0created almost a century apart, they share surprisingly similar content as well as approaches to literacy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fred Hurst<\/strong>, senior vice president for NAU-Extended Campuses, recently\u00a0spoke with <em>EDTECH<\/em> magazine about how NAU is working to reshape online learning through its personalized learning initiative. Watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtechmagazine.com\/higher\/video\/educause-2012-building-disruptive-learning-models\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sodexo<\/strong>, NAU\u2019s contracted vendor for campus dining, has been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes as an industry leader for its sustainability performance. Every year the indexes evaluate companies across all industry segments on their annual sustainability performance, analyzing specific economic, environmental and social criteria, including human resources development, corporate governance, risk management, climate change strategy and supply chain management. This is the eighth year in a row that Sodexo has been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-nov-16-2012\/\">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. Donelle\u00a0Ruwe, associate professor of English, presented at the International Conference on Romanticism in Tempe, Nov. 8-11.\u00a0Her paper, &#8220;Sara Coleridge&#8217;s Flashcards: Theorizing Handmade\u00a0Literacies and Utilitarian Verse for Children,&#8221; discussed two\u00a0archives of handcrafted children&#8217;s&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","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=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}