{"id":55731,"date":"2019-05-16T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T16:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=55731"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:21:06","slug":"in-the-spotlight-may-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-may-17-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Spotlight: May 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0online submission form.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong> has been named to an NCAA working group that will consider legislation about the name, image and likeness rights of student-athletes. She is one of 19 members, including other university presidents, conference commissioners, athletics directors and student-athletes.<\/li>\r\n<li>Campus dining director <strong>Ben Hartley<\/strong> was one of 2019\u2019s Heroes of Everyday Life by the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation. He received a $5,000 award to be donated in his name, which went to Louie\u2019s Cupboard.<\/li>\r\n<li>OnlineColleges.com ranked <strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> third out of almost 1,000 universities in a study assessing online colleges that offer the best financial aid opportunities to students. The rankings evaluated schools based on the net price of education, median debt of graduates, average aid award to students, the percent of students receiving institutional aid and financial aid by income level.<\/li>\r\n<li>NAU\u2019s <strong>Hotel and Restaurant Management program<\/strong> ranked No. 5 in OnlineDegrees.com\u2019s list of best school to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in hospitality and culinary online. The rankings were based on tuition, student-faculty ratio and student services.<\/li>\r\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program<\/strong>\u00a0received the\u00a0Outstanding Achievement &amp; Contribution Organization Award\u00a0on the Commission on the Status of Women. Several faculty from the program also received accolades:\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Program faculty member <strong>Meredith Heller<\/strong> won the\u00a0SBS Early Career Award.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Sanjam Ahluwalia<\/strong>\u00a0won the coveted\u00a0Axe\u00a0in the\u00a0Great Post-Apocalyptic Survival Debate. Ahluwalia persuasively argued that given the intersectional, interdisciplinary and transnational focus of WGS scholarship, this discipline would be well suited to shoulder the greatest responsibility of training the next generation of scientists, politicians, artists and scholars.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Tyler Barnard<\/strong>, WGS\/ES administrative assistant, won the\u00a0LGBTQ Commission Award.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-spotlight-may-17-2019\/\">Kudos to these faculty, staff and programs 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. President Rita Cheng has been named to an NCAA working group that will consider legislation about the name, image and likeness rights of student-athletes. 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