{"id":75153,"date":"2025-07-10T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=75153"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T19:27:20","slug":"steady-steps-bold-moves-our-year-at-nau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/steady-steps-bold-moves-our-year-at-nau\/","title":{"rendered":"Steady steps. Bold moves. Our year at NAU."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 8, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Dear Lumberjacks,<\/p>\n<p>As this academic year comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on what it means to lead a public university during a time of complexity, change, and deep need.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll take a couple of minutes to watch the short video below\u2014a collection of moments from the past year that remind us who we are and why our work matters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steady Steps. Bold Moves. Our Year at NAU.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d8Di9ZmFlMI?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<p>Thank you for everything you&#8217;ve done to make this a remarkable year. Your work has helped us realize our vision to be a preeminent engine of opportunity, vehicle of upward mobility, and driver of social impact\u2014and your dedication has a lasting and transformative impact on the lives of our students.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy a well-earned break, and I look forward to all we&#8217;ll accomplish together in the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>With gratitude and pride,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63892\" src=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wordpresst\/uploads\/sites\/153\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/President_signature_blue.jpg\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 Luis Cruz Rivera\" width=\"153\" height=\"102\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/steady-steps-bold-moves-our-year-at-nau\/\">May 8, 2025 Dear Lumberjacks, As this academic year comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on what it means to lead a public university during a time of complexity, change, and deep need. I hope you&#8217;ll take a couple of minutes to watch the short video below\u2014a collection of moments from the past&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1826],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-messages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75153","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}