{"id":76765,"date":"2026-01-12T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=76765"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:01:40","slug":"spring-2026-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spring-2026-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Spring 2026 semester, Lumberjacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Dear Lumberjacks,<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, and welcome to the Spring 2026 semester at Northern Arizona University!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you had time over the break to rest and recharge. As classes begin today, our NAU community remains focused on what matters most: excellence in teaching and learning, impactful scholarship and creative activity, meaningful engagement, and advancing opportunity in Arizona and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>To our faculty and staff, thank you for the dedication and care you bring to your work every day. To our students, welcome to what is sure to be a great semester\u2014filled with learning, discovery, and memorable experiences.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A message from President Cruz Rivera\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/corqEvkT9EE?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><span data-teams=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span>Here\u2019s to a great Spring 2026!<\/p>\n<p>Go Jacks!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/spring-2026-welcome\/\">January 12, 2026 Dear Lumberjacks, Happy New Year, and welcome to the Spring 2026 semester at Northern Arizona University! I hope you had time over the break to rest and recharge. As classes begin today, our NAU community remains focused on what matters most: excellence in teaching and learning, impactful scholarship and creative activity, meaningful&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-76765","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\/76765","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=76765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}