{"id":9524,"date":"2008-09-04T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=9524"},"modified":"2013-05-13T15:41:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:41:26","slug":"former-colorado-governor-to-lead-discussion-of-crisis-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/former-colorado-governor-to-lead-discussion-of-crisis-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Colorado governor to lead discussion of crisis in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0will join former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer along with fellow Arizona university presidents and members of the Arizona Board of Regents for a discussion Sept. 11 on the crisis in education in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Romer, current leader of a new grassroots campaign called ED in &#8217;08, will speak on the state of education at 5:30 p.m. in the Evelyn Smith Music Hall at Arizona State University in Tempe.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Coalition for Solutions Through Higher Education, Romer&#8217;s presentation will precede the Arizona premiere of the documentary\u00a0<em>Two Million Minutes<\/em>. The film chronicles the lives of six students from China, India and the United States and reveals how each of them spends the 2 million minutes from completing eighth grade to preparing for college and a career.<\/p>\n<p>The premiere will feature opening remarks by Haeger; Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University; Robert Shelton, president of the University of Arizona; Fred DuVal of the Arizona Board of Regents; and Fred Boice, president of the Arizona Board of Regents.<\/p>\n<p>The hourlong documentary will be shown at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Sept. 11 event is intended to raise awareness of the critical role higher education plays in Arizona&#8217;s social and economic prosperity and to generate support for a statewide coalition calling for a renewed commitment to academic excellence.<\/p>\n<p>NAU faculty, staff and students are invited to the event and can RSVP\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highereducationsolution.com\/getinvolved\/index.cfm?ID=74\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. RSVP guests will receive first seating.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highereducationsolution.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.highereducationsolution.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/former-colorado-governor-to-lead-discussion-of-crisis-in-education\/\">President John Haeger\u00a0will join former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer along with fellow Arizona university presidents and members of the Arizona Board of Regents for a discussion Sept. 11 on the crisis in education in the United States. Romer, current leader of a new grassroots campaign called ED in &#8217;08, will speak on the state of&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524","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=9524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}