{"id":5387,"date":"2025-01-13T20:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/president\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:25:14","slug":"have-a-great-first-day-of-school-lumberjacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/news\/have-a-great-first-day-of-school-lumberjacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a great first day of school, Lumberjacks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back, Jacks!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season, filled with joy and relaxation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we officially return to classes in Flagstaff, statewide, and online. Before we dive into the new semester, let&#8217;s take a moment to reflect on the many historic and memorable highlights of last semester, including our celebration of 125 years of excellence at NAU.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Cruz Rivera&#039;s Fall 2024 Recap\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATWMJZjKR1c?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the collective contributions of our incredible Lumberjack community, I\u2019m confident that this semester and 2025 will be our most outstanding year yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wishing you the best, and go Jacks!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Luis Cruz Rivera<br>President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S.:\u00a0The \u201cLumberjack Roots\u201d song that plays during the video is the result of my dabbling in some AI projects over the holiday break. It was a joint effort between me, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Suno. <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/song\/6882b7ad-3c87-4405-9aa9-43402864dfc8\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/song\/6882b7ad-3c87-4405-9aa9-43402864dfc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the full song<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back, Jacks!&nbsp; I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season, filled with joy and relaxation.&nbsp; Today, we officially return to classes in Flagstaff, statewide, and online. Before we dive into the new semester, let&#8217;s take a moment to reflect on the many historic and memorable highlights of last semester, including our celebration of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":752,"featured_media":4513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}