{"id":51044,"date":"2025-05-20T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=51044"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:09:46","slug":"acc-chancellor-heads-to-d-c-to-represent-community-college-students-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2025\/05\/20\/acc-chancellor-heads-to-d-c-to-represent-community-college-students-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Chancellor Heads to D.C. to Represent Community College Students Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) Chancellor Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) about the state of higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The State of Higher Education Hearing<br><\/strong>Date: Wednesday, May 21<br>Time: 9 a.m. CT \/ 10 a.m. ET<br>Livestream:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/the-state-of-higher-education-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/the-state-of-higher-education-2025<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Lowery-Hart will speak on behalf of students at community colleges like ACC\u2014students working jobs, raising families, and changing careers. He\u2019ll share how federal programs like Pell Grants and the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program help make college possible for millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019ll also spotlight community colleges&#8217; role in preparing students for good-paying jobs in fast-growing industries and filling critical workforce gaps across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here for more information.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) Chancellor Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) about the state of higher education. The State of Higher Education HearingDate: Wednesday, May 21Time: 9 a.m. CT \/ 10 a.m. ETLivestream: https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/the-state-of-higher-education-2025 Dr. Lowery-Hart will speak on behalf of students at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":50311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[193,1211,194,373,1208,1210,1206,1209,1207],"class_list":["post-51044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-for-you","tag-acc-chancellor","tag-and-pensions","tag-dr-russell-lowery-hart","tag-education","tag-help","tag-labor","tag-senate-hearing","tag-u-s-senate-committee-on-health","tag-washington-dc","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}