{"id":52084,"date":"2026-02-20T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/?p=52084"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:12:59","slug":"state-of-acc-free-tuition-career-pathways-more-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/2026\/02\/20\/state-of-acc-free-tuition-career-pathways-more-support\/","title":{"rendered":"State of ACC | Free Tuition, Career Pathways &amp; More Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Austin Community College shared updates at its annual State of ACC event on Thursday, February 19, at the Rio Grande Campus. Several key highlights directly impact students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DYK:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nearly 10,000 students are now enrolled through ACC\u2019s Free Tuition programs, helping more Central Texas students afford college and stay on track to graduate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019re collaborating with more regional employers to strengthen learning training in high-demand careers, including infrastructure, construction, and advanced manufacturing. Those partnerships are bringing new apprenticeship and work-based learning opportunities for our students so you can get real-world experience with local employers.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We\u2019re doing more to help you get the support you need in and out of the classroom. There are food pantries at every campus, partnerships to help connect you with housing, and mental health services designed to remove barriers that can make it hard to complete your education.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The College is also integrating AI skills across programs to help students prepare for a technology-driven job market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about ACC\u2019s plans and student initiatives at <a href=\"http:\/\/austincc.edu\/stateofacc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austincc.edu\/stateofacc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College shared updates at its annual State of ACC event on Thursday, February 19, at the Rio Grande Campus. Several key highlights directly impact students. DYK:&nbsp; Learn more about ACC\u2019s plans and student initiatives at austincc.edu\/stateofacc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":52085,"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":[174,961,217,1100,128],"class_list":["post-52084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-for-you","tag-career","tag-construction","tag-free-tuition","tag-state-of-acc","tag-student-support","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\/52084","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=52084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.austincc.edu\/infohub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}