{"id":4745,"date":"2021-04-16T19:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=4745"},"modified":"2023-12-01T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:37:49","slug":"spc-president-elected-to-american-association-of-community-colleges-board-aacc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2021\/04\/16\/spc-president-elected-to-american-association-of-community-colleges-board-aacc\/","title":{"rendered":"AACC Elected SPC President to the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.nche.edu\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Association of Community Colleges<\/a> (AACC) is known to be the voice of America\u2019s community colleges. They represent and advocate for nearly 1,200 associate-degree granting institutions and their students, whose combined enrollment tops over 12 million students\u2014almost half of all U.S. undergraduates. Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Williams<\/a> was elected to serve as a representative on their Board of Directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the AACC\u2019s Legislative and regulatory positions include FAFSA simplification, making short-term workforce programs Pell Grant eligible, and keeping community college affordable and accessible to all. With such an alignment of interests, Williams said she is excited to take a leadership role with the organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI&#8217;m so honored to be elected by the AACC to represent their board,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThis appointment allows SPC to be a part of an important national conversation, and I look forward to lending my own voice to that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more about the AACC and its new Board of Directors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccdaily.com\/2021\/04\/rhodes-ready-to-lead-aacc-board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is known to be the voice of America\u2019s community colleges. They represent and advocate for nearly 1,200 associate-degree granting institutions and their students, whose combined enrollment tops over 12 million students\u2014almost half of all U.S. undergraduates. Recently, President Williams was elected to serve as a representative on their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":4755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-we-are-spc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5283,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions\/5283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}