{"id":5005,"date":"2023-04-03T19:45:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2024-02-08T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:14:31","slug":"april-is-the-time-to-celebrate-community-colleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2023\/04\/03\/april-is-the-time-to-celebrate-community-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Community College Month in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April is Community College Month, so it\u2019s time to celebrate all that they do for our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2023\/11\/15\/spc-and-pcs-partner-for-pinellas-together\/\">communities<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1927, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St. Petersburg College<\/a> has offered a means to better lives through education. Today, we serve Pinellas County through our <a href=\"https:\/\/newsspc.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/27\/st-petersburg-college-ranked-among-best-online-programs-in-2023-u-s-news-world-report-study\/\">award-winning programs<\/a> &#8211; more than 80 of which are offered fully online &#8211; as well as high-demand workforce certifications and short-term programs. SPC is also a large <a href=\"https:\/\/newsspc.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/19\/spc-contributes-more-than-1-billion-in-economic-impact-to-pinellas-county\/\">contributor to the economic health of the community<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But much of what community colleges offer is non-academic support, like SPC&#8217;s First to Finished, a group that seeks to help first-generation students navigate college and make sure they have the resources to successfully finish their degrees or certificate programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another way SPC is serving the community is through a new scholarship. The Promise Scholarship is offered to the 2023 graduates from a select group of local high schools, in order to assist graduates who need help paying for a degree or credentials that would land them good-paying jobs and fulfilling careers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Promise Scholarship covers tuition and fees &#8211; after any grants or scholarships a student receives &#8211; at SPC through a student\u2019s graduation from an associate degree or a financial-aid-eligible certificate program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPC President Dr. Tonjua Williams said the College is dedicated to its mission to empower our students and community to achieve success and economic mobility through academic excellence and engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe hope we can change some lives for the better and make some dreams come true,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Community College Month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":743,"featured_media":5007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[14,25,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-spc-inspires","category-we-are-spc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","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\/743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}