{"id":31598,"date":"2015-02-06T09:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=31598"},"modified":"2015-02-06T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T14:52:56","slug":"veterans-resource-center-at-highland-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/06\/veterans-resource-center-at-highland-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Resource Center at Highland now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/10\/veterans-resource-center-banner-960-2.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29667\" style=\"border: 0px none\" title=\"veterans-resource-center-banner-960-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2014\/10\/veterans-resource-center-banner-960-2.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Austin Community College&#8217;s Veterans Resource Center at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/locations\/campuses\/highland-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC Highland Campus<\/a> is now open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. -5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The center offers the college&#8217;s 2,200 military and veteran students a central, one-stop location for obtaining essential support services such as VA certification and advising for VA benefits. The 4,000-square-foot center also features a lounge area where students can connect with peers and participate in veteran-specific activities.<\/p>\n<p>The Resource Center is just one of several services and programs available to ACC military and veteran students. Others include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/support-and-services\/services-for-students\/military-and-veterans\/on-campus-assistance\/vetsuccess-on-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VetSuccess on Campus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/support-and-services\/services-for-students\/military-and-veterans\/service-credit\/college-credit-for-heroes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Credit for Heroes<\/a>, and the annual &#8220;From Humvee to ACC&#8221; resource fair. In addition, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/index.php\/2014\/09\/25\/acc-receives-1-1m-grant-to-expand-programs-for-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Training Program<\/a> provides free training to qualified local veterans in 14 high-demand information technology fields.<\/p>\n<p>The college also has veterans resource offices at Round Rock, Northridge, and Riverside campuses.<\/p>\n<p>Visit ACC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/support-and-services\/services-for-students\/military-and-veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Military &amp; Veterans<\/a> webpage to learn more or contact an ACC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/support-and-services\/services-for-students\/military-and-veterans\/on-campus-assistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Veterans Affairs Specialist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College&#8217;s Veterans Resource Center at ACC Highland Campus is now open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. -5 p.m. The center offers the college&#8217;s 2,200 military and veteran students a central, one-stop location for obtaining essential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/06\/veterans-resource-center-at-highland-now-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}