{"id":34377,"date":"2015-05-18T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=34377"},"modified":"2015-05-18T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:03:46","slug":"congratulations-spring-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/05\/18\/congratulations-spring-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations spring graduates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College honored hundreds of graduates at its spring commencement ceremony May 14 in the Frank Erwin Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet this be a starting point for greater things,\u201d said Daniel Chitty, ACC graduate and Presidential Student Achievement award winner. \u201cYour children and your loved ones look to you as an example for their own lives and will strive to accomplish greater things for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-spring-commencement1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-34379 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-spring-commencement1.png\" alt=\"2015 spring commencement\" width=\"320\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-spring-commencement1.png 689w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-spring-commencement1-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-spring-commencement1-150x140.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Chitty is one of the more than 1,400 degree\/certificate candidates for the spring\u00a0semester. Final numbers will be released in late summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe joy and pride at commencement from the students, their family, and friends is electric,\u201d says Dr. Richard Rhodes, ACC president\/CEO. \u201cThis is where you see the hope and the promise of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), and his wife Dr. Aileen Bumphus, executive director of the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence Gateway Scholars Program,\u00a0served as commencement speakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur challenge to you is to capitalize on your success by continuing to serve as an example and source of inspiration for those who come after you,\u201d Dr. Walter Bumphus told the audience of graduates and their supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe challenge you to think deeply about a promising career that continues to build a strong village,\u201d continued Dr. Aileen Bumphus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34380\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-grads.png\" alt=\"2015 grads\" width=\"393\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-grads.png 870w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-grads-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2015\/05\/2015-grads-150x110.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/>At the ceremony, ACC honored 13 high school seniors who are the first to earn associate of arts degrees through ACC\u2019s early college high school program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s world you need to be ahead. This gets us there,\u201d says Omari Henry, ECHS graduate. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy. People said what we\u2019re doing now wasn\u2019t possible, but this program gave us a strong foundation and the right motivation. We\u2019re breaking boundaries for the next group of graduates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Check out photos from the spring commencement ceremony on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/sets\/72157652462407250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College honored hundreds of graduates at its spring commencement ceremony May 14 in the Frank Erwin Center. \u201cLet this be a starting point for greater things,\u201d said Daniel Chitty, ACC graduate and Presidential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/05\/18\/congratulations-spring-graduates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":34335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,17,19],"tags":[211,256,147,69,245],"class_list":["post-34377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-bumphus","tag-chitty","tag-early-college-high-school","tag-graduation","tag-spring-commencement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377","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\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}