{"id":45343,"date":"2018-03-07T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45343"},"modified":"2018-03-19T19:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:36:48","slug":"acc-graduate-motivating-change-as-vice-president-of-collegiate-deca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/07\/acc-graduate-motivating-change-as-vice-president-of-collegiate-deca\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC graduate motivating change as vice president of Collegiate DECA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) business alumnus Joshua Koshy is learning a great deal about leadership since taking on the role of vice president of Collegiate DECA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had the honor to serve alongside an incredible team who has taught me the value of compromise and setting long-term\u00a0goals,\u201d says Koshy. \u201cThese traits\u00a0allow me to succeed and bring a fresh perspective to both my career and academic\u00a0journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As vice president, Koshy serves as an advocate for the community college experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most valuable asset at ACC are the people,\u201d Koshy points out. \u201cThe interactions I had each day with those individuals, including professors reshaped my world view, forced me to take my academic\u00a0journey seriously, and showed me what truly matters in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A transfer student himself, Koshy now works with ACC students to help them navigate the transfer process.<\/p>\n<p>Koshy transferred from ACC to the University of Texas at Austin where he is pursuing a public relations degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) business alumnus Joshua Koshy is learning a great deal about leadership since taking on the role of vice president of Collegiate DECA. \u201cI have had the honor to serve alongside an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/03\/07\/acc-graduate-motivating-change-as-vice-president-of-collegiate-deca\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3934,"featured_media":45344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,19],"tags":[1871,955,1544,115,1546],"class_list":["post-45343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-community-college","tag-deca","tag-joshua-koshy","tag-transfer","tag-vice-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45343","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\/3934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}