{"id":48011,"date":"2022-12-07T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=48011"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:48:34","slug":"acc-highland-will-light-up-purple-to-honor-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/12\/07\/acc-highland-will-light-up-purple-to-honor-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Highland will Light Up Purple to honor graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.austincc.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/news_banner\/public\/articles\/images\/HLC%20Go%20Purple-scr.jpg?itok=Y72U1Wy9\" alt=\"ACC Highland Light Up Purple Image\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Community College District (ACC) Highland Campus will LIGHT UP PURPLE from Wednesday, December 7, to Friday, December 9,&nbsp; in honor of our summer and fall graduates. Graduates and their families are invited to come out and snap a picture in their caps and gowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The college celebrates more than 3,500 graduates from the summer and fall semesters. The commencement ceremony is Thursday, December 8, at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/news\/tag\/graduation-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read stories about ACC fall graduates here. <\/a>You are also invited to share congratulations or recognize a special graduate or ACC faculty or staff member on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/students\/graduation\/commencement-graduation-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC\u2019s digital message board online<\/a>. Use #ACCGrads on your social media platform of choice, and it will post automatically to our commencement page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November, ACC launched a new tradition at ACC Highland called LIGHT UP PURPLE to recognize&nbsp;major college achievements, awards, and academic excellence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) Highland Campus will LIGHT UP PURPLE from Wednesday, December 7, to Friday, December 9,&nbsp; in honor of our summer and fall graduates. Graduates and their families are invited to come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/12\/07\/acc-highland-will-light-up-purple-to-honor-graduates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,18],"tags":[143,658,2834,2361],"class_list":["post-48011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-official-acc-press-releases","tag-acc-highland","tag-fall-commencement","tag-fall-graduation","tag-light-up-purple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48011","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\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}