{"id":49461,"date":"2019-04-08T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=49461"},"modified":"2024-10-31T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:13:00","slug":"equity-advocates-town-hall-helping-daca-students-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/08\/equity-advocates-town-hall-helping-daca-students-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Equity Advocates Town Hall: Helping DACA students thrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) hosts an Equity Advocates town hall meeting to explore and discuss issues and resources for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) eligible students 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Riverside Campus, Building A, Room 1154 (1020 Grove Blvd.).<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent College Board report, about 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools every year, and fewer than 10 percent go on to enroll in college.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Navigating college can be challenging for anyone, but many of our DACA students face additional barriers,&#8221; says Loretta Edelen, ACC Community Engagement director. &#8220;We&#8217;re here to listen to the issues they face and learn more about what we can do as a college to better support them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by ACC&#8217;s Equity and Inclusion Office, Equity Advocates&#8217; meetings are&nbsp;free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Edelen at 512-223-7672 or email <a href=\"mailto:edelen@austincc.edu\">edelen@austincc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) hosts an Equity Advocates town hall meeting to explore and discuss issues and resources for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) eligible students 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/04\/08\/equity-advocates-town-hall-helping-daca-students-thrive\/\">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":[12,13,15,17],"tags":[3023,3475,2017,2465],"class_list":["post-49461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","tag-daca","tag-equity-advocates","tag-equity-and-inclusion","tag-town-hall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49461","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=49461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}