{"id":50525,"date":"2020-05-29T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=50525"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:31:23","slug":"fashion-incubator-and-fashion-design-students-create-graduation-stoles-for-acc-faculty-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/29\/fashion-incubator-and-fashion-design-students-create-graduation-stoles-for-acc-faculty-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Incubator and Fashion Design students create graduation stoles for ACC faculty, staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Community College (ACC) faculty and staff who earn a new credential from another institution will soon have a special Riverbat stole to wear at graduation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea originated during a meeting between all the employee associations and the President&#8217;s Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Lifelong learning is part of who we are at ACC and we want to recognize our faculty and staff who have chosen to advance their education. We&#8217;re only as strong as our employees; their victories are worth celebrating,&#8221; says ACC President\/CEO Dr. Richard M. Rhodes. &#8220;We hope these stoles will bring pride to the wearer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ACC Fashion Incubator created a design blending the Riverbat logo with renowned Southwest artist Amado Pena&#8217;s artwork. The image depicts the student-teacher interaction at ACC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACC Fashion Design students were hired to help sew the stoles. The new stole will debut during the college&#8217;s 2020 virtual commencement celebration on Saturday, June 6. To watch the celebration, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.austincc.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/austincc.edu\/commencement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">austincc.edu\/commencement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) faculty and staff who earn a new credential from another institution will soon have a special Riverbat stole to wear at graduation. The idea originated during a meeting between all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/29\/fashion-incubator-and-fashion-design-students-create-graduation-stoles-for-acc-faculty-staff\/\">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":[40,3944,3945,2146,2513,69,3943],"class_list":["post-50525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","tag-commencement","tag-educational-advancement","tag-faculty-and-staff-recognition","tag-fashion-design","tag-fashion-incubator","tag-graduation","tag-graduation-stoles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50525","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=50525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}