{"id":52660,"date":"2025-12-15T10:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=52660"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:08:48","slug":"acc-fall-2025-commencement-reaches-new-high-at-december-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/12\/15\/acc-fall-2025-commencement-reaches-new-high-at-december-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Fall 2025 Commencement Reaches New High at December Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Community College District (ACC) celebrated its fall 2025 graduates on Thursday, December 11, marking one of the largest cohorts in the College\u2019s history. More than 4,440 students were invited to participate in ACC\u2019s Fall 2025 Commencement. That\u2019sa 12% increase from last fall and reflects strong momentum in student completion across the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As graduates crossed the stage at the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park, friends, family, faculty, and staff filled the stands to cheer them on. This fall\u2019s class included associate and bachelor\u2019s degree earners, workforce certificate completers, and students completing their high school equivalency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fall 2025 Graduation Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>4,440+ graduates invited<\/li>\n<li>5,086 total degrees and certificates<\/li>\n<li>3,347 associate degrees<\/li>\n<li>1,625 certificates<\/li>\n<li>115 bachelor\u2019s degrees<\/li>\n<li>154 high school equivalency (GED) completions<\/li>\n<li>1,716 Free Tuition &amp; Affordability Scholarship participants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View photos from the celebration below.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72177720330864150\" title=\"ACC Fall 2025 Commencement  by Austin Community College, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54980251493_801acedb5f.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Commencement Fall 2025'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) celebrated its fall 2025 graduates on Thursday, December 11, marking one of the largest cohorts in the College\u2019s history. More than 4,440 students were invited to participate in ACC\u2019s Fall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/12\/15\/acc-fall-2025-commencement-reaches-new-high-at-december-ceremony\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":52662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,15,19,1],"tags":[2180,4307,4306],"class_list":["post-52660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-students-and-alumni","category-updates","tag-congrats-grads","tag-fall-2025-commencement","tag-fall-2025-graduation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52660","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=52660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}