{"id":77,"date":"2020-01-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=77"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:53:18","slug":"mcc-responds-to-governors-2020-state-of-the-state-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/09\/mcc-responds-to-governors-2020-state-of-the-state-address\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC Responds to Governor&#8217;s 2020 State of the State Address"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Below is a statement from Monroe Community College in response to Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/keywords\/2020-state-state\"><i><u><span style=\"color: #0082bf; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">2020 State of the State address<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">:<\/span><\/i><br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cAccess to an affordable, quality college education is integral to economic growth and the well-being of individuals and our region. Monroe Community College appreciates and supports Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s proposals to expand access to higher education and invest in workforce development to create a stronger future for New Yorkers. Increasing the Excelsior Scholarship eligibility threshold to $150,000 will empower more students to achieve life-changing degrees and certificates that lead to rewarding careers.\u201d<\/span><br \/><br \/><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">&#8212; Hezekiah N. Simmons, Acting President, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President, Administrative Services<\/span><\/i><br \/><i><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Monroe Community College<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a statement from Monroe Community College in response to Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s\u00a02020 State of the State address: \u201cAccess to an affordable, quality college education is integral to economic growth and the well-being of individuals and our region. Monroe Community College appreciates and supports Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s proposals to expand access to higher education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}