{"id":2820,"date":"2018-04-23T13:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2018-04-23T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:30:25","slug":"tstc-to-host-first-commencement-ceremony-in-hutto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=2820","title":{"rendered":"TSTC to Host First Commencement Ceremony in Hutto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(HUTTO) &#8211; Texas State Technical College in Williamson County will host its first commencement ceremony Friday, May 11. Twenty students representing six of the Hutto campus&#8217; seven programs are eligible to graduate.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will be at 6:30 p.m. at the East Williamson County Higher Education Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are exceptionally proud to be hosting our first graduation ceremony on campus in Hutto this spring,&#8221; said TSTC Provost Edgar Padilla. &#8220;As we&#8217;ve grown as a campus, we&#8217;ve worked to find ways to show our students how much they mean to us, and this is just another way for us to ensure we&#8217;re celebrating their accomplishments locally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Padilla says the ceremony honors the work of the students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to offer commencement locally so our students do not have to drive far to celebrate with their families,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In addition, our faculty and staff who work so hard to get our students to the finish line will now have the opportunity to see the fruit of their labor. It&#8217;s very positive for our campus culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Padilla said he is excited to see the students begin working.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our students are exceptionally trained and very valuable in the workforce,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud that we will uphold the 50-plus-year tradition of TSTC providing a quality workforce to Texas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TSTC&#8217;s Chancellor, Mike Reeser, will speak at commencement, as well as Robb Misso, president and CEO of Dynamic Manufacturing Solutions in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>TSTC is registering now for the fall semester. The last day to register is Monday, Aug. 20, and classes begin Monday, Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on TSTC, visit tstc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(HUTTO) &#8211; Texas State Technical College in Williamson County will host its first commencement ceremony Friday, May 11. Twenty students representing six of the Hutto campus&#8217; seven programs are eligible to graduate. The ceremony will be at 6:30 p.m. at the East Williamson County Higher Education Center. &#8220;We are exceptionally proud to be hosting our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wilco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2821,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}