{"id":181,"date":"2016-11-02T20:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2016-11-05T20:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T00:57:39","slug":"obama-dubs-november-national-college-application-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/11\/02\/obama-dubs-november-national-college-application-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Dubs November National College Application Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COLLEGEapp-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COLLEGEapp-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COLLEGEapp.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Barack Obama wants young Americans to set their sights on higher education, and he\u2019s asking parents, educators, and community leaders to help.<\/p>\n<p>The commander-in-chief issued an official proclamation last week declaring November National College Application Month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This month, we recognize the limitless potential in every student and reaffirm our commitment to offering them the resources they need to succeed,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/10\/28\/presidential-proclamation-national-college-application-month-2016\">Obama said in his announcement<\/a>. &#8220;Together, let us forge a future where every student has the opportunity to go as far as their dreams and hard work will take them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Obama has set a goal that the US will have the highest proportion of college graduates of any country in the world by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>First Lady Michelle Obama is championing that effort through Reach Higher \u2014 an initiative aimed at encouraging every American student to pursue higher education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/10\/28\/presidential-proclamation-national-college-application-month-2016\">Read the full proclamation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at <a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama wants young Americans to set their sights on higher education, and he\u2019s asking parents, educators, and community leaders to help. The commander-in-chief issued an official proclamation last week declaring November National College Application Month. &#8220;This month, we recognize the limitless potential in every student and reaffirm our commitment to offering them the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/11\/02\/obama-dubs-november-national-college-application-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Dubs November National College Application Month<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[123,121,120,122],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-admission","tag-first-lady-michelle-obama","tag-national-college-application-month","tag-president-barack-obama","tag-reach-higher"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-2V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}