{"id":3034,"date":"2019-02-21T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:57:57","slug":"february-declared-gap-year-exploration-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/02\/21\/february-declared-gap-year-exploration-month\/","title":{"rendered":"February Declared Gap Year Exploration Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3035\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3035\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gap-year-month.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gap-year-month.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gap-year-month-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Gap Year Association recently named February as \u201cGap Year Exploration Month,\u201d an event designed to give attention to the options available to students who don\u2019t want to jump right into college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGap Year Exploration Month seeks to empower students to understand the vast array of opportunities available for gap time and research paths that are right for them,\u201d the association wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gapyearassociation.org\/blog\/gap-year-exploration-month\/\">in a blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehind this initiative is a passionate group of educators, program providers and others who want to help promote the benefits of gap time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The association also a created <a href=\"https:\/\/gapyearassociation.org\/downloads\/GYEM.2019.educators.pdf\">a toolkit<\/a> for counselors looking for more information to share with students about gap year options and opportunities. The kit includes statistics on gap year benefits and ways they can participate in Gap Year Exploration Month.<\/p>\n<p>Check out NACAC\u2019s resources on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacfairs.org\/learn\/decide\/taking-a-gap-year\/\">taking a gap year<\/a> and meet with exhibiting gap year programs at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacfairs.org\/attend\/national-college-fairs\/\">this year\u2019s National College Fairs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gap Year Association recently named February as \u201cGap Year Exploration Month,\u201d an event designed to give attention to the options available to students who don\u2019t want to jump right into college. \u201cGap Year Exploration Month seeks to empower students to understand the vast array of opportunities available for gap time and research paths that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/02\/21\/february-declared-gap-year-exploration-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February Declared Gap Year Exploration Month<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-readiness"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-MW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}