{"id":967,"date":"2017-06-01T11:56:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=967"},"modified":"2017-06-05T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T18:21:50","slug":"get-ready-for-nacacreads-with-tressie-mcmillan-cottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/01\/get-ready-for-nacacreads-with-tressie-mcmillan-cottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for #NACACreads with Tressie McMillan Cottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Tressie_Headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-969 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Tressie_Headshot-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Tressie_Headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Tressie_Headshot-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Tressie_Headshot-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Can you believe it\u2019s already June? That means our next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/NACACreads\/\">#NACACreads <\/a>book club chat\u00a0is just days away.<\/p>\n<p>On June 12, we&#8217;ll discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/lower-ed\"><em>Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation will kick off at 2 p.m. ET on Twitter, and we&#8217;d love to have you join the chat!<\/p>\n<p>Author Tressie McMillan Cottom will participate in the hour-long discussion, and there will be plenty of opportunities for you to share your own thoughts about the book, as well as for-profit colleges.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2017\/02\/the-coded-language-of-for-profit-colleges\/516810\/\">Read\u00a0an excerpt from the book<\/a> and make plans to join the discussion on June 12.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/news--publications\/publications\/NACACreads\/\">#NACACreads<\/a> and check out these <a href=\"https:\/\/teacherchallenge.edublogs.org\/step-3-twitter-chats\/\">tips<\/a>\u00a0for anyone new to Twitter\u00a0chats.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/students-share-your-college-essay-with-the-new-york-times\/mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em>mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe it\u2019s already June? That means our next #NACACreads book club chat\u00a0is just days away. On June 12, we&#8217;ll discuss Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The conversation will kick off at 2 p.m. ET on Twitter, and we&#8217;d love to have you join the chat! Author &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/01\/get-ready-for-nacacreads-with-tressie-mcmillan-cottom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get Ready for #NACACreads with Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/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":[6],"tags":[64,325,326],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nacac-news","tag-nacacreads","tag-lower-ed","tag-tressie-mcmillan-cottom"],"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-fB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}