{"id":798,"date":"2016-03-09T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/?p=798"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:13:36","slug":"policyseminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/policyseminar\/","title":{"rendered":"36th Annual Policy Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week The Council for Opportunity Education is holding its 36th\u00a0Annual Policy Seminar. \u201cThis is an opportunity for the TRIO and GEAR UP communities to help educate Members of the 114th\u00a0Congress, congressional staff, and Obama Administration officials about the history and the success of TRIO and GEAR UP. More importantly, this event gives participants a chance to represent the interests of low-income and first-generation students and veterans, adult learners, and students with disabilities in the policy arena.\u201d Our program Director, Dr. Christina Torres Garcia, met with Eastern Washington\u2019s chief advocate in Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers in Washington D.C., to help advocate for TRIO Programs. One of our Alumni, Bruno Baltodano also had his story featured at the annual seminar!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-802 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2016\/03\/COE-2016-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"COE 2016\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2016\/03\/COE-2016-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2016\/03\/COE-2016-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/131\/2016\/03\/COE-2016.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week The Council for Opportunity Education is holding its 36th\u00a0Annual Policy Seminar. \u201cThis is an opportunity for the TRIO and GEAR UP communities to help educate Members of the 114th\u00a0Congress, congressional staff, and Obama Administration officials about the history and the success of TRIO and GEAR UP. More importantly, this event gives participants a &#8230; <a title=\"36th Annual Policy Seminar\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/policyseminar\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 36th Annual Policy Seminar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,18,28],"tags":[96,97,102],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christinaramelow","category-events","category-news","tag-mcnair-scholar","tag-mcnair-scholars-program","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}