{"id":795467,"date":"2019-05-04T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/more-than-1000-graduate-from-colorado-mountain-college-in-spring-commencement\/"},"modified":"2019-05-04T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T22:48:00","slug":"more-than-1000-graduate-from-colorado-mountain-college-in-spring-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/more-than-1000-graduate-from-colorado-mountain-college-in-spring-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,000 graduate from Colorado Mountain College in spring commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-CMC-SDN-050519-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-CMC-SDN-050519-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-CMC-SDN-050519-1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Graduation Dr. Justin Pollack, associate professor of life sciences, health, and wellness at Colorado Mountain College, speaks to graduating CMC Breckenridge and Dillon students at the Keystone Conference Center in Keystone, Friday May 3.<\/strong><br \/><em>Charles Engelbert<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Colorado Mountain College celebrated the graduation of over 1,000 of its students last week at 10 different commencement ceremonies across the CMC district, including one for CMC Breckenridge and Dillon at the Keystone Conference Center this past Friday, where over a hundred students received degrees and certificates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The graduation speaker was Dr. Justin Pollack, associate professor of life sciences, health and wellness at Colorado Mountain College.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Nancy Higuera Merino was one of the local students to receive an Associate of Arts degree. Merino plans to go on to obtain a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Colorado State University, with ambitions of going to law school and working in criminal justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s great that it was such an affordable option,\u201d Higuera said of CMC\u2019s program leading to an Associate of Arts degree. \u201cI\u2019m not in debt, I\u2019m not broke and I have a great education under my belt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/more-than-1000-graduate-from-colorado-mountain-college-in-spring-commencement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation Dr. Justin Pollack, associate professor of life sciences, health, and wellness at Colorado Mountain College, speaks to graduating CMC Breckenridge and Dillon students at the Keystone Conference Center in Keystone, Friday May 3.Charles Engelbert Colorado Mountain College celebrated the graduation of over 1,000 of its students last week at 10 different commencement ceremonies across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-795467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 06:28:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}