{"id":54653,"date":"2025-11-20T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54653\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:12:05","slug":"spc-president-appointed-to-federal-pell-grant-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54653\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC president appointed to federal Pell Grant committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 20, 2025 &#8211; The U.S. Department of Education has selected Dr. Tonjua Williams, president of St. Petersburg College, to serve on the national Accountability in Higher Education and Access through Demand-Driven Workforce Pell (AHEAD) committee. The AHEAD committee will shape how updated Pell Grant policies, including the new Workforce Pell option for short-term, career-focused programs, roll out nationwide. According to the college, the appointment places SPC at the &#8220;forefront of shaping the future of short-term career training across the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"November 20, 2025 &#8211; The U.S. Department of Education has selected Dr. Tonjua Williams, president of St. Petersburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-54653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}