{"id":360844,"date":"2026-07-04T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360844\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:32:20","slug":"college-student-commission-seeks-to-give-representation-to-austins-student-population-in-city-government-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/360844\/","title":{"rendered":"College Student Commission seeks to give representation to Austin&#8217;s student population in city government | Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College students will now have representation in Austin\u2019s city government following the creation of the College Student Commission during Thursday\u2019s City Council meeting.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nThe commission will serve as an advisory board to City Council on issues affecting the quality of life for college students in Austin. The 15-member board will consist of student representatives from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin Community College, St. Edward\u2019s University, Concordia University and Huston-Tillotson University.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nIn order to create the commission, City Council waived Austin citizenship requirements and attendance standards for eligible board or commission appointment. Commissioners will be appointed for a term of up to two years.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nAlex Meed, a student at UT, said commission\u2019s creation provided an important step for student representation in Austin\u2019s government.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nDistrict 4 Council Member Greg Casar said it was positive for students to participate in the local government.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nDistrict 8 Council Member Ellen Troxclair, the lone &#8220;no&#8221; vote for the commission, said the city already had over 60 boards and commissions and opposed creating another one. However, Troxclair said she supported students participating in existing boards and commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College students will now have representation in Austin\u2019s city government following the creation of the College Student Commission&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,128137],"class_list":["post-360844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-college-student-commission-seeks-to-give-representation-to-austins-student-population-in-city-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}