{"id":55506,"date":"2022-12-22T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55506"},"modified":"2022-12-22T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:11:58","slug":"assemblymember-mike-fong-appointed-chair-of-the-assembly-higher-education-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55506","title":{"rendered":"Assemblymember Mike Fong Appointed Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SACRAMENTO, CA (December 22, 2022) <\/strong>\u2013<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Today, Speaker Anthony Rendon appointed Assemblymember Mike Fong (D-Alhambra) Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u201cI am honored to be appointed Chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee and grateful to Speaker Rendon for his trust.\u00a0 As a former trustee of the Los Angeles Community College District and a graduate of the UC and the CSU, I look forward to working with my legislative colleagues and our higher education partners to increase student access to higher education and success for all our students,\u201d said Assemblymember Mike Fong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prior to his election to the 49<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Assembly District in February, Assemblymember Mike Fong\u00a0served as a Trustee of the Los Angeles Community College District. He pushed forward policies that increased student success, improved educational access and quality, and expanded workforce education and high-growth sector training programs at the nine community colleges serving over 250,000 students across Los Angeles and surrounding cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A product of Los Angeles County, Assemblymember Mike Fong graduated from California State University at Northridge with a Master of Public Administration in Public Sector Management &amp; Leadership and from the University of California at Los Angeles with a B.S. in Psychobiology and a minor in Education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, CA (December 22, 2022) \u2013\u00a0Today,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55507,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55506\/revisions\/55507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}