{"id":13034,"date":"2022-04-27T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=13034"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T20:18:25","slug":"sen-ossoff-celebrates-morris-brown-colleges-full-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-celebrates-morris-brown-colleges-full-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Celebrates Morris Brown College\u2019s Full Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>WATCH: Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YxdHH-4KTQI?t=3280\">spoke<\/a>&nbsp;at Morris Brown\u2019s Founder\u2019s Day last month<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff helped restore full Federal financial aid for Morris Brown students last year<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement celebrating the full reaccreditation of Morris Brown College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday is a joyous day for the Morris Brown family. Great credit is due to Dr. Kevin James and his team for this historic achievement. It has been a pleasure working with Dr. James to support Morris Brown\u2019s reaccreditation and to restore access to Federal financial aid for Morris Brown students. The future is bright for Morris Brown!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late last year, Sen. Ossoff worked with Morris Brown and the Department of Education to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/following-sen-ossoff-push-financial-aid-restored-for-morris-brown-students\/\">restore full Federal financial aid<\/a>&nbsp;eligibility for current and future Morris Brown students. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YxdHH-4KTQI?t=3280\">delivered the keynote address<\/a>&nbsp;at Morris Brown\u2019s 141st Founders Day, pledging to continue helping Morris Brown on its 20-year quest to restore full accreditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his campaign for U.S. Senate, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/ossoff-speaks-at-morris-brown-promises-aid-for-hbcus-if-elected\/\">pledged<\/a>&nbsp;to deliver funding for&nbsp;Morris Brown&nbsp;to restore full accreditation with a full student body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since taking office earlier this year, Sen. Ossoff has delivered over a quarter of a billion dollars to Georgia\u2019s HBCUs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;spoke&nbsp;at Morris Brown\u2019s Founder\u2019s Day last month Sen. Ossoff helped restore full Federal financial aid for Morris Brown students last year Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff released the following statement celebrating the full reaccreditation of Morris Brown College. \u201cToday is a joyous day for the Morris Brown family. Great credit is [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13034","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/13034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/13034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/13034\/revisions\/13036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}