{"id":47782,"date":"2021-03-25T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-college-designated-as-voter-friendly\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T17:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T17:45:30","slug":"san-juan-college-designated-as-voter-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/san-juan-college-designated-as-voter-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"San Juan College designated as \u2018voter friendly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8ff9ba54-eb55-4425-918f-86660eb64686&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"853\" height=\"567\" alt=\"San Juan College has been named one of 230 schools designated a \u201cvoter friendly campus\u201d by two nonpartisan organizations.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Juan College has been named one of 230 schools designated a \u201cvoter friendly campus\u201d by two nonpartisan organizations.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of San Juan College<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>FARMINGTON \u2013 San Juan College is one of just over 230 campuses designated as a \u201cvoter friendly campus\u201d by the Fair Elections Center\u2019s Campus Vote Project and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>The national nonpartisan organizations hold participating institutions accountable for \u201cplanning and implementing practices that encourage their students to register and vote in 2020 elections and in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SJC spokeswoman Lucy Haber said in a news release the mission of the designation is to help students overcome barriers that might prevent them from voting or participating in political processes.<\/p>\n<p>SJC was evaluated based on a campus plan to help educate students about the voting process, help them register to vote, and the overall student voter turnout in 2020. The designation is active until December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt San Juan College, we are committed to preparing students to be active participants in our democracy,\u201d said Amanda Robles, director of student engagement and campus life. \u201cAs a designated voter friendly campus, we are excited to continue engaging students through 2021, 2022 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>230 in the nation to receive honor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,28,138,29,2378,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-new-mexico","tag-newsletter","tag-san-juan-college","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47782"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}