{"id":19358,"date":"2017-05-03T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=19358"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:00","slug":"well-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=19358","title":{"rendered":"Well Said: Commencement and Carolina Firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19359\" src=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/05\/009117_miller_alexis003-1024x720.jpg\" alt=\"Alexis Miller (Jon Gardiner\/UNC-Chapel Hill)\" width=\"750\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/009117_miller_alexis003-1024x720.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/009117_miller_alexis003-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/009117_miller_alexis003-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/009117_miller_alexis003-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/05\/009117_miller_alexis003-2048x1440.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On May 14, Alexis Miller, a political science major in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, will be one of the more than 600 first-generation college students to graduate from Carolina at the Spring Commencement.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the easiest path to graduation but with the support of <a href=\"http:\/\/studentsuccess.unc.edu\/carolina-firsts\/\">Carolina Firsts<\/a>, Miller will become the first person in her family to receive a college degree.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s episode, we talk about the upcoming Spring Commencement and the Carolina Firsts program with Miller, the president of the Carolina Firsts student organization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Join UNC every other Wednesday for &#8220;Well Said,&#8221; the University\u2019s podcast, featuring conversations with Carolina\u2019s newsmakers and experts. Each episode, students, faculty, staff and alumni will discuss what\u2019s going on in classrooms, labs and around campus, and how it pertains to the local, national and international headlines.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Well Said: Commencement and Carolina Firsts by Well Said\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F320665606&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 14, Alexis Miller, a political science major in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, will be one of the more than 600 first-generation college students to graduate from Carolina at the Spring Commencement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,18],"tags":[1360,24,309,1361,36,37,38,39,40],"class_list":["post-19358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-social-sciences","category-undergraduate-education","tag-alexis-miller","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-firsts","tag-first-generation","tag-unc","tag-unc-arts-and-sciences","tag-unc-college-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-unc-chapel-hill","tag-university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48098,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19358\/revisions\/48098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}