Community Colleges

Each year, over 1,000 community college trustees, presidents, students and other advocates who converged in the nation's capital to make the case for community colleges.

The Presidents Academy is an annual professional development program for CEOs and presidents of AACC member community colleges.

The AACC annual meeting, being held next year in San Francisco, generally attracts over 2,000 community college presidents and senior administrators, as well as international educators, representatives of business/industry and federal agencies.

Moon Ahn, a local lawyer and former assistant district attorney, was appointed to the Montgomery County Community College’s (Pa.) board of trustees during the Montgomery County Commissioners’ recent business meeting. In November of last year, Ahn stepped into the political arena running on the Republican ticket and challenging incumbent Ann Thornburg Weiss for the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts.

Outgoing Gov. Chris Gregoire has appointed her daughter, Courtney Gregoire, to the board of trustees for Seattle Community Colleges. Gregoire made the appointment Oct. 29, although it was not announced by the college district until Tuesday. Governor's spokesman Jason Kelly, responding by email, wrote that the younger Gregoire — she is 33 — "has more than ample experience to serve on this community college board."

With backing from the nation’s leading foundations, seven community and technical colleges have announced that they will pilot an initiative testing innovative approaches to increase the number of students who earn postsecondary credentials.