American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) president and CEO Walter G. Bumphus has been awarded the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations’ (NCMPR) President’s Award for his extraordinary contributions to the community college movement…
At colleges and universities across the country, emotions were running high after the 2016 presidential election. Tabitha WhissemoreTabitha Whissemore is a contributor to Community College Daily and managing editor of AACC's Community College Journal.More Posts…
Many community colleges have been in their communities for decades, and some take it for granted that campus stakeholders, prospective students and their families, and the public at large understand who they are and what…
Editor’s note: This article is part of a monthly series by the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations (NCMPR), an AACC-affiliated council. More and more, community colleges are seeing frequent turnover in senior leadership….
It seems that every time you turn on your television or access the top news stories online you see a gathering of college students on campuses across the nation. Sometimes peaceful but often not, these…
By now, your marketing and communication teams have almost surely embraced social media as the spear-point of low-cost, high-touch targeted outreach to potential students. What’s more, cultivating an online community of students and college staff…
Two-year college communicators spend a lot of time trying to reach the next group of prospective students, but could it be time to start paying closer attention to communicating with current students? Eric Melcheris coordinator…
Your students are talking about what it’s like to go to your college. Why does it matter? Because their opinions are one of the most influential forces at work when it comes to new students…
Kudos Dianne Van Hook, chancellor of Santa Clarita Community College District-College of the Canyons (COC) in California, has been named the 2017 National Pacesetter of the Year by the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations,…
Community colleges are vibrant, constantly changing, critically important institutions. We are where the action is in higher education today, right? The pivotal intersection of high schools and universities, welfare and the workforce, immigration and assimilation….