MAYS LANDING Atlantic Cape Community College is celebrating Community College Month this April by joining the "#CCMonth" campaign, a monthlong grassroots education campaign coordinated by the Association of Community College Trustees. Community college alumni are being asked to share their words of support for the community college experience on social media using the hashtags #CCMonth and #AtlanticCape.
The campaign is designed to improve awareness of the economic, academic and equity advantages of attending community colleges, and to eliminate longtime stigmas wrongly associated with public two-year colleges.
Community College Month is a wonderful opportunity to reach out into the local community and to demonstrate that community colleges should be the first choice of many college goers, Atlantic Cape President Barbara Gaba said. We are first-class institutions that are vital to our local and state economies, and provide an affordable opportunity to obtain an advanced educational degree or certification.
Public community colleges are a uniquely American educational model that guarantees access to affordable, high-quality higher education for everyone. Community colleges are the primary educators of life-saving nursing and other healthcare professionals and serve as an onramp to bachelor's, master's and higher-level degrees, particularly for the most demographically and socioeconomically diverse students. They guarantee fair admissions for all students and offer support for adult students who are working to support their families. Without community colleges, many American students would not be able to access higher education at all.
Community colleges are engines of diversity, equity and inclusion, said ACCT President and CEO Jee Hang Lee. They give opportunities to all students, and they support all students throughout their educations, whether they attend to attain an associate degree or certificate, intend to transfer for a bachelor's or higher degree, or they take one or a few courses to learn a new skill or expand their horizons.
Tell your story on social media using the hashtags #CCMonth and #AtlanticCape.
