The 2022 ACCT Governance Leadership Institute (GLI) will provide educational training and team building for the board chair, vice chair, and CEO of the college.  The objective of the 2022 GLI is to strengthen the leadership team of the board. ACCT is recommending that the board chair, vice chair, and college CEO attend this Institute as a team.

Today, President Biden unveiled a revised framework for the Build Back Better Act—budget reconciliation legislation aimed at further developing our country’s potential by investing in its human resources. The framework devotes $40 billion in higher education and workforce programs and includes features that are tremendously important to community colleges and students. On behalf of the American Association of Community Colleges and the Association of Community College Trustees, we enthusiastically endorse this framework.

On behalf of the nation’s community colleges, we are disappointed to hear reports of the exclusion of the America’s College Promise Act from the Build Back Better Act that is before Congress. Community colleges provide relevant and affordable access to higher education and career training opportunities for nearly 12-million Americans each year. This legislation would mark a historical federal investment in ensuring these opportunities remain affordable and accessible.

San Diego, October 15 — During the third day of the ACCT Leadership Congress, ACCT President & CEO J.