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ACE Connects with Community Colleges

The American Council on Education (ACE) shares your commitment to the unique mission and diverse needs of students in our nation's community colleges. And as the higher education association that represents and includes members from all sectors of higher education, ACE has great national reach. The combined power we leverage—across geographic region, sector, and size—enables our community to influence policy, educate the public, and challenge costly and burdensome regulations. We invite you to become a member of ACE and to actively engage with your colleagues as we work to achieve our common mission of advancing access and attainment opportunities for our nation's learners.

If we are to succeed as a nation in regaining our lost ground in the global world of postsecondary education, we must find ways to educate a larger percentage of our growing and increasingly diverse population, and we must collectively create evaluation tools that better capture the incremental impact of education along a continuum.

While ACE has a long history of service to our community colleges, our 2012 strategic priorities reflect a deepening engagement with this critical sector of our membership. In the coming year, ACE will take a leadership role in bringing organizations, business and industry, and practitioners together to expand access and attainment for underrepresented groups and nontraditional students, including veterans, high school dropouts, displaced workers, immigrants, encore workers, and other adult learners.

Advocacy

As the only higher education association that represents and includes members from all sectors of higher education, ACE has the greatest national reach. ACE's commitment to community college members is well known on Capitol Hill and permeates much of what ACE does as an organization. ACE develops and executes its legislative and regulatory agenda with involvement from American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) colleagues and in full recognition of the needs of community college members. ACE also routinely explains to congressional and administration staffs the consequences of various policies on two-year institutions.

We hope you will join us. We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you to represent the collective interests of the higher education community and the specific needs of your campus.

Sincerely,