Four members of ACC’s Board of Trustees traveled to San Francisco in October to attend the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) 40th Annual College Leadership Congress. ACC Board Chairperson Nan McRaven, Vice Chair Allen Kaplan, and Trustees Tim Mahoney and John-Michael Cortez were among more than 1,500 community college leaders who gathered for the conference.
ACC Board Vice Chair Allen Kaplan (left) at the ACCT conference, with his fellow officers of the CCATT (from left, Molly Beth Malcolm, Kitty Boyle, and Roberto Zárate).
ACC’s trustees attended workshops on topics including student success, effective board governance, and conducting evaluations of college presidents and institutions. Kaplan and other officers of the Community College Association of Texas Trustees (CCATT) conducted a session to help leaders of colleges in other states form similar organizations. Kaplan is the CCATT chair-elect as well as the Texas coordinator for ACCT.
Kaplan reports that many other institutions commended ACC’s inclusion in a Time magazine article, “Can Community Colleges Save the U.S. Economy?” (July 20, 2009 issue).
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a community college graduate, opened the conference on October 8, calling community colleges “institutions of hope.” Other keynote speakers included Martha Kanter, Undersecretary of Education for the U.S. Department of Education.
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