Community College Month Round Up
All month long, we have been celebrating Community College Month by sharing facts, statistics, and quotes about community and technical colleges, as well as highlighting the important ways our member colleges enrich and serve their communities. We’ve also published #NISODProfiles features every week in April to honor faculty and staff for their hard work and achievements on their campuses.
Below is a round up of the Community College Month content we’ve shared across our social media channels and in our member-only newsletter, NISODirect. If you aren’t subscribed to our media channels, be sure to follow us so you don’t miss our Community College Month campaign next year (and other interesting content and important updates between now and then!). You can also sign up for NISODirect if you’re an individual at a NISOD member college.
Finally, our most popular post during Community College Month asked our audience to tell us about their experiences with community or technical colleges in a six-word story. The responses were thoughtful and inspiring, and are each copied below.
Thank you so much to the faculty, staff, and administrators at community and technical colleges who support students’ success with their dedication and hard work. Community College Month is a small moment of recognition compared against the everyday commitment of educational leaders to providing opportunity and shaping students into the best versions of themselves they can be.
Six-Word Stories
Honor BEFORE glory helping students succeed! –Pamela Shekinah Perkins
Our students’ successes are our successes. –Elena Sandoval-Lucero
Building bright futures for our students! –Solomon Willis
Returned, transferred, graduated, taught, retired, Trustee! –Greg Gilbert
I built a strong foundation here. –Deb Cruise
A community college started my journey! –Don King
Paves the way toward the workforce. –Sheri Nelson Zehrung
Better Together-Faculty, Staff and Students. –Sony Simon
Community college made it all possible! –Edward Leach
An opportunity to rewrite my story. –Sabrena Turner
My experience helps me lead others. –Denise Thomas DeBusk
Emerging from our silos: Interprofessional Education! –Betty Onik
Working class future PhD started here! –Angie Pastorek
Transforming lives in our mega region. –Linda Elliott-Nelson
Her first diploma, at age 99. –Saburo Matsumoto
A place of hope and joy! –Sharon Yoder
Not just a college, but family! –Loretta Burns
Changed the trajectory of my family. –Tom Broxson
Changing individual lives in our state. –Kelli Hefner
Teaching and Learning for 28 years! –Melissa Armstrong
Changed my life for the better! –Marty Kellum
Open doors when I needed them! –Patrick Forster
Opened a new world for me. –Louella Allen
Turning dreams into reality for students. –Libby Yeager
Lost student, to job, then career. –Susan Paris