PRESS RELEASE: 2025 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges
For Immediate Release
NISOD and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Name 2025 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges
Austin, Texas – March 17, 2025 – The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education (Diverse) are excited to announce the 2025 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges (MPPWCC) award winners.
Focusing on workplace diversity, staffing practices, and work environment, the research team uses a web-based survey approach to examine categories such as family friendliness, salary/benefits, and professional development opportunities to determine the list.
The 16 2025 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges (in alphabetical order) are:
| Arapahoe Community College* |
| Chemeketa Community College* |
| Coconino Community College |
| Community College of Allegheny County |
| Community College of Baltimore County |
| HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College* |
| Joliet Junior College |
| Montgomery County Community College* |
| Northeast Lakeview College* |
| Olive-Harvey College* |
| Palo Alto College* |
| Phoenix College |
| Prince George’s Community College* |
| St. Philip’s College* |
| Tallahassee State College |
| Weatherford College |
This year, the Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges features a short list of Honorable Mentions:
Bergen Community College*
Garden City Community College*
GateWay Community College (AZ)*
Hudson County Community College*
Malcolm X College*
Northeast Mississippi Community College
*2024 MPPWCC recipient
“NISOD is proud to honor the recipients of the Most Promising Places to Work Award, recognizing institutions that demonstrate exceptional commitment to workplace belonging and employee support in higher education. These outstanding institutions set a benchmark for fostering environments where faculty and staff thrive,” said Kris Tolman, NISOD Interim Associate Director. “We celebrate their dedication to create empowering and growth-focused workplaces that drive meaningful change that ultimately supports student success.”
The award-winning institutions will receive a specially-designed logo that can be used to promote the institution’s commitment to diversity during student and staff recruitment efforts, as well as during other times when they want to highlight their commitment to inclusiveness. Also, Diverse features the awarded colleges in its May 1, 2025 edition.
To learn more about the Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges awards, visit nisod.org/mppwcc.
About NISOD
The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) empowers faculty, staff, and administrators at community and technical colleges to support the needs of diverse students in the face of ever-present resource constraints. High-quality, easy-to-access professional development resources connect staff and faculty with applicable knowledge to grow their careers and improve instruction. Meaningful recognition programs can augment the reputation of individual students, employees, and institutions. But perhaps most valuable are the connections NISOD helps build among community and technical colleges to share ideas, strengths, and solutions.
About Diverse
Since 1984, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has been the nation’s premier publication covering the issues pertaining to underrepresented minorities in American higher education. Reaching more than 200,000 readers biweekly, Diverse has been recognized for its in-depth news coverage, provocative commentary, insightful special reports, and original research.
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