Community College Month Introduction

About #CCMonth, Goal & Theme

April is Community College Month, and that presents a great opportunity to get the word out about why community colleges matter, how your college is serving your community's needs today, and why public support for our colleges is more important than ever.

ACCT's Member Communications and Education Committee has collaborated to develop this toolkit designed to help you make the most of the #CCMonth campaign.

Goal of #CCMonth Campaign

The primary goal of #CCMonth is to increase awareness and understanding of the value of community colleges both locally and nationally through grassroots, localized outreach. We believe that accomplishing this will advance appreciation for and reduce stigmas related to community colleges, and ultimately welcome more students through our doors.

This toolkit offers comprehensive resources to help advocates of your college get the word out about the value and importance of your college.

2025 Campaign Theme

The theme of our 2025 #CCMonth campaign is "Best Decision Ever" or #BestDecisionEver. 

"Community college was the best academic decision I ever made," former ACCT Intern Ayman Mendoza once told us. Mendoza is a Cerritos College and University of California, Irvine graduate who currently works for the University of Southern California. 

Mendoza's sentiment is one we hear all the time. During ACCT events, members of the ACCT staff and board are regularly told by members of United States Congress and their staffs, by hospitality and audio-visual professionals, by strangers who happen upon our events that attending community college was "the best decision ever" for themselves, for their children, for other people they know. Some of us on the ACCT staff share the sentiment and we have shared our own stories.

Trustees who serve on the ACCT Member Communications and Education Committee suggested #BestDecisionEver as a complement to #CCMonth for our 2025 campaign because so many community college alumni are excited to share their stories with us. So why not share them with the whole world?

Everyone today is looking for encouraging stories, and we know that community colleges have them. 

Your assignment: Reach out to your local press and tell them why going to community college is the #BestDecisionEver for those in your communities. Tell specific stories about how your college transformed someone's life--and then tell another and another and another. 

Mobilize your students to take to social media and share during #CCMonth why going to community college is their #BestDecisionEver.

Share those stories with your state and federal representatives, your governors, business owners. If you can, invite them onto your campus and show them firsthand what your college is capable of and introduce them to your thriving students so they can share in their exuberance. 

Our toolkit is designed to jumpstart your outreach activities. Implement all the included activities that you can, but don't limit your imagination. Be inspired, be creative, and inspire us with your accomplishments this April.

And share all your stories with us at [email protected] and [email protected] so that we can amplify them and help to get the message out.

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