Community Colleges
Creating a central role for community colleges
As a community college educator, you help your students succeed in college. Whether they want to earn an AA/AS degree, prepare for transfer to a four-year college or university, or complete a vocational certificate, your students rely on you for advice and counsel. The College Board offers a variety of programs and services to help you serve your students and their families.
We can help you advance national education issues concerning access, equity, and academic excellence. Recent reports have delineated a legislative agenda to enhance the mission of community colleges, highlighted the importance of writing in the American classroom, and identified strategies for studying the educational benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in higher education.
Learn about the work of the Community College Advisory Panel and the National Commission on Community Colleges .
Links to more College Board resources
- College counseling support: The College Board offers information and programs that help you advise your students about becoming successful college students, as well as how to prepare them for transfer to a four-year college or university.
- Financial aid services for higher education: We know that one of the most pressing concerns of community college students and their families is how to pay for college. Fortunately, the College Board's website, College Board services, and a number of publications provide clear and up-to-date information about college costs and financial aid.
- College advising and placement tools: Community college professionals nationwide use College Board assessments to help pinpoint student strengths and weaknesses and to help students advance academically.
- Recruitment and admissions services: The College Board has extensive experience helping colleges and universities recruit and enroll students using the latest web-based technologies in cost-effective ways.
- College Board data, reports, and research: Each year the College Board conducts research studies that explore a broad range of educational issues such as college success, student academic preparation, college placement, and educational policy.
- Professional development opportunities: The College Board offers community college educators a variety of opportunities to strengthen skills and advance their careers.