Commission on Institutional and Financial Resilience
Charge: Advise AACC on strategies to strengthen colleges’ ability to withstand demographic decline, financial volatility, and operational disruption. The commission will recommend frameworks for business model innovation, risk management, and infrastructure modernization, ensuring institutions remain agile and sustainable.
Commission on the Future of Work
Charge: Advise AACC on aligning community colleges with the future of work and technology-driven economic shifts, including AI. The commission will develop national strategies for AI literacy, skills-based hiring, microcredentials, and sector-based partnerships to ensure colleges meet evolving employer needs.
Commission on Student Agency and Student Success, Learning Pathways, and Wellbeing
Charge: Advise AACC on shaping a national student success agenda that integrates flexible learning pathways, mental health, and equity. The commission will recommend models for student-centric advising, transfer modernization, and new success metrics that reflect wellbeing, workforce outcomes, and lifelong learning.
Commission on Small, Rural and Regional Resilience
Charge: Advise AACC on policies and practices that support rural and under-resourced colleges and their communities. The commission will propose strategies for broadband access, shared resources, and regional innovation to ensure place-based resilience and economic vitality.
Commission on Research, Data, and Strategic Narrative
Charge: Advise AACC on elevating the national narrative about community colleges by leveraging research, data, and strategic storytelling. The commission will recommend forward-thinking advocacy strategies, meaningful performance metrics, and cohesive messaging that highlight community colleges as future-ready institutions indispensable to national progress.
Commission on Professional Learning and Leadership Capacity
Charge: Advice AACC on advancing leadership development and faculty upskilling across community colleges, including strengthening professional learning for new CEOs, current CEOs, faculty, staff, and leaders at all levels. The commission will design frameworks for succession planning, continuous learning ecosystems, and diversity in leadership pipelines, ensuring institutions have adaptive, innovative leaders prepared for future challenges.