Name: Barbara Gaba
Job Title: President
Institution: Atlantic Cape Community College (NJ)
Since: 2017
Previous Positions: Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Union County College; Dean of Academic and Student Support Services, Camden County College; Associate Director of Office of Board Affairs and Government Relations, New Jersey Department of Higher Education.
Affiliations and/or Board: Atlantic County Economic Alliance (ACEA); Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce; Workforce Development Board (Atlantic County); New Jersey Community College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development; Chair Academy International Advisory Board; Higher Education Research and Development Institute (HERDI).
State Engagement: New Jersey Governor’s Atlantic City Restart and Recovery Working Group; Ocean Wind Pro-NJ Grantor Trust Advisory Committee; Small Airport & Aviation Partnership (SAAP); New Jersey Council of County Colleges State and Federal Policy Committee (co-chair); New Jersey Presidents Council Executive Committee; National Aerospace Research & Technology Park (NARTP) Board.
Past AACC Conventions Attended: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017.
Past AACC Professional Development Participation: AACC Commission on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; AACC Commission on Institutional Infrastructure and Transformation; AACC Presidents Academy Executive Committee, AACC Presidents Academy Summer Institute (2019, 2022, 2023).
Education: Ph.D., Educational Psychology, Bayero University; M.Ed., Educational Psychology, Rutgers University; B.A., Education/Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook.