As AACC works to address current and future challenges, the AACC board sought an external, deeply informed scan of the likely future environment within which colleges will need to operate. The Board of Directors contracted with National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), a nonprofit policy organization to prepare the report and the supplemental collateral. To produce this report, NCHEMS scoured related literature and news articles anticipating the challenges ahead, conducted an extensive analysis of relevant data, and interviewed a wide range of experts to capture their perspectives about the future conditions community colleges will face and judgments about how they might most effectively respond.
The Board will be advancing this work as a call to action for the nation’s community colleges to better understand what is coming for their college and students and will serve to inform the future work of the association.
Report
Toolkits
- opens in a new windowAbout Resilient by Design – A Letter from the AACC Boardopens PDF file (PDF)
- opens in a new windowResilient by Design Campus Discussion Guideopens PDF file (PDF)
- opens in a new windowResilient by Design Campus Facilitator Guideopens PDF file (PDF)
- opens in a new windowResilient by Design Community Partners Discussion Guideopens PDF file (PDF)
- opens in a new windowResilient by Design Community Partners Facilitator Guideopens PDF file (PDF)
- opens in a new windowResilient by Design System and State Discussion Guideopens PDF file (PDF)
- opens in a new windowResilient by Design System and State Facilitator Guideopens PDF file (PDF)
opens in a new windowDeRionne P. Pollard, Ph.D.
President & CEO
American Association of Community Colleges, DC
opens in a new windowLeigh Goodson, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Tulsa Community College, OK
2025–26 Chair, AACC Board of Directors
opens in a new windowRussell Lowery-Hart, Ph.D.
Chancellor
Austin Community College District, TX
opens in a new windowSunita “Sunny” Cooke, Ph.D.
Superintendent/President, MiraCosta College, CA
Past Chair, AACC Board of Directors