AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders

Requesting Feedback to inform the Revision of the AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders

The AACC Competencies for Community College Leaders highlights the leadership skills needed to be effective in today’s community college. Many institutions use this document as a central part of employee development.

The association will host several feedback sessions to gather information from the field to inform the fifth edition, which we project will be available in late fall 2025.

The audience size for each session is limited to facilitate in-depth conversations. If you are unsure whether you can attend the discussion, we request that you send us written feedback instead of taking a seat from someone who can participate. You may email your feedback to opens in a new windowamroyal@aacc.nche.educreate new email with the subject line 5^th Edition Competencies.

Each convening is based on a job position(s) to give AACC a better perspective of the challenges and opportunities that these positions experience.

Each focus group will address several questions below.

1. What is not addressed in the fourth edition that needs to be included in the fifth edition?
2. Are any focus areas combined in the fourth edition that should be separated and presented as a separate category within the document?
3. Is there anything in the document that should be sunset?
4. What do faculty moving into department chair roles need to know?
5. What do chairs moving into department dean roles need to know?
6. What do trustees look for in new and veteran CEOs when hiring?
7. What skills do you look for when hiring executives, chairs, deans, and faculty for your college?

Department Chairs

opens in a new windowJuly 8 – 1:00 – 2:15 PM ET

Department Deans

opens in a new windowJuly 9 – 1:00 – 2:15 PM ET

Provosts/Chief Academic Officers

opens in a new windowJuly 14 – 1:00 – 2:15 PM ET

Chief Student Affairs Officers

opens in a new windowJuly 16 – 1:45 – 3:00 PM

Chief Workforce Development Officers

opens in a new windowJuly 16 – 12:00 – 1:15 PM ET

New CEOs (campus presidents, district presidents/chancellors, president, chancellor)
New CEOs – in the first three years on the job

opens in a new windowJuly 1 – 1:30 – 2:45 PM ET
opens in a new windowJuly 23 – 1:00 – 2:15 PM ET

Trustees (elected)

opens in a new windowJuly 31 – 1:45 – 3:00 PM

Trustees (appointed)

opens in a new windowJuly 24 – 12:00 – 1:15 PM