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    Becoming the College of First Choice

    Becoming the College of First Choice

    Notes from the President Chris Gray, Ph.D. | Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennslyvania In the world of higher education, community colleges are often dismissed as the school of last resort. Because we are open-access institutions, we take all...

    Proactive Registration

    Proactive Registration

    Hope feels like such a small and insignificant thing when the world feels so bleak, but it’s still there, flickering in the gloom. Our EC3PA students are harbingers of what our world could become, and I vest my hope in them — that they will wrestle that better world into existence.

    Paying for College

    Paying for College

    Notes from the President Chris Gray, Ph.D | Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania With the recent student loan forgiveness announcement by the Biden administration this week, there has been a lot of talk in the news about which borrowers...

    When and How to Start: Academic Advisors

    When and How to Start: Academic Advisors

    Notes from the President Chris Gray, Ph.D | Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania My very first post here in the EC3PA blog was titled Just Start, and I used that space to share my unlikely journey from small-town kid to college president....

    Getting Ready

    Getting Ready

    Notes from the President Chris Gray, Ph.D. l Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania At the time of this writing, we are just over a week out from the beginning of the Fall 2022 semester. For many colleagues, this is the busiest week of the...