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The Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to represent the interests of its 14 community colleges. Throughout our 40 year history, Pennsylvania’s community colleges have been continuously providing a high quality, low cost education through rich and diverse opportunities and experiences for students and our communities based on our fundamental mission:
- Open access and focus on student goal attainment
- Low price (tuition and required fees)
- Low cost (as measured by cost per student)
- Flexibility and responsiveness to client needs (student, employers, others)
- Focus on the needs of a specific community (local or regional)
- Open-provider perspective (partnership with schools, universities, others)
In order to carry out the purpose of the organization, the Commission supports the following activities:
- assisting the colleges in developing positions on issues of concern to them and to their constituencies
- advocating the needs and positions of the colleges as a whole
- facilitating the exchange of information among the colleges and their various staff organizations
- collecting or coordinating the collection and dissemination of data necessary to fulfill the purposes of the colleges
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