Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education

CCCIE is comprised of a national Blue Ribbon Panel of community colleges and experts in the field of immigrant education committed to meeting the educational needs of immigrant students. Read more about CCCIE’s key initiatives in immigrant higher education, its mission and objectives, and how you can become a member.

CCCIE Helps Plan National Immigrant Integration Conference

The 5^th Annual National Immigrant Integration Conference is scheduled for September 22-25 2012 in Baltimore, MD.   CCCIE Executive Director Tere Wisell serves on the NIIC Advisory Committee, positioning CCCIE to highlight the role of community colleges in the field of immigrant education and bring more community college leadership to the conference.   Click here to register for the conference. To submit proposals for presentations, contact Anna Anderson at aanderson@casamd.org.

Alamo Colleges' Workforce Literacy Summit 

CCCIE will be a sponsor for the 3^rd Annual Workforce Literacy Summit hosted by BRP member Alamo Colleges on August 8-10, 2012. The Summit will focus on Curriculum Innovations, Career Pathways, Partnerships and Best Practices in Transitions and Completion and will be a forum for sharing what we have learned and where we will go from here.  Click here to express your interest in attending.

At This Year's AACC Conference-

CCCIE's Tere Wisell and Jill Casner-Lotto, the Migration Policy Institute's Sarah Hooker, and Blue Ribbon Panel member Jeannett Manzanero presented the challenges and the most promising practices and policies in immigrant education at the 92nd annual convention of the American Association of Community Colleges held in Orlando, April 21-24.   Click here to view their presentation and Read more about it in the Chronicle of Higher Education.     

CCCIE In the News                          

Our major report, Increasing Opportunities for Immigrant Students: Community College Strategies for Success was featured recently in an article published in the May 7th 2012 issue of Hispanic Outlook.  Read more...  This issue also highlights the Top 100 Colleges for Hispanics, BRP Member South Texas College's Graduate On Time (GOT) program and Lumina Foundation Award winner Miami Dade's services to Hispanic Students and their families.