Erie County Community College
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College Earlier this week, the solar eclipse was the big excitement here in Erie as everyone came together to witness four-ish minutes of totality. This was the last total solar eclipse that will be visible...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania A recurrent theme in my blogs is that proximity to education is an access issue, making it an equity issue. What I mean here is that the distance that potential students have to...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania In my last blog, I talked about the difference it can make to students’ educational experiences when they visit college campuses in person. I firmly believe that the best way to get to...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College We are just about halfway through the first eight-week spring session as I sit down to write on this February 29, Leap Day. Time is moving swiftly, and we’ve already turned our sights to recruitment...
540 students enrolled! Wow! Yet another extraordinary moment to commemorate here!
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania I’ve been seeing lots of posts in my social media feed recently about January and just how long it feels. There were jokes about how it's the 47th day of January already, and the...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College We’re just a few weeks away from the launch of our third EC3 Spring semester, and the excitement builds a little more each day. At the time of this writing, we are just eighteen days away from the...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College Happy New Year! We’re back at work here at EC3 and preparing for another exciting semester. In keeping with this time of year, I wanted to mention an exciting development for us as a college. We...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College The darkest day of the year is just about the corner, and the holidays are all but upon us. The next couple of days are the darkest and busiest time of the year in the northern hemisphere. ...
Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College No one understands freedom of speech. Bold claim, I know, but hear me out. There’s a lot of chatter lately about “restoring” freedom of speech, accompanied by vague references to the First Amendment...