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Founding President, Christopher Gray Ph.D., recalls his first day at EC3PA and is excited for the second year to come.

Chris Gray Ph.D. discusses our new EC3 Erie West location and announces we have passed the first review from MSCHE.

Founding President Christopher Gray Ph.D. announces two new IT programs to start this fall at EC3PA!

Founding President, Chris Gray, announces the new surgical technology program launching Fall 2022.

Chris Gray reflects on the past year in his role as Founding President at Erie County Community College of PA.

Dr. Gray explains the evolution of higher education and how educators should have been adapting all along by helping students succeed in college rather than sink-or-swim.

Dr. Gray discusses his recent visit to Lincoln Electric and their outstanding Welding program. Slowly but surely, we are making a dream come true. Our community: your college.

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.

Our first year together has seen EC3PA finding its rhythm and forming a solid foundation on which to build and grow.  Our next steps involve expanding to provide more of the kinds of programs that our students and our community need as we keep our eyes on the future. 

It’s no surprise that, as we close the door on EC3PA’s first academic year, we once again shift our focus forward to what comes next. With the spring semester finished, next up on our immediate radar is the process of launching our first summer session. We’ve timed this session to begin immediately following Memorial Day and to end before August, thereby giving students some downtime both before and after this abbreviated semester.