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    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...

    On the Knife’s Edge

    On the Knife’s Edge

    Notes from the President Chris Gray, Ph.D. l Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania A trip to urgent care. A last-minute childcare cancellation. Even a flat tire! In some cases, that's all it takes to irrevocably derail a student’s journey....