Category Archives: Blog

Belongingness Still Matters

Belongingness Still Matters

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...
Educational Access: Proximity Matters

Educational Access: Proximity Matters

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...
Course Modalities = Flexibility

Course Modalities = Flexibility

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...
The In-Person Difference

The In-Person Difference

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!

540!

Chris Gray, Ph.D. Founding President, Erie County Community College of Pennsylvania 540 students enrolled! Wow! Yet another extraordinary moment to commemorate here! Who could have imagined, just twenty-eight months ago, that this experiment would work? EC3 was born...
Honoring Black History Month

Honoring Black History Month

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...