Community Colleges
Founded in 1901, this is the oldest public junior college in the United States.
What is a Joliet Junior College?
This was the original name for the American Association of Community Colleges.
What is the American Association of Junior Colleges?
This retired baseball player and his wife—both Alvin Community College alum—received the Outstanding Alumni Award in 2016.
Who is Nolan Ryan?
Circle in Washington DC where AACC resides.
What is Dupont Circle?
This hockey team lost to the Washington Capitals in the final Stanley Cup game.
Who are the Las Vegas Golden Knights?
The earliest junior colleges were largely private and grew out of these institutions.
What are high schools?
This is the year that AACC was founded.
What is 1920?
This Joy Luck Club author and 2008 Outstanding Alumni Award recipient attended San Jose City College.
Who is Amy Tan?
The publishing frequency of the Community College Daily.
What is daily?
A pocket park near AACC's office is dedicated to this celebrity-turned-politician.
Who is Sonny Bono?
In 1960 this foundation announced a series of grants to be used to establish university centers for training two-year college leaders.
What is the Kellogg Foundation?
Building a nation of learners by advancing America's community colleges.
What is the AACC mission statement?
This actor, who died this year, attended Palm Beach Junior College—what is now Palm Beach State College—after playing football at Florida State University.
Who is Burt Reynolds?
A current AACC statistical publication which was first published in 2013.
What is DataPoints?
DC citizens drink more of this per capita than any other U.S. state.
What is wine?
In 1862, this act expanded access to higher education and provided eligible states with 30,000 acres of federal land.
What is the Morrill or Land Grant Act?
She serves as AACC’s current board chair.
Who is Sandra Kurtinitis?
Actor Tom Hanks attended this community college.
What is Chabot College?
This was the theme of the 2009 Annual Convention.
What is “Diversity: Our vision. Our value.”?
He is the only U.S. president buried in Washington, DC.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The country’s largest community college, by enrollment.
What is Miami Dade College?
The year that AACJC drops the junior from its name, a reference to junior colleges.
What is 1992?
This astronaut and Corning Community College graduate received the AACC Outstanding Alumni Award in 1995.
Who is Eileen Collins?
Named to the role in 1991, he was the first association president to have graduated from a community college.
Who is David Pierce?
The fountain in Dupont Circle honors this naval officer.
Who is Samuel Francis Du Pont?