Recently, the Aurora Economic Development Council hosted its annual A-List Gala. Sugar Ray Leonard served as the keynote speaker this year, and Daphne (Dr. Mordecai’s wife) joined Dr. Mordecai in representing the Community College of Aurora. To learn more about AEDC, please visit: https://www.auroraedc.com/
Dr. Linda Bowman, third president of the Community College of Aurora stopped by CCA in preparation for the college’s 40th anniversary celebration program. Linda, thank you for all you have done for CCA and your continued words of wisdom.
20 years ago, Dr. Joseph Silver served as a founding director of the Leadership & Mentorship Institute. Dr. Mordecai Brownlee was admitted into the Institute in 2017 on full scholarship. To learn more about this engine that prepares African Americans to advance in their service to higher education, please visit: https://lmiexperience.org/
This past weekend, Dr. Mordecai attended the Leadership & Mentorship Institute 20 year anniversary celebration. While there, he was surprised with the honor of being named the recipient of the Dr. Joseph H. Silver, Sr. LMI Alumni Award! President Brownlee is only the third person to receive this award.
Twenty years ago, Dr. Silver served as the Founding Director of the Leadership and Mentorship Institute, a training academy to prepare African Americans to serve higher education with excellence. Thank you to Dr. Silver, Dr. Barbara Johnson, Dr. Henrietta Pichon, and Dr. Roland Smith for this amazing honor.
The Community College of Aurora is in the house! This week, Dr. Mordecai spoke at the Workforce Development Conference hosted by the South Metro Denver Chamber.
The Community College of Aurora was honored to host the Colorado Legislative Democratic Caucus! For more than an hour, the Caucus granted Dr. Mordecai the opportunity to discuss CCA’s efforts to fight poverty through our vision to be the college where every student succeeds. HUGE thank you to Rep. Mandy Lindsay for making this opportunity possible!
Thank you Aurora Public Schools Board Member Michael Carter and his son, Jaden Carter, for stopping by the office this afternoon. Board Member Carter is an alum of Community College of Aurora and Jaden is currently taking concurrent enrolment courses at CCA!
This week, the Community College of Aurora was honored to host the ECMC Foundation on campus! President Brownlee discussed the future of CCA, our history, and CCA’s commitment to social and economic mobility.
The Community College of Aurora is joining forces with the Arapahoe/Douglas Workforce Development Board and the Colorado Workforce Development Council to support Workforce Development Month. Together, we are putting our community to work. #WorkforceDev2023
Over the next 10 months, Dr. Mordecai Brownlee will participate in this community engagement program hosted by the Aurora Chamber of Commerce. To learn more, please visit: https://www.aurorachamber.org/
American Association of Community College Future Leaders alum, Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee, presenting to the 2023 AACC Future Leaders Institute and Future Presidents Institute cohorts in Denver, Colorado this week. To learn more, please visit: https://www.aacc.nche.edu/events/aacc-leadership-suite/
Thank you Colorado State Treasurer Dave Young for stopping by and visiting with the Community College of Aurora!!! We are so grateful for your leadership and support.
This week, Dr. Mordecai met with Jennifer Allen-Thomas, Mayor Pro Tem of Commerce City, Colorado. Remarkably, her father was the first African American male elected to city council, and she is the first African American female elected. Living history indeed!
Recently, the Community College of Aurora was honored to host a delegation of educators, executives, and community leaders from Senegal. Thank you to Papa Dia (Founder and President of African Leadership Group), Becky Hogan (Former First Lady of Aurora, Colorado & Community Leader), and Madiama Mbaye for facilitating yesterday’s dialogue.
Recently, Dr. Mordecai Brownlee had an amazing sit down with the new Aurora Public Schools Superintendent Michael Giles Jr. The future of Aurora's K-12 to higher education pathway is BRIGHT! APS and the Community College of Aurora are bound to accomplish great things together. Let's go, Aurora!
“But more will be needed to help sustain and accelerate that work, said Mordecai Brownlee, president of the Community College of Aurora. Brownlee, who praised Cardona and the state for the focus on helping students find a path to a job, said the students he serves, mostly low-income Black and Hispanic people, also need money for short-term training and certificate programs — the equivalent of a semester or less of college but enough to get the training for better-paying jobs. And they need more information about what job opportunities are available to them, he said.
Without the financial support, “they’re having to come out of pocket, they’re having to find the scholarship, or they have to find somebody to pay for it,” Brownlee said.”
