Mission
Who We Are
California Community Colleges are organized into eight economic regions and served by eight regional consortia across the state. The Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) is comprised of 28 colleges surrounding the San Francisco and Monterey Bays and serves as a framework to:
- Facilitate, collaborate, and inform career education program investments.
- Support regional K-14/16 career pathways to prepare students for high demand, livable wage jobs.
- Engage with employers to inform curriculum, programs, apprenticeships, and workbased learning that address the workforce needs of our local economy.
- Advocate for career education policy and initiatives as the liaison between our colleges and the Chancellor’s Office Workforce and Economic Development Division.
- Administer Regional Strong Workforce Program funding as the fiscal agent for both community college and K-12 partners across the region.
Partners
Strengthening alignment through strategic partnerships allows us to better serve our region’s students and communities. BACCC leverages regional resources and collaborative efforts to prepare and connect students to meaningful, livable wage careers that provide economic mobility and agency. Our partnerships focus on:
- Designing scalable and stackable academic and career pathways that propel Bay Region students to careers with mobility and security, not just entry-level access.
- Embedding culturally sustaining practices into industry-aligned curricula so diverse students see their identities as assets in STEM labs, nursing programs, and apprenticeships.
- Honoring students’ experiences as valuable knowledge in academic spaces and awarding Credit for Prior Learning (CPL) for relevant work and lived experiences.
- Forging partnerships with employers that go beyond job placement to address hiring biases, promote inclusive workplaces, and recognize bilingualism as professional capital.
- Engaging with community partners in ways that build trust and collaboration to develop regional strategies to address education and workforce development challenges and opportunities.
Our partners include K-12 districts, Workforce Development boards, Adult Ed, industry partners and associations, K-16 Collaboratives, transfer institutions, and community based organizations, among others.