Marcia Ballinger

President of Lorain County Community College and an Aspen fellowship alumna and mentor. She leads student-success, workforce, and economic-mobility initiatives through data-informed institutional change, university partnerships, and employer collaboration.

Community-College Reform Shifts From Completion to Post-Graduation Outcomes

Community-college reform should be judged not only by access and completion, but by what happens to students after graduation, argues Marcia Ballinger, president of Lorain County Community College. Ballinger, Russell Lowery-Hart of Austin Community College District and Falecia Williams of Prince George’s Community College describe the Aspen fellowship as training leaders to confront institutional data, build reform agendas with peers, and tie student outcomes to their colleges’ economic role in their communities.

The Aspen InstituteSep 16, 20263 min read