In The Media

Community College of Philadelphia has announced that its Gateway to College program has received a Graduation Achievement Award from Achieving the Dream (ATD).

6ABC covered the final session of the College’s Jr. STEM Academy Drones Camp that took place Thursday, July 28. During the final session, students in grades six to eight demonstrated their mastery of drone piloting.

Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) is introducing students to the possibility of a career in truck driving through a new non-credit Commercial Truck Driving program.

A Community College of Philadelphia graduate is giving back to the college to say thank you, and to help a new generation of students. “I think you know we all have, in one way, shape or form, superpowers,” Gunter Pfau said.

On Tuesday, Community College of Philadelphia hosted its Pride Picnic and drag story hour with one of Philadelphia’s favorite drag queens: Eric Jaffe. Jaffe was named Philadelphia’s Drag Queen of the Year 2018 and Performer of the Year 2020.

6ABC covered the College’s Pride Picnic and drag story hour with one of Philadelphia’s favorite drag queens: Eric Jaffe. The event was sponsored by the College’s Women’s Outreach and Advocacy Center and the MarcDavid LGBTQ Center.

6ABC covered the College’s new program-to-program transfer partnership with Rowan University. Eligible College students will receive scholarships to reduce their cost of attendance to in-state rates.

The Community College of Philadelphia announced it is paying off nearly 1.5 million dollars in student debt. NBC10’s Brian Sheehan has the story.

Community College of Philadelphia just expanded once again. On Monday, June 6, the College hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its brand new Spring Garden Records Studio.

6ABC Action News covered the College’s ribbon cutting introducing the Spring Garden Records studio.

Community College of Philadelphia Foundation hosted the 2022 Black & Gold Gala earlier this week. Emceed by 6-ABC’s Rick Williams, the gala took place at Vie by Cescaphe.

A new collaboration with Community College of Philadelphia’s programs in Black Studies and International Education will create thought partnership among students in what is emerging as a Philadelphia-area and Ghana-based Black Studies consortium

And I'll be talking about the how Community College of Philadelphia is transforming lives and how you can help. I speak to student Brian Walsh who went from homelessness to achieving a 4.0 average at CCP.

6ABC Action News covered the College Foundation’s Black & Gold Gala that took place on Wednesday, June 1 at Vie by Cescaphe.

Meet Rashad: a young man with a plan to go to Community College of Philadelphia.

6ABC Action News covered the College’s Team Healthcare event aimed at introducing elementary school students to careers in the Allied Health fields.

6ABC Action News covered the College’s 2022 Commencement ceremony.

It was CCP's first in-person commencement since 2019 due to the pandemic.

When I was in middle school, I loved watching Who’s the Boss starring Tony Danza and Judith Light. Light’s character, Angela Bower, was an advertising executive who pitched big ideas for commercials to her company. In my mind, this type of job only existed on television.

May Yaghnam, a Community College of Philadelphia student and mother of four, almost dropped out of school and gave up on earning a degree because she couldn’t find affordable child care during class time.

As President of Community College of Philadelphia, Donald Guy Generals steers the city’s only public institution of higher education, serving roughly 25,000 students, from career transitioners to high school students in a dual enrollment partnership with the School District of Philadelphia.

Community College of Philadelphia and the City of Philadelphia have expanded the eligibility criteria to accept more Philadelphia residents into the Octavius Catto Scholarship.

The Community College of Philadelphia’s Center on Disability recently heard back from an alum in a big way. Entrepreneur Gunter Pfau, who graduated in 2002, made a donation of $100,000 to show appreciation for the help the center gave him.

Three Community College of Philadelphia students have been announced as semifinalists for the highly competitive Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. The students were selected from a pool of more than 1,200 applicants attending 180 community colleges in 35 states. To date, seven College students have been awarded the prestigious scholarship.