The Illinois Community College Trustees Association is celebrating 30 years of providing legislative advocacy and educational opportunities for college board members

Welcome to ICCTA!
Since 1971, the Illinois Community College Trustees Association has provided legislative advocacy and educational opportunities for college boards. Even if you're not a trustee, you can join ICCTA as an Associate Member or a Lifetime Member.


ICCTA's 39th annual convention

  • Board Highlights
  • Award winners
  • Award nominees
  • Thank you to our sponsors:
         -- Legat Architects (Bronze sponsor)
         -- Illinois Community College System
             Foundation
    (Paul Simon Student          Essay Contest sponsor)

    Legislative updates
  • ICCTA's latest Action Alert
  • ICCTA resolution supporting an income
          tax increase for education funding
  • Lobby Day fact sheet
  • FY10 Gov's budget recommendation
  • FY10 capital projects list
  • 2009 state legislative goals
  • 2009 operating grants summary
  • 2009 federal priorities
  • Past state and federal Alerts
  • Click here to join our alert list

    ICCTA publications
  • May 2009 Board Highlights
  • Welcome to the Board handbook
  • 2007 economic impact study
  • 2007 economic impact fact sheet
  • 2009 Community College Act
  • What is a community college trustee?
  • Past ICCTA Board Highlights
  • Why Ethics Matters, Part 1 & Part 2
  • ICCTA seminar highlights
  • Model ethics policy
  • Guidelines for board self-evaluation
  • Recording of closed sessions

  • Elgin trustee Clare Ollayos
    earns Ray Hartstein Award


    Elgin trustee Dr. Clare Ollayos accepts ICCTA's 2009 
Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award from award namesake Ray Hartstein (left) and ICCTA past president 
Jeff May.

    Elgin Community College trustee Dr. Clare Ollayos (above, with award namesake Ray Hartstein and ICCTA past president Jeff May) was honored with the 2009 Ray Hartstein Trustee Achievement Award during ICCTA's June 5-6 convention in Chicago. To read more about Dr. Ollayos' accomplishments, click here.


    Prairie State student wins
    ICCTA's student essay contest


    Prairie State College student Favian Apata 
accepts her $500 Paul Simon Student Essay scholarship from State Sen. Toi Hutchinson.

    Prairie State College student Favian Apata (left) is the winner of ICCTA's 2009 Paul Simon Student Essay Contest. She accepted her $500 scholarship prize (donated by the Illinois Community College System Foundation) from State Sen. Toi Hutchinson during ICCTA's June 5 awards luncheon in Chicago. Apata's essay was entitled Up from the Ashes.

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    Learn about one of ICCTA's partners, OrganizAmerica

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    Springfield, IL 62701-1711
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