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Commencement 2026: More than a ceremony

June 10, 2026

Last week nearly 5,000 graduates, guests, faculty, staff, administrators, trustees, and elected officials gathered on the CCBC Essex campus to celebrate a tradition of 69‑years: the Commencement ceremony. The event, beautifully choreographed and staged, honored a class of 3,148 graduates, with roughly 1,000 of them proudly walking across the stage to receive a diploma in person. This impressive scene always…

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A thoughtful and thankful Thanksgiving

November 22, 2021

I write to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving.  The pandemic remains a factor in our lives, but far less than last year when many of our Thanksgiving dinners were enjoyed with family members via zoom, rather than in person. Now that we are more in hybrid mode and slowly feeling our way back into sociability, I encourage each of…

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