Canadian Partnership Perspectives

The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) is the national, voluntary membership organization created in 1972 to represent colleges and institutes to government, business and industry, both in Canada and internationally.

With an Ottawa-based Secretariat, ACCC interacts with federal departments and agencies on the members' behalf and links college capabilities to national industries. As another part of its mandate, ACCC organizes conferences and workshops for college staff, students and Board members to facilitate networking and participation in national and international activities such as sector studies, awards programs and linkages.

This Section includes corporate information on:

• Vision, Mission, Values and Operating Principles
• Structure and Overview of the Organization
• ACCC Structure, Overview and Governance Model
• Secretariat Structure and Departmental Responsibilities

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The partnership approach it has initiated with competing groups in the national as well as in the international context has given the organization an environment of trust where it can work more effectively for the colleges. Partnerships with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), World University Service of Canada (WUSC), Universalia, and Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) are just examples of productive collaborative efforts to improve the educational image of Canada in the world market and to bring a more coherent Canadian educational voice to the world.
Internationally, ACCC has forged linkages with other national organizations involved in technical and vocational education. Many representatives from these organizations attended the last annual conference. As nations now form blocs with each other to meet the challenges of the world economy, ACCC aims to develop more experience in this multinational bidding environment for international financial institution projects. The growth of the organization over the past years and the growing credibility it has in the national and international scene, as well as the working partnerships it has established, place ACCC in a stable position to develop a plan of operation which will respond to the emerging priorities and challenges facing the college/institute system in today's rapidly changing environment.

An article on Risk Management , Canadian College Partnership Program for you to browse through which may offer you some perspective on collaboration. The link provided below.

http://www.accc.ca/ftp/pubs/International/International-11-1.pdf