2026 Presidential Search

Open Forum with the College Community Schedule

Institutional Profile

Atlantic Cape Community College is an open-access community college serving Atlantic and Cape May counties. Accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the College has supported Southern New Jersey for more than 60 years and now enrolls over 7,000 students each year across campuses in Mays Landing, Atlantic City, and Cape May County. Atlantic Cape is proudly designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution. Atlantic Cape’s vision reflects the College’s long-standing commitment to diversity, equity, and student success. Our work is grounded in the values of integrity, caring, accountability, respect, and excellence. It is guided by a strategic plan focused on engagement, holistic support, academic quality, achievement, and institutional effectiveness.

Challenges and Opportunities

• Understand and work effectively within the communities that comprise our college’s service area, increasing partnerships with businesses and industry and lead the development of credit and workforce programs that respond to the region’s changing needs and equip students with credentials that lead to gainful employment and careers.
• Successfully market the value of Atlantic Cape Community College to the region as a preferred partner, enhance community outreach to increase enrollment, garner legislative support and advocacy, and improve philanthropic investment.
• Inspire, motivate and engage all constituent units of the college, enhance communication, collegiality, and transparency, increase college-wide accountability and tailor support to address the unique needs and challenges of our college’s three locations.
• Lead a sustainable commitment to institutional diversity, equity and inclusion efforts through programs and holistic services that support recruitment, increase retention, and completion rates for all students.
• Collaborate with faculty and staff to expand online, hybrid, and remote instruction and leverage technology, including AI, to improve institutional efficiency and productivity.

Ideal Characteristics

Atlantic Cape Community College's ideal candidate will be a visionary, innovative and collaborative leader who is committed to excellence and is/has:

• A visionary dedicated to providing exceptional academic offerings, transfer programs and career technical education for all students.
• An educational leader with extensive experience developing innovative coalitions to recruit and retain students to increase enrollment, student success and completion.
• An entrepreneurial thinker who understands workforce needs and is experienced developing programs based on the workforce needs of the region.
• A successful fundraiser who is experienced working with college foundations and donors.
• An ambassador of our college who has demonstrated success building relationships with local, state and federal legislators and other political entities.
• A charismatic and accessible champion of our college who will become involved throughout the community and build relationships with community members.
• A strategic data informed risk-taker who will prioritize needs and simultaneously embrace both change and continuity.
• An inclusive leader who recognizes diversity as an asset and strength of our college.
• A fiscally astute leader with experience effectively managing budgets across a large and complex organization, especially during periods of fiscal constraint.
• A student-centered leader with an ability to relate well to all students and understand the needs of first-generation students, under-represented students, veterans and students with disabilities, and mental health challenges.
• An experienced manager who will prioritize and address infrastructure, facilities and technology needs.
• Extensive experience with regional accreditation and specialized licensure programs.
• Expand and enhance relationships with PK-12 systems including technical and charter schools in the development and implementation of partnerships and articulation agreements with colleges and universities.
• Experience building relationships with schools and social agencies for program-related, unpaid internships.
• Proven experience collaborating with unions and collective bargaining units and an understanding and commitment to the tenets of shared governance.
• An academic leader with classroom teaching experience with an understanding of current instructional pedagogy, delivery methods, and evolving technology.
• An administrator experienced working with a Board of Trustees.
• A collaborative team-builder who values input, is open to new ideas, and respects and supports faculty, staff and administrators.
• A respectful, honest, approachable and open-minded leader committed to transparency and values input from faculty, staff, administrators, students and members of the community.
• An administrator who can participate and achieve leadership roles in community, state, and national organizations affiliated with the mission of the college.
• An appreciation for the role of athletics in the community college and support of scholar athletes.
• A demonstrated commitment to assessment, continuous improvement, and innovation in the college. 

Presidential Search Timeline

Presidential Search Committee

Board Chairperson - ex officio

• Trustee Daniel L. Money, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees 

Presidential Search Committee Chairperson

• Trustee Donald J. Parker, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees

Members

• Professor Michael Bolicki, Professor of Social Science, Atlantic Cape Community College
• Trustee Flora Castillo, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees 
• Trustee Christina Clemans, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees 
• Trustee Rev. Dr. Thomas Dawson, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees 
• Dr. Laurie Lemons, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Collegiate Assembly Executive Committee Chair, Atlantic Cape Community College
• Mr. Clive Morgan, President, Atlantic Cape Community College Student Government Association (SGA) 
• Mr. Caesar Niglio, Director of Enterprise Applications & President of ACCCEA, Atlantic Cape Community College
• Mr. James Reina, Superintendent, Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District 
• Trustee James Rutala, President, Atlantic Cape Foundation
• Trustee Barbara Stafford Jones, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees 
• Mr. Sherwood Taylor, Dean of Workforce Development, College & Career Pathways, Atlantic Cape Community College 
• Trustee Maria Ivette Torres, Atlantic Cape Community College Board of Trustees 

Presidential Search Committee Administrative Support

• Ms. Jean McAlister, Chief of Staff/Board Secretary, Atlantic Cape Community College