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San Antonio College has won this year’s top prize for community college excellence from the Aspen Institute. It was selected out of the more than 1,000 community colleges nationwide for the 2021 Aspen Prize.
“Pinch me, I think I’m dreaming,” SAC President Robert Vela said when he first heard the news. “Did I really wake up this morning?”
Vela said the Aspen Prize is the culmination of six years of effort to improve outcomes for students. He said the award will inspire the SAC student body to also shoot for excellence.
“This award will validate that for them, to say, ‘You will not settle for anything. You will receive the best when you attend San Antonio College or any one of the Alamo Colleges.’ That’s transformational for a first-time-in-college student that never had in their minds or thought that higher ed was for them,” he said.