The College
The Community College of Aurora is a vibrant, growing, diverse, urban community college committed to student engagement, innovative teaching and a global, multicultural perspective on learning. The college has built a reputation of excellence by cultivating a “family” culture which values students, faculty and staff and achieves its goals by maintaining a supportive, empowering environment that emphasizes flexibility and shared decision making. CCA offers over 50 degree and certificate programs that prepare 9,000 students for entry into the work force or transfer to baccalaureate-granting institutions. CCA operates on two campuses, the CentreTech campus in central Aurora and the Lowry campus on the Aurora/Denver border. The college’s student body is truly diverse with nearly half of all students identified as racial or ethnic minorities and a large and growing number of students with first languages other than English.
The Community
Aurora, Colorado is a city of 307,000, the third largest city in Colorado and a suburb of Denver, gateway to the beautiful Rocky Mountains. The Denver metropolitan area enjoys a high quality of life with a wide variety of cultural and recreational opportunities and excellent public schools, colleges and universities. The Southeast Denver/Aurora Corridor, home to the Community College of Aurora, boasts the region’s most diverse immigrant communities. Russian bookstores, African centers, European marts, Korean restaurants, English acquisition centers, synagogues, mosques and Orthodox churches abound.