Editor’s note: Photos submitted by AACC-member colleges.

In Ohio, Edison State Community College President Doreen Larson, her husband, Len, and their dog Kyle lead Edison State student-athletes in the Tipp City Mum Festival Parade. (Edison State)

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) visits Berkshire Community College and gets a full tour with President Ellen Kennedy, staff and students, which included seeing the nursing lab and its new anatomy Anatomage Table. (Photo: BCC)

Bill Seymour (right), president of Cleveland State Community College in Tennessee, with Gov. Bill Haslam and local K-12 and Cleveland State staff at the Completion Communities Summit. (Photo: Cleveland State)

State Reps. Marcia Hahn and Steve Samuelson join Northampton Community College President Mark Erickson for the Pennsylvania college’s opening of its Follett Family Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. (Photo: NCC)

Members of Illinois’ Oakton Community College baseball team receive their 2018 national championship rings. (Photo: OCC)

The first day of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s SmarterRoads Hackathon and Idea Jam Series at Germanna Community College’s Fredericksburg Center for Advanced Technology. (Photo: GCC)

At East Mississippi Community College, local residents wait for a jobs fair with Peco Foods, one of the largest poultry producers in the U.S., which will open a local plant later this year. (Photo: EMCC)

In Kansas, Butler Community College student Zebadiah Campbell is a finalist for a College Broadcasters, Inc. award in the category of regularly scheduled audio program for his morning show, “That One Morning Show,” which he produces. (Photo: BCC)