2026 College Changes Everything (CCE) Conference

Bring your intention, commitment, and passion as we explore this year's powerful and dual-sided theme: Education Matters.
About this Event

Through conversations, storytelling, best practices, and calls to action, the College Changes Everything® (CCE) Conference offers a space for learning, advocacy, and action. This year, for our 16th gathering, we call upon you to join us with intention, commitment, and passion as we explore this year’s powerful and dual-sided theme: Education Matters.

Education is consequential, transformative and urgent; it is the ladder of opportunity that helps transform lives. And, matters of education – the systems, policies, and barriers – require our attention and collective action.

Whether you work directly with students or are a part of shaping the systems they navigate, CCE 2026 is your opportunity to be part of that conversation, not as a passive observer, but as a contributor, change agent, and student advocate as we explore:

• Which policies are quietly harming our students, and how do we work within imperfect systems while simultaneously pushing to change them?
• How do we dismantle the visible and invisible barriers that prevent students from accessing the education they deserve?
• How do we move from isolated programs to scalable institutional change that allows us to build educational ecosystems where innovation is not the exception, but the expectation?
• If education truly matters, what are we willing to change about our institutions, our practices, and ourselves, to prove it?

Come ready to be challenged, inspired and most importantly, to act.