SSCCC - Student Senate for California Community Colleges
SSCCC's platform gives 1.8 million community college students a formal voice in California policy.
The Student Senate for California Community Colleges is the 501(c)(3) organization that represents every student in the largest higher education system in the country, from campus delegates to the statewide Board of Directors. Aero designed and built its Drupal platform and continues to support it as the public face of student governance — meeting notices, legislation tracking, resolutions, and conference organizing all run through the site.
Four audiences, one site, leadership that changes yearly.
SSCCC's website has to work for students, elected delegates, college administrators, and legislators at the same time, each looking for different things. It publishes governance material with real accountability weight: meeting agendas and minutes, bylaws, public comment opportunities, legislative positions. All of it must stay ADA-compliant and secure, and all of it is maintained by student leaders who hand the keys to a new cohort every year. The platform can't depend on institutional memory, because at SSCCC there isn't much of it by design.
Runs statewide student governance in the open.
The site is built for publication by rotating student teams, with a clear information hierarchy and flexible tools that Aero keeps current and secure behind the scenes. Day to day, it carries the full workload of a statewide governance body:
Publishes meetings
Board and committee agendas, minutes, and Zoom access are posted on a public schedule anyone can follow.
Tracks legislation
Legislative priorities, bill tracking, and analyses show where SSCCC stands on active policy in Sacramento and Washington.
Archives resolutions
Every resolution passed by the student body is searchable by year, session, and keyword, with the process itself documented.
Organizes conferences
Advocacy Academy, General Assembly, and other statewide events are promoted with dates, venues, and detail pages students can act on.
Connects ten regions
Each of California's community college regions has its own page linking students to local officers and initiatives.
Keeps records public
Bylaws, policies, finance documents, MOUs, and three newsletters give any visitor a direct line into how the organization operates.
A platform that outlasts every graduating class.
Student government has a built-in expiration date: officers serve, graduate, and move on, and the next board inherits everything mid-stride. The platform is designed around that turnover, so publishing stays simple enough for each new cohort to pick up quickly while Aero handles security, accessibility, and the infrastructure underneath. As SSCCC's advocacy expands from the statehouse to Congress, the site is positioned to carry more — more events, more legislative tracking, more regions organizing in public — without asking student leaders to become web specialists first.
