One of things that I believe almost everyone wants is a sense of being a part of a community. In a traditional college setting, there is an infrastructure in place to assist in building that community. In the career focus sector, I haven’t found too many places that build a community. To be fair, most students who attend a career college just want to learn the basics tenets of their program. They have little or no time to get socially involved. However, there is a pocket that does seek out the social component of a collegiate career. At my institution, a collaboration of faculty and student came together and created such an organization. As in any new endeavor it took constant coaching and cheering to get the students on board. For the first year and half we hovered between 5 and 25 students. To date, we have a quarter of the student population as active members. Students are implementing the skills they learn in the class to furthering the mission of the organization as well as building programs that are relevant to their needs. We have a small but active alumni group that pitches in whenever we have an event. Students have also moved from our associate degree program to our bachelor program. How do you build a community?