Welcome!

We are delighted you are here and engaging with the Northeast Consortium Bridging Access to College (NECBAC). For nearly five decades, NECBAC has been dedicated to supporting admission counselors and students who are people of color, first-generation to college, from low-income backgrounds, or from other historically marginalized identities in higher education. Through its evolution, our work has remained focused on two pillars: professional development for our members and collaboration with counselors and community leaders to support students on their paths to higher education.

This work is grounded in those core pillars and driven by essential questions we explore together: How do we effectively advocate for students? How do we navigate our institutions and our roles as admission professionals with authenticity and integrity? How do we sustain our commitment to access over the course of our careers? These questions connect us across generations of professionals.

This is the nature of our work: to ask questions, to learn from history and the collective wisdom of colleagues past and present, and to bring forth lessons and practices to serve the next generation. We provide a professional community space for learning, exchange, and support in service of both counselors and students. This is what NECBAC has offered for nearly five decades.

I invite you to join us, to draw upon this community as a resource, and to contribute your own perspective to the work we share.

Christopher Muñoz-Calene NECBAC President 2025-2027 Amherst College