The BSSC at PCC exists in order to:  

Support our Black student community in successfully navigating higher education via  supplemental academic support, social opportunities, and professional development.

Challenge the predominant Eurocentric orientation which dominates academia by applying intellectual insight in the service of Black communities, creating and supporting scholarship that drives their liberation. 

Our work centers students, and we are also a resource to PCC faculty, staff, and administrators.

On an organizational scale, our work is anchored in the intellectual and cultural foundations of Black/African thought. 

Black Student Success Center Values

Our organization is anchored by a core set of values that roots us proudly in our Blackness. We call these the Nguzo Saba (The Seven  Principles):  

We see these as values central to our self-understanding and self-assertion in the world as people of African heritage. The values articulate ways of righteously and rightfully grounding and orienting ourselves in the lives we live, the work we do in the center, the classroom, and the world.