"Reclaiming the American Dream" is the cornerstone of American Association of Community Colleges's (AACC) 21st-Century Initiative, launched in 2011 with the goal of outfitting an additional 5 million students with degrees, certificates, or other credentials by 2020. In Phase 1 of the initiative, featured was a nationwide "listening tour" by AACC staff, who gathered input from more than 1,300 students, college faculty and staff, administrators, trustees, state policymakers, and college presidents and chancellors. Phase 2 established the "21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges," a group of community college leaders charged with safeguarding the fundamental mission of community colleges and imagining a new path forward for their institutions, their students, and, ultimately, the nation. In this article, Bob Woods describes how community colleges around the country are responding to the AACC initiative.