Community colleges, like other institutions of higher education, are faced with many challenges. Part of their challenge is to create vital institutions. The quality of the institution, for the most part, resonates with faculty. As such, community college leaders must support and maintain a vital faculty. There is a need in higher education to develop, create, maintain and reenergize faculty vitality. This paper evaluated related literature in support of faculty vitality. A study was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine faculty vitality at 30 community colleges within New York State from the perspective of the chief academic officers at those sites. The chief academic officers were first surveyed to determine their perspective on faculty, followed by one-on-one interviews with 12 of these chief academic officers. The results indicated that the chief academic officers were supportive of faculty and were strong advocates for vitality. The findings from this study further support previous findings that there are certain characteristics of vitality. From the recommendations included herein similar studies can be conducted to further explore vitality from the perspective of faculty, chief academic officers or other higher education leaders.