Additional 2010-2011 Events

A Conversation with Evan Smith
Tuesday, October 1, 2010
Rio Grande Campus Theater, Room 201
1:00-2:30 p.m.

An invitation to learn how to “cut through the clutter” to get the information you need about policy/politics.

Evan Smith is the CEO and Editor in Chief of The Texas Tribune. He spent nearly 18 years at TEXAS MONTHLY, stepping down in August 2009 as the magazine's president and editor in chief. Previously he served as editor for more than eight years—only the third person to hold that title. On his watch, TEXAS MONTHLY was nominated for sixteen National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and twice was awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Learn more...

Constitution Debate Day Celebration
When: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Where: Palmer Events Center (map)
Time: 5:30-8:30 p. m. Refreshments will be served.

ACC’s Center for Public Policy and Political Studies (CPPPS), its Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and their CSPS (Center for Student Political Studies) invite ACC students to examine their knowledge and beliefs about the U.S. Constitution, and to reflect on the state of their rights in today’s politically-charged climate. To see the issues that were debated at the program, please click HERE. To learn more about the event, view the original ACC calendar listing.

3rd Annual Constitution Day Art Contest and Reception

The ACC Center for Public Policy and Political Studies has teamed up with the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division and the Arts and Humanities Division to sponsor ACC’s 3rd Annual Constitution Day on September 17, 2010. Learn more...

Diez y Seis de Septiembre
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Noon – 1:00 p.m., Free and open to the public
ACC Riverside Campus (near the bookstore and bus turn around area)

Come and learn the meaning of el Diez y Seis from Historians. Enjoy Hispanic dishes and music and dance by Roy Lozano’s Ballet Folklórico, Johnny Degollado y su Conjunto Band, ACC’s own Boca Abajo, and more.

2009-2010 Events

• Join CPPPS on May 7, 2010 at its annual spring fundraiser: Building Tomorrow’s Leaders, featuring special guest, current MSNBC commentator and former Senior White House correspondent for Newsweek, Richard Wolffe.mmigration, Education, And Our Future - Conference III: A Dream on Hold, April 30th. Learn more...
• Thanks goes out to our vendors, speakers, entertainers, donors, supporters, and the ACC "Earth Day" team! We had a great Earth Day Fair on 4/22. Check out the photos on our Picasa page.
• ACC Students to Participate in Clinton Global Initiative University
• Census 2010
• ACC’s Jobs Creation Forum: What would you do to create jobs? Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 6-8:30 pm; Photo album
• Mock Congressional Hearing on Health Reform, ock Congressional Hearing on Health Reform, Saturday, February 13; Photo album
  
• Interested in Politics? Attend Special Student Event on Wednesday, Feb. 3
• Wednesday, Nov. 11, press conference introducing the new Austin Conservation Corps. Photo album
• Oct 10th, Reading the Future: Preparing Texas Educator’s Today for the Students of Tomorrow. Learn more about this event...
• CPPPS Fall Fundraiser, October 9, 2009,with keynote speaker Representative Jim Pitts, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
• The September 23, ACC District-wide Constitution Debate Day was a huge success! Thanks to the almost 600 students who attended. Photo album
• ACC Receives Diversity Award!
• Read about CPPPS’ most recent publication conducted by ACC Government Professor Stefan D. Haag on Voter Turnout in Austin City Council Elections.
• Check out the winners of the 2nd annual student Art Contestthat celebrates the Constitution.
• Celebrate ACC’s third annual Diez y Seis de Septiembre Festival . This free hour-long program at ACC’s Riverside campus will host guest speakers and local entertainment including Mariachi and Cojunto bands and Ballet Folklorico Dancers.  ACC faculty, staff, students, and Austin community are happily invited to attend. Photo album

2008-2009 Events

• Mayoral Debate at Austin’s City Hall on Friday, May 1, 2009, 6-8 pm
• Texas State University of San Marcos' Meet & Greet and LBJ Distinguished Lecture, RSVP deadline is April 9, 2009
• Diez y Seis Festival
• View a short video of our award-winning 2008 Constitution Debate Day Celebration
• Cooperative Programming at ACC wins CASE IV District Award for 2008 popular Student Constitution Debate Event (PDF)
• Constitution Debate Event flyer (PDF)
• An Artistic Competition to the celebration has been added this year with the cooperation of the Arts & Humanities Division.  CPPPS will offer cash prizes to student work in the following categories:
• Two-Dimensional Art - i.e., paintings, drawings
• Three-Dimensional Art - i.e., sculpture, ceramics, metal work
• Creative Writing - i.e., poetry and fiction
• Essay - i.e., personal or academic essay or opinion piece, referring to the Federalist #10
• Performance - i.e., theater, spoken word, dance, video (up to five minutes in length)
• Contest ends on 7/7/2008.  Press conference announcing the winners of the contest will occur on 9/17/2008 at the ACC Highland Business Center.  
• Former Austin Mayor Announces Tutoring Incentive Plan for Eastside Memorial High School at the Johnston Campus   Press Release (PDF format)  
• Press Conference: ACC students encourage voting (RGC), April 25, 2008: Read about Center's new study on Austin's Stagnant Voter Turnout rates:
  • Press release (PDF)
  • Report (PDF)

2007-2008 Events  

• Constitution Debate Celebration (9/24/2007)
• Diez y Seis Festival at Riverside Campus, at ACC (9/16/2007)
• May 2007 – Analysis of ‘Straight Ticket’ Voting 1998-2006: This statistical political study (PDF) is an analysis of straight ticket voting in the Texas elections of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. Were the election results last year an aberration or the beginning of a new trend in the landscape of Texas politics?