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Course Waitlists Now Available to all Departments

ACC is extending a course waitlist option to all departments beginning with fall 2012 registration. While many courses already have or are adding waitlists, the option will remain at the discretion of the individual departments. Faculty can check with their department’s administrative assistant to find out...

ACC Departments Join Forces to Manage Student Immunization Requirement

ACC Departments Join Forces to Manage Student Immunization Requirement
ACC departments collegewide have been working continuously since last summer to help students comply with the new state law requiring that they be immunized for bacterial meningitis or provide an exemption request declining the vaccine. Beginning January 2012, all new students under age 30 entering a Texas...

Congratulations, ACC Graduates!

Congratulations, ACC Graduates!
Photos from ACC’s commencement ceremony are available on Flickr and in a slideshow below. The videos shown at graduation also are posted below. Gregory Lawson has been a paratrooper for the Army, an operations specialist for the Navy, and a firearms training instructor for the Air Force. But...

ACC Announces Hays Campus Groundbreaking Celebration

ACC Announces Hays Campus Groundbreaking Celebration
Wednesday, June 27 | 10 a.m. | Hays CISD Performing Arts Center The community is invited to a groundbreaking celebration for Austin Community College’s new Hays Campus at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 27. The event – featuring live music, a college fair, and refreshments – will be at the Hays CISD Performing...

Building Bridges for Latino Students

Building Bridges for Latino Students
During the past 30 years, the number of Latinos earning college degrees has failed to keep pace with the increase in the Latino population or the number of college graduates from other racial/ethnic groups, a leading researcher on educational equity told ACC faculty and staff at a daylong symposium examining...