Author: Matthew

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A new opportunity for honors students!

Become an Honors Ambassador

(And get paid.)

We’re announcing an exciting new job opportunity with the ACC Honors Program. For the 2018-2019 school year, we will be debuting a team of Honors Ambassadors, leaders drawn from the ranks of our own Honors student population. Ambassadors will engage in recruitment and outreach activities at ACC campuses and area high schools. They will also develop liaisons with Student Services, maintain an active social media presence, conduct classroom presentations, and host Honors events.

Are you an ACC honors student? Help us build our honors community! You’re in the best position to speak about the transformative experiences of Honors. Hone your leadership and presentation skills, contribute to the community, and give something back to ACC for its investment in honors students and professors.

We’re hiring 8-10 ambassadors to work about 30 hours per long semester. Initial interviews will be held in late April; candidates should be available in early summer (May-June) and late August (prior to the start of classes) for two training sessions. If you would like to be considered, but are uncertain of your availability in the summer, let us know in the application, which you can find here: https://goo.gl/forms/xIXTQ50N9Y0buifF3

Honors students have always been the program’s most valuable asset. Your passion and dedication are the reason we teach these classes. We encourage you to be our advocates at ACC and beyond, and we look forward to working closely with you as the Honors Program enters a new phase.

 

Creating a culture of peace

News from ACC’s Peace and Conflict Studies program

Peace and Conflict Studies is hosting its Spring Symposium this Friday. The Spring Symposium, now in its seventh year, was originally developed and conceived by students within the Peace and Conflict Studies program as a way to engage the wider community on the issues of peace and conflict transformation that are central to the discipline. Over the years, the Spring Symposium as has explored themes related to peace, conflict, and social justice and has featured numerous communities, groups, and disciplines both at ACC and in the surrounding community.

This year’s symposium is being held in conjunction with Continue reading “Creating a culture of peace”

Let’s Lead the Way

Thanks to Frank Cronin for a return appearance as guest blogger. Today, Frank’s topic is the Leg’s mandate concerning DevEd and paired sections, along with an LAHC initiative to improve the paired sections infrastructure.

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Let’s Lead the Way

The Texas Legislature in the 2017 session passed a bill requiring 75% of DEVED courses  in higher education to be paired with college level courses by 2020.  The INRW department in its current and earlier forms, DEVR and DEVW, has done these kinds of pairing since the early 2000s: Continue reading “Let’s Lead the Way”

Are You Ever Too Old for a Field Trip?

My guest blogger today is Travis Mann, from the department of Business, Government, and Technical Communications. I met Travis in the smoke from wieners cooking on a little grill during a River Bat Bash at Cypress. By the time we finished our conversation, they’d run out of hot dogs. Next best thing: a trip to the learning lab. Continue reading “Are You Ever Too Old for a Field Trip?”

ACC Sends Another Student to Russia

Most students never consider the many doors that schools like Austin Community College can open for them. Unfortunately, there is a misconception when it comes to community colleges and many  liken them to technical colleges or perhaps a place for older adults wanting extra certifications within a field they’re already in. In reality, Austin Community College is a gateway to the wealth of potential that walks through its doors year round. Continue reading “ACC Sends Another Student to Russia”

International Festival!

Join ACC students, faculty, and staff on Friday, April 6, for International Festival, a celebration of all things international! Refreshments, performances from a Japanese fashion show to a Ballet Folklórico, demonstrations by Capoeiristas and Balalaika players, networking with community and business leaders — everything international in our community!

International Festival includes ACC departments with a global reach, including Foreign Languages, International Studies, our Study Abroad programs, and others, plus our neighbors and community leaders in international relations, international business, and globalization.

International Festival will be held at Highland Learning Center, Building 4000, Lower Level, Friday, April 6, 6:00 to 8:30 PM.

Yes, I did certify my attendance!

By now, we all know that we have to certify attendance for our classes at the beginning of each semester. And by now, many of us have gotten those irritating nag-emails about following through — even though we just got a confirmation email saying we certified! A pretty significant subset of those who have received one of those nags has insisted — rightly — that the attendance certification was done on time and blamed getting tagged with the “you didn’t follow through” message on technology — wrongly, it turns out. Continue reading “Yes, I did certify my attendance!”