Four members of ACC’s Board of Trustees traveled to San Francisco in October to attend the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) 40th Annual College Leadership Congress. ACC Board Chairperson Nan McRaven, Vice Chair Allen Kaplan, and Trustees Tim Mahoney and John-Michael Cortez were among more than 1,500 community college leaders who gathered for the conference. Read more here.
Employment
We are delighted to welcome these New ACC Employees
that started October 5th!
Name Position Campus
Anthony Garza Testing Assistant EVC
Benefits
Diabetes Support Group for ACC Staff and Faculty
Diabetes: Take Action!
This is a group for anyone who has diabetes or is interested in learning more about diabetes. Group Leader is Sandra Gaskin (Sandy) RN, MSN. Sandy has spent most of her nursing career teaching about diabetes and helping others manage their diabetes.
The group will meet the 4th Friday of the month except for November and December, when we will meet the third Friday. Sessions will include “What is Diabetes”, “What is all the fuss about food and diabetes”, “I have to get up and get moving?!” , “What does my medication really do?” First support group meeting will be held on October 30, 2009 at HBC from 12:30-1:30 pm, room TBD.
Sign up, come and have fun and learn a lot! To register, please email avaldez1@austincc.edu . For questions, call Alisol V. Martinez, HR Specialist II at 512.223.7800. Please register by October 16th.
Create a Personal Financial Plan
People who “have it all” didn’t get there by accident. Financial planning is a thought process based on your values, which incorporates spending, saving, using credit, and investing. Creating a financial plan can help you identify the end result you want, figure out how to get there, and stay on track to achieve it. Psychologically, it can help reduce stress. This seminar discusses goal setting and provides a framework for working through the 5-step financial planning process.
October 29, 2009 12pm – 1pm, HBC, Room 221
Presenter: Dawn M. Ambuehl-Sadek, M.Ed. Community Education Director, A+ Federal Credit Union.
To register for this, employees must register online.
Please join the Accounting Department in honoring Sheila Ammons as the American Accounting Association Two Year College Educator of the Year. A reception will be given in Sheila’s honor on Wednesday, August 19 at the Riverside Campus, Room 8133. Refreshments will be served between 2:00 and 4:00 pm.
Sheila was recently honored in New York City at the American Accounting Association annual meeting. The 8,000 member American Accounting Association promotes worldwide excellence in accounting education, research and practice.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Everyone at ACC is eager to see the new Round Rock Campus, which is currently under construction. It will be the largest and most sophisticated facility that ACC has built to date.
However, the site remains under the control and responsibility of SpawGlass, the Construction Manager until ACC takes Beneficial Occupancy next summer. Other than people with direct responsibility for the construction of the campus, no one from ACC may visit the site until that time. In general, certain individuals in Facilities & Construction, Buildings & Grounds, and Environmental Health, Safety, Insurance and Risk Management would be the only people with that responsibility.
Anyone wishing to visit the site must first obtain permission from ACC project managers Paul Mason (529.4067) or Susan Brock (529.4534). Visitors also will need to sign in at the SpawGlass jobsite office.
Approved visitors must wear appropriate personal protective equipment, such as hard hats (not bump caps), safety shoes with steel toes, and ANSI approved safety glasses. There is no smoking and no listening devices.
Anyone interested in watching our progress can visit the facilities project update page at http://www.austincc.edu/faoadmin/rrk_construction.php.
The Austin Community College District (ACC) is holding a luggage drive to benefit teenagers leaving the foster care system. In their transitions to new living situations, these teens often carry their belongings in plastic bags. ACC hopes to provide suitcases for 22 Austin-area teenagers exiting the foster care system this summer.
The ACC Foster Care Program is accepting donations of new luggage (preferably carry-on rolling duffels) or monetary contributions toward the purchase of new luggage. The drive runs through August 1. For more information, contact the Foster Care Program staff representative at your campus:
· Eastview: Loretta Edelen – 223-5106 or edelen@austincc.edu
or Marshall Levett – 223-5197 or mlevett@austincc.edu
· Cypress: Sylvia Galvan Gonzalez – 223-2106 or sgalvang@austincc.edu
· Northridge: Lee Reichardt – 223-4877 or mreichar@austincc.edu
· Pinnacle: Angela Cole – 223-8094 or acole@austincc.edu
· Rio Grande: Kathy James – 223-3141 or kjames@austincc.edu
· Riverside: Chris Owens – 223-6203 or owensc@austincc.edu
· South Austin: Ruth Reinhart – 223-9158 or rreinhar@austincc.edu
· Highland Business Center: Dahlia Anzaldua – 223-7595 or anzaldua@austincc.edu
· Service Center: Phyllis Kalz – 223-1098 or pkalz@austincc.edu
Felix Droemer is the newest recipient of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange. He will be studying at ACC and living in the Austin area for the 2009-2010 school year and needs a quality family to host him.
This will be the 12th year ACC has participated in this exchange and the impact it has made is amazing.
If you are interested in hosting Felix for the 2009-2010 school year, please email G. Taylor, coordinator of International Programs, or call 223-7689 for more information.
Workforce Solutions, in partnership with Austin Community College, received a grant from Travis County to support individuals in several training tracks. This support includes tuition, books, and related fees. Participant eligibility requirements apply, but the flier contains a good overview of the opportunity and provides contact information.
See the fliers below for information:
We would appreciate your help in pushing these fliers out to interested students. The opportunity is time limited.
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Update – 9:15 a.m. Friday, May 15 – Round Rock tickets that were offered earlier have all been claimed. Thank you for participating!
Nominations are now being sought for the “Profiles of Power: Women of Influence” awards program currently being organized by the Austin Business Journal.
They are seeking nominations of women with accomplishments in a variety of fields.
Nominations are due by June 12 and can be submitted at the following website: http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/nomination/1654
The Learning Labs cordially invite ACC faculty and staff to participate in their annual tutor training conference, “The Many Ways to Student Success,” 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 28, 2009, at the Eastview Campus.
Our objective is to identify best practices in tutoring in order to gain a deeper understanding of the many ways students learn and how we can assist them in maximizing their college experience.
The conference will offer various participatory activities, from content-related workshops to round-table discussions to multimedia presentations.
You are invited to share your expertise with the Learning Labs and our 150 staff and tutors. Proposals should be submitted by May 22.
The conference presentation proposal form along with the latest conference information and updates will be available here.