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As we approach the end of the year, many people reflect on things that they’ve accomplished over the past twelve months and things they wished they’d achieved. Since it’s National Career Development Month, we wanted to provide a guide to help you think about what you want to achieve this next year and how to create a plan to get there. Whatever you want to do, you can use the acronym ASSET to help you get started.

We've brought back the Food Holiday Calendar for the month of November. This year's calendar includes a special recipe my family makes every year to celebrate our Native American heritage. You'll find the Google Doc linked to the PDF on Native American Heritage day. I hope this recipe (and all the other recipes and information on this calendar) bring happiness and maybe something new to your table this month.

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Blog written by Scott Acker, Chief of Police

As the holidays are approaching, there can be several areas of stress, anxiety, and grief that make this meaningful time of year also feel complicated. Watch this video as Will Ratliff and Adam Gray share some things to keep in mind as well as some practical ideas on how to navigate the holidays in healthy ways.

Use a credit card or debit card that includes excellent protection against false charges to your account. Try to use payment systems that have good built-in protection, like Paypal, Shop Pay, Google Pay, or Amazon Checkout. It is much more difficult for a criminal to steal your card info if you use these types of payments during checkout. If you are shopping on an unfamiliar site and the checkout has a plain old form to fill out your credit card info (if it also does not provide alternative ways to pay like PayPal, Google Pay, etc.), be wary.

Serving Our AC Family

The original purpose of the AC Foundation was to obtain gifts and grants to further the development of Amarillo College through loans for students, enrichment of the educational program, and necessary expansion of the campus. The Scott Lumber Company Fund was the first loan fund set up at the Foundation and although we no longer give loans to students, we now use the Scott Lumber Fund to give emergency loans to employees. The AC Foundation now raises funds for scholarships for our students and support funds for programs at AC along with funding to support the No Excuses program. We also solicit funding through grants for institutional programs at AC. We currently have a $63 million-dollar endowment which is one of the largest endowments in the state of Texas for a community college.