The Headliners Foundation of Texas has announced winners of more than $70,000 in scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year, and only one of the recipients attended a community college this year – Meghan Holland of Amarillo College.
“Communication is power,” says Margie Netherton, a professor of English at Amarillo College who, no matter the topic at hand, emboldens her students to examine how it relates to them personally.
Amarillo College, a recognized leader in removing barriers of poverty that impede student success, once again will share its strategies with a national gathering, but this year a single summit on the Washington Street Campus will not suffice.
Washington, DC—The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) announced today the 20 institutions – including Amarillo College – selected to participate in a new two-year project, Strengthening Guided Pathways and Career Success by Ensuring Students Are Learning.
Khanhthong Sidara was only hoping to improve her language skills a bit by enrolling in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes at Amarillo College, but she quickly became engrossed in the process and set her sights higher.
Amarillo voters gave their go-ahead to a variety of projects and initiatives that will enhance the Amarillo College landscape with passage of an $89.206 million bond referendum in the May 4 election.
A steady upsurge in the number of graduates has led Amarillo College, for the first time in its 90-year history, to stage two commencement ceremonies this spring rather than one.
The Amarillo College Board of Regents has given its consent to establish a Coding Academy next spring featuring a full-stack development certificate for aspiring developers weighing careers in the ever-expanding high-tech industry.
The Chalk It Up sidewalk art contest, a summertime collaboration between Amarillo College and Panhandle PBS, has been singled out for a prestigious Golden Touch Award.
Outstanding student paintings and photographs produced in a pair of upper-level Creative Arts classes at Amarillo College – Photography Portfolio and Art Painting I – will be on display May 1-9 at the Common Lobby Gallery.
Women who want to learn about technical-career opportunities long associated with the male gender will get that chance on Friday, May 3 when Amarillo College hosts “Women in Industry” on the East Campus.
The Amarillo College Board of Regents voted in May of 2018 to pursue a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce that would provide some funding for the creation of an Innovation Hub at the Downtown Campus.
After dismissing a class at Amarillo College – in welding, metallurgy, HVAC or electromechanical systems – Kim Hays might relax with a good book, possibly a tome about organic chemistry or the science of genetics.
Each year, Disability Services at Amarillo College spearheads a community-wide luncheon to raise both awareness of and funding for students with disabilities who are committed to Living Independently Through Education (LITE).
The Amarillo College Creative Arts Community is pleased to announce plans to enhance its traditional observance of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day with an exhibition of pinhole photographs created with a unique cast-iron camera.
A biomedical research scientist at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Pharmacy will talk about methodology used to investigate environmental pollutants during an upcoming guest lecture at Amarillo College.
Amarillo College students emerged with several honors from a national information technology competition featuring about 250 participants from 38 colleges and universities – from Ball State to University of South Carolina.
Amarillo College and the Texas Panhandle Art Education Association proudly present IGNITE: High School Creative Arts Conference, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 12 on the AC’s Washington Street Campus.
What Sharon Oeschger likes most about the thank-you notes she gets from students on the receiving end of scholarships she supports at Amarillo College are the heartfelt assertions they contain about one day emulating her kindness.
Michael Mattesi, veteran animator, Disney and Pixar collaborator and creator of the FORCE drawing theory, returns in April to lead another detailed workshop for Amarillo College students interested in drawing and animation.