Trio to represent College at annual South by Southwest Music Festival
Published February 28, 2020 By Joe WyattSpring Break is just around the corner, and many are making plans to visit warmer climes – possibly to the south or southwest.
Amarillo College News
AC Mass Media captures Gold at the 2020 American Advertising banquet
Published February 24, 2020 By Joe WyattAmarillo College mass media students laid claim to a prestigious gold award in the only category they entered at the Amarillo chapter of the American Advertising Federation’s 2020 Advertising Awards banquet on Feb. 20.
National Career and Technical Education Month boosts awareness
Published February 21, 2020 By Joe WyattEach year, the Association for Career & Technical Education (CTE) designates February as National CTE Month to boost awareness about educational pathways leading to high-wage, high-demand careers in a number of fields.
Film and panel discussion to focus on race relations since Civil Rights era
Published February 18, 2020 By Joe WyattA film and a panel discussion concerning race relations in America are on tap as Amarillo College observes Black History Month, while continuing this year’s Creative Mind Lecture Series: Reverberations of Conflict: The Legacy of the Civil War.
Photographs by Adriane Little to go on display Feb. 24 at Amarillo College
Published February 13, 2020 By Joe WyattA photographic retracing of the fictional steps taken through London by one of novelist Virginia Woolf’s best-known characters, Clarissa Dalloway, is the basis for an upcoming exhibit at Amarillo College’s Southern Light Gallery.
College to receive $100,000 safety grant from Texas Mutual Insurance
Published February 5, 2020 By Joe WyattAmarillo College is poised to continue providing free safety-training courses for area businesses thanks to another generous grant courtesy of the Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
Music Department to present Faculty Recital Feb. 9 at Concert Hall Theater
Published January 31, 2020 By Joe WyattThe supremely accomplished music faculty at Amarillo College will be pulling out all the stops in February when they take the stage to present the eagerly anticipated Faculty Recital.
AC Testing Center earns national recognition for exemplary practices
Published January 30, 2020 By Joe WyattAmarillo College is pleased to announce that its Testing Center has been awarded prestigious Test Center Certification by the National College Testing Association (NCTA).
Images by René West, curator of Southern Light Gallery, on display
Published January 29, 2020 By Joe WyattFusing the disparate photographic techniques inherent in handmade pinhole cameras, digital technology and Van Dyke printing, René West emerged from a Nevada desert with an array of compelling landscapes and self-styled mandalas.
AC and Panhandle PBS invested in May performance of Missa Solemnis
Published January 23, 2020 By Joe Wyatt‘Missa Solemnis’, arguably Ludwig Van Beethoven’s greatest composition, is rarely performed due to its notoriously high degree of difficulty.
Record number of students are named to AC's Fall Dean’s List
Published January 12, 2020 By Joe WyattThe number of students achieving academic excellence at Amarillo College continues to surge as 783 full-time students – AC’s highest tally ever – have been named to the Fall 2019 Dean’s List.
Communications & Marketing wins 5 Gold Awards for AC digital campaigns
Published December 20, 2019 By Joe WyattThe Communications and Marketing Department at Amarillo College captured five Gold-level national marketing accolades in the Education Digital Marketing Awards, sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report.
Career Ready You puts HSE and ESL students on fast track to success
Published December 20, 2019 By Joe WyattWhen Kaylee Brogden enrolled in the High School Equivalency (HSE) program at Amarillo College, she was not at all concerned with college-credit courses or career trajectories. She simply wanted to obtain the HSE credential.
AC students land summer internships with Sandia National Laboratories
Published December 18, 2019 By Joe WyattTwo Amarillo College engineering students already are gearing up for an especially busy and enlightening summer, one that will entail laboratory testing of non-nuclear components within the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
VFW Post 1475 brightens Christmas for 4 student veterans and families
Published December 16, 2019 By Joe WyattChristmas arrived early for a quartet of Amarillo College student veterans and their families thanks to the unanticipated generosity of Unit 6 of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1475.
Students in engineering, machining collaborate to create ARC drop box
Published December 13, 2019 By Joe WyattAmarillo College students in the engineering and machining programs momentarily dropped everything this semester to collaborate on the design and creation of a drop box for AC’s Advocacy and Resource Center (ARC).
Becky Easton installs Storybridge drop-off spot at AC for kids’ books
Published December 12, 2019 By Joe WyattAs dean of liberal arts at Amarillo College, Becky Easton has both a deep-seated passion and a vested interest in the spread of literacy, so when an opportunity arose to help put books into the hands of the youngest readers of all, she took it.
Amarillo College names Chris Sharp vice president of business affairs
Published December 10, 2019 By Joe WyattChris Sharp, who for the past 11 years has served as assistant city manager and finance director for the city of Canyon, has been named vice president of business affairs at Amarillo College.
College names Joe Bill Sherrod VP for institutional advancement
Published December 5, 2019 By Joe WyattJoe Bill Sherrod, a consummate fundraising professional and ardent civic leader, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Amarillo College.
Phi Theta Kappa mounts hygiene drive to benefit Hope Welcome Center
Published November 26, 2019 By Joe WyattThe Amarillo College chapter of Phi Theta Kappa will lead a food and hygiene drive from Dec. 2-13 to benefit a mission for friends and families of inmates housed in Amarillo’s Clements and Neal units – the Hope Welcome Center.