Grant Development & Compliance
The mission of the Grants Development & Compliance Office is to help faculty, staff, and administration secure external funds for programs that align with AC's Strategic Plan. The No Excuses 2025 Strategic Plan Goals are:
- Completion: Completion by improving persistence, decreasing time-to-completion, and creating a comprehensive transfer/completion pathway.
- Align Degrees and Certificates with Labor Market Demand: Align degrees and certificates with current and new labor market demand by creating structured Amarillo College career pathways.
- Learning: Increase student learning by infusing and scaling high impact teaching practices designed to align programs and courses based on competencies; improve student engagement, and strengthen performance of student learning outcomes.
- Equity: Equitable degree and certificate attainment by building inclusive systems to increase minority hiring, enrollment and completion.
- Financial Effectiveness: Build systems for financial effectiveness to creating innovative procedures supporting financial responsibility and fund-raising approaches.
THE MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT IS TO
- Assist faculty, staff, and administration by identifying appropriate funding opportunities.
- Facilitate an understanding of the grant application process.
- Increase grant funding that supports the college's mission.
- Provide stewardship by ensuring grant expenditures are in compliance with terms and conditions of award.
- Ensure adherence to all college related polices and procedures.
- Work collaboratively with other college departments.
- Provide training on grant administration for newly hired administrative personnel or faculty awarded a first grant.
- Participate in the College's annual Single Audit on federal and state program activities.
- Enhance compliance and accountability through training on government, state, and private grants and contracts.
OUR STAFF
Jennifer Ashcraft
Grant Administration Coordinator
Phone Number: (806) 345-5508
Email:jlashcraft@actx.edu
Jacqui Jones
Grant Administration Coordinator
Phone Number: (806) 371-5203
Email Address:jjones@actx.edu