Slots are still available for teams or individuals to register and participate in the Amarillo College Scholarship Scramble golf tournament on Friday, July 22 at Comanche Trail Golf Course.

The cost is $90 per person and $360 per team and includes lunch. Register here.

Lunch will be served at 11 a.m., and golfers hit the links at 12:30 p.m.

In addition to receiving an affordable, quality education at one of the nation’s Top Five community colleges, students at Amarillo College also benefit from a wealth of impactful resources to help remove barriers to their success – food pantries, free legal aid, mental health counseling, etc.

However, the newest such resource may have the greatest impact of all.

Amarillo College and Martha’s Home, a shelter for homeless single women and mothers with children, are joining forces to empower the Home’s adult residents as they strive to escape poverty by pursing certificates and degrees through AC’s Adult Education and Literacy (AEL) program.

Leaders of AC and Martha’s Home will gather at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 27th to cement the partnership and unveil the Home’s new “Present Needs—Future Success” campaign, which is already garnering meaningful local support.

Registration is now open for one of Amarillo College’s most highly anticipated summer activities, Chalk It Up, the sidewalk art contest that consistently spawns dazzling colorful creations and always awards cash prizes to the winners.

The event is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 30. It is free to enter, and the first 40 entries will be accepted.

Amarillo College, which in 2021 was named one of the nation’s Top 5 community colleges and was dubbed a “Rising Star” by the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, is once again an Aspen Prize Finalist.

The Aspen Institute today announced that AC is one of the 10 Finalists for the 2023 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Started in 2010 and awarded every two years, the $1 million Aspen Prize is the nation’s signature recognition of community colleges that are achieving high, improving, and equitable outcomes for students.

There is no doubt that students who begin their exploration of academia at a community college can and do matriculate to universities of great distinction.

A sterling example of that is former Amarillo College student Roman Leal, who in May received his juris doctorate from Yale Law School. The accomplishment was achieved just three short years after he scored in the top three percent on the law school admissions test – the LSAT.

Amarillo College is pleased to announce that a total of 633 full-time students attained academic excellence worthy of placing their names on the Spring 2022 Dean’s List.

To attain inclusion on the prestigious list, students must attend AC full time and earn a grade point average of 3.6 or higher.

Students who achieved Dean’s-List status for their academic excellence in the Spring of 2022 are listed alphabetically.

Amarillo College’s Washington Street Campus bustles big time on Tuesday nights in June, when the Jim Laughlin AC June Jazz Series is in full swing.

This will be the 27th year for June Jazz, the popular outdoor concert series that commonly draws an audience of hundreds to the College and is named in honor of its founder and continuous organizer, Dr. Jim Laughlin, professor of music.

A pair of Amarillo College professors whose dedication to student success is widely acknowledged by students and faculty alike have been named recipients of the prestigious 2021-2022 John F. Mead Faculty Excellence Award.

Dr. Bruce Lin, assistant professor of music, and Dr. Asanga Ranasinghe, assistant professor of chemistry, received AC’s foremost faculty accolade during commencement exercises on May 13 at Hodgetown Stadium.

Amarillo College will celebrate the laudable achievements of nearly 1,200 dedicated scholars at back-to-back commencement ceremonies Friday, May 13 at Hodgetown Stadium in Downtown Amarillo.

Eligible to participate in AC’s Spring Commencement are 912 spring graduates and 282 students who anticipate completing their academic requirements this summer.

Amarillo College is pleased to announce that its Communications and Marketing Department has captured 18 prestigious awards from a pair of elite national organizations known for recognizing excellence in higher education advertising.

The 37th Annual Educational Advertising Awards recognized AC with a dozen awards, and the 2121 Collegiate Advertising Awards came in with six more.

Amarillo College is once again in the running for the nation’s biennial signature recognition of community college excellence – the $1 million Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

The Aspen Institute on April 27 announced 25 semifinalists for the 2023 Aspen Prize, and Amarillo College, which in 2021 attained Top 5 recognition and was named an Aspen Rising Star, is in the running once more.

Amarillo College, with enthusiastic support from industry stakeholders, is now better positioned than ever to propel students to a wide variety of careers in the burgeoning banking and finance industry.

On April 26, the AC Board of Regents approved a new Banking and Finance Certificate and, pending approval of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the academic certificate will be offered at AC beginning next fall.

The leaders of Amarillo College and Lubbock Christian University signed an articulation agreement on Monday, April 25 that ensures seamless transfer of credit hours between the two schools.

The signing ceremony took place on the second floor of the College Union Building on AC’s Washington Street Campus.

Students at Amarillo College can learn about veterinary medicine and how to embark on a pathway to careers in the field during a panel discussion from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 on the Washington Street Campus.

The event will be at The Underground - the basement in the Ware Student Commons - and panelists will include faculty and administrators from the Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, and other experts in the field.

A series of ritualistic slayings ignited a firestorm of panic that engulfed Austin, Texas in 1885, yet this lurid chapter in the city's history was largely forgotten until a historic thriller titled The Midnight Assassin hit bookstores in 2016.

Amarillo College is pleased to announce that Skip Hollandsworth, whose long-researched tome about America's first known serial killer became a New York Times bestseller, will present the 2022 Creative Mind Lecture.

As many as 250 area high school students are expected to converge on Amarillo College's East Campus to showcase their work and compete for prizes over a two-day span at the Top of Texas Career & Technical Education Expo.

The event is Tuesday and Wednesday, April 26-27 and will be headquartered in the Public Service Building, although some contests will take place in the Transportation Center and the Manufacturing Education Center.

Gary McCoy says his photo exhibit, Urban Vacancies, "investigates the psychological reaction to constructed and transitional space crated through urban design, planning, development, and abandonment in Dallas."

Urban Vacancies is on display now through May 5 at Amarillo College's Southern Light Gallery. The venue is located on the first floor of the Ware Student Commons on the Washington Street Campus.

“This is where I turned my life around,” said Hammons, who is one of 1,130 summer and fall graduates eligible to participate in AC’s Fall Commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 17 at the Amarillo Civic Center. Masks, while not required, are recommended.

The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. in the Civic Center Coliseum and will be live-steamed and available for repeat viewings at https://livestream.com/panhandlepbs/acfa2021

“I find mathematics to be very therapeutic,” said the assistant professor of mathematics at Amarillo College. “It’s the framework for all of the sciences and for the beauty in art and in music. It’s the foundation for architecture. It’s a universal language that teaches us logic. “I love mathematics because it is reliable and logical and very beautiful,” she said. “I love sharing that with other people, communicating those concepts to all kinds of students.”