“While I was stopped, I ran into a friend who told me about a job just a couple of blocks away, so I went on over and applied,” Laughlin said. “I will celebrate 30 years at Amarillo College in August.

“I thought I’d spend maybe two years here,” the accomplished professor of music said. “But somewhere along the way the people of the College and the entire Amarillo community became more than my friends; they became my family.”

In commending the efforts of its member station in Amarillo, Texas, PBS helped put to rest perceptions that major metropolitan areas hold a monopoly on large-scale, top-drawer epicurean events.

BestColleges has installed Amarillo College in the Top 10 on its list of Best Online Associate Degree Programs in Criminal Justice for 2019.

BestColleges has installed Amarillo College in the Top 10 on its list of Best Online Associate Degree Programs in Criminal Justice for 2019.

Robin Malone, who began teaching Sunday school even before graduating from high school, might have pursued a career in education sooner had she not already aspired to an altogether different profession.

Amarillo College STEM majors and high school juniors and seniors planning to major in STEM fields are invited to apply for a select, weeklong research internship July 29-Aug. 2 featuring a hands-on bioremediation project.

The battle lines are currently being drawn for the third annual Chalk It Up , Amarillo College’s award-winning sidewalk art contest.

The academic excellence of 553 students during the spring 2019 semester has landed them on the Amarillo College Dean’s List.

Local jazz musicians are tuning up for yet another rhythmical rendition of June Jazz at Amarillo College, where free Tuesday evening concerts on the Washington Street Campus reign supreme – and not just in June anymore.

Amarillo College and online, non-profit university WGU Texas are poised to sign an agreement aimed at streamlining the process by which AC graduates can pursue bachelor’s and master’s degrees at WGU Texas.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.