by rfoster | Sep 9, 2021 | Updates
The Austin Community College Board of Trustees named Bill Segura the College’s sixth president, succeeding interim president Roland Smith who had filled in after Dan Angel departed to take the presidency of Stephen F. Austin State University. Segura, a...
by William Montgomery | Aug 5, 2021 | Updates
The College took steps to lessen criticism in SACS’ accreditation report that ACC relied too heavily on inadequately supervised adjunct faculty, an allegation made often by the Part-Time Faculty Association, who argued that adjunct faculty taught the same...
by William Montgomery | Jul 15, 2021 | Updates
ACC found itself pinched between rising expectations and the realities of what each school could afford. Like all of Texas’ public community colleges, ACC’s funding came from three sources: (1) local tax revenue, (2) student tuition and fees, and (3) state...
by rfoster | Apr 15, 2021 | Updates
Using video as an instructional tool at ACC began almost from the time that the College opened its doors over five years previously. Chemistry instructor James Archer and Physics instructor John Cise used video tapes to illustrate key principles in their respective...
by William Montgomery | Sep 13, 2018 | Updates
In 1985, a Williamson County citizens steering committee led by Barbara Roy, a round Rock resident, obtained over 5,000 signatures, more than minimally required, on a petition asking the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to authorize a local election to create...
by William Montgomery | Jul 18, 2018 | Updates
The forty-five-year-old Segura, an El Paso native, was ACC’s first Mexican-American chief executive officer, and one of the first at a college not situated along the United States/Mexico border. Segura graduated from Linfield College in Oregon, and held of a...
