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ACC Closes Ridgeview Campus

Angry voices from the East Austin community rose in a chorus of condemnation of Ridgeview’s closing, and ACC officials’ rationale for the move only elevated oponents’ temperature. What precipitated the move, ACC President Dan Angel explained, was...

Riverside: ACC’s Third Campus

The 193-acre tract on east Riverside Drive was far more than the College needed, or could afford to develop. However, this real estate deal opened some very intriguing possibilities, not because ACC needed a golf course or envisioned an intercollegiate golf program,...

Dedication of Northridge Campus Site

  Our Memories College president Dan Angel said that sustained growth in ACC’s enrollment created the need for a new campus.  Enrollment had reached 20,000 students in credit courses and another 8,000 to 9,000 in various non-credit and continuing education...

New Northwest Campus

As the greater Austin metro area expanded, and as the number of students attending classes at Austin Community grew apace, building new ACC facilities gathered momentum. College expansion was easily justified; however, locating new campuses carried financial as well...

Taxing Authority Approved

This was a well-conceived and effectively organized campaign, and ACC’s President Dan Angel deserved much of the credit. After all, he had been a Michigan state legislator earlier in his career and understood how to run a political campaign. But many others...