The Austin Community College Board of Trustees, ACC President Dan Angel, and faculty and staff launched a project to build the new, state-of-the-art campus. It was named Northridge. Substantial growth in student enrollment had pushed the College’s facilities to capacity, creating the need for more campuses, and winning tax support from the district’s property owners made campus expansion possible. College president Dan Angel declared that the new campus would “provide much better access to students in the north, northwest and northeast” sectors of Austin.
Dedication of New Northridge Campus Site 2
ACC Board chair Jan Albers set a high standard for the new campus. “It is not only important that we build a campus but that we also work to provide the best possible education on this campus.” She added that “[t]oda
y institutions of higher education are being scrutinized and criticized. People are asking if we in education are doing all we can to foster creative thinking, to instill values and ethics, and to help our students understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom.”
Source of text: Austin American-Statesman, November 11, 1987.