Faculty &amp; Staff

ina@austincc.edu

Learn more about Ina...

Ina Midkiff is the Department Chair of Marketing, Real Estate & Finance. She has taught at Austin Community College for over 20 years. She earned a BBA and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Tarleton State University. Over the years she has served as Division Chair of Business Studies Division, Department Chair of Management, Associate Dean at Cypress Creek Campus, Assistant Department Chair of Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, and Real Estate and served as an officer of Austin Community College's Faculty Association. She also has had several consulting jobs for small Internet companies. She teaches Advertising, Marketing, and Financial Management courses.

She received the ACC Teaching Excellence Award for the outstanding full-time faculty member (2004-2005) of the year in May 2005. She was the 2002 Piper Professor Nominee from Austin Community College. In 1991 she received the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award at ACC and has been nominated several times as the outstanding full-time instructor at ACC by the Phi Theta Kappa student association. Her professional affiliations include Texas Community College Teachers Association and the Southwestern Administrative Disciplines in Marketing.

Eileen Collazo

Administrative Assistant

Austin Community College
Cypress Creek Campus
1555 Cypress Creek Road
Cedar Park, Texas 78613
Phone: (512) 223.2199
Office: 2204.1
Directory Listing and Office Hours
eileen.collazo@austincc.edu

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Eileen has over ten years of experience in Retail Management with focus in Customer Relations and has earned her AAS in Visual Communications from Austin Community College. She has collaborated with ACC's Creative Design Technologies and ACC's Architectural and Engineering CAD Departments while serving as Graphic Designer and Graphic Design Tutor. Eileen has brought a valuable set of skills, experiences and diversity to our department and now serves as the Administrative Assistant to the Marketing, Fashion, Real Estate and Finance Departments.

Courtney Ahrenholtz

Professor of Marketing and Finance

Austin Community College

Cypress Creek Campus

1555 Cypress Creek Road

Cedar Park, Texas 78613

Phone: (512) 223.2069

Office: CYP 2204.10

courtney.ahrenholtz@austincc.edu

Learn more about Courtney...

Courtney Ahrenholtz has been teaching Marketing and Finance courses at Austin Community College since 2019. She holds a Master of Science in Business Management with an emphasis on Digital Marketing from Texas A&M University-Commerce and earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a Minor in French from the University of Northern Colorado.

Courtney is certified in Social Media Marketing through HubSpot and HootSuite and has designed and created various marketing strategies and campaigns including marketing analytical reviews. She has also been an NASD licensed securities supervisor, producer, and agent.

Courtney is a small business owner and the beekeeper of Green Fields Apiary.

Courtney strongly believes in serving the community and has served for several non-profit organizations in Central Texas. She has traveled extensively and enjoys engaging in new cultures.

ACADEMIC SERVICE:
ACC Quality Enhancement Plan Committee Member (2020-2021)
ACC Teaching and Learning Academy Student (2020-2021)
ACC Faculty Interest Group Member, Building Culturally Responsive Classrooms (2021)
ACC Faculty Interest Group Member, Distance Education (2020-2021)
ACC Distance Education Symposium Attendee (2020)
ACC TLED Course "ACC-Learn OER" (2020)
Quality Matters Certification (2019)
Completion of ACC TLED Faculty Courses: "Understanding Students; Paths, Teaching Learning Strategies," "Involvement Experience in an Online Course," and "Evaluation and Portfolio Process." (2019)
Completion of the ACC TLED "Distance Learning Instruction Series" (2019)
Judge for DECA State Competition, Texas (2018)

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:
Quality Matters APPQMR Certification
HootSuite Platform and Social Marketing Certification
HubSpot Social Media Marketing Certification
NASD Series 6, 26, 63 (expired)
Texas State Insurance Producer(expired)

COMMITTEES and SERVICE POSITIONS:
Generation Serve Volunteer
Carrying Hope Volunteer
People Fund Lending Advisory Committee
LISD/Williamson County Bond Advisory Committee
LISD PTA Board Treasurer, Parliamentarian, Historian
Austin Pets Alive Volunteer

Nick Sarantakes

Professor of Marketing

Austin Community College

Highland Campus

6101 Airport Blvd.

Austin, Texas 78752

Phone: (512) 223.7455

Fax: (512) 223.3427

Office: HLC 1428.05

sarantak@austincc.edu

Learn more about Nick...

Nick Sarantakes was employed by the U. S. Government for 22 years. He has worked extensively in many marketing positions that include retail, logistics, sales, and e-commerce. He served as an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin for 3 years. In addition, he served at ACC as an Adjunct Instructor in Management, Full Time Instructor in Management, Department Chair in Marketing, and later as Assistant Dean for Business Studies, and Department Chair for Marketing, Real Estate, and Financial Management. He is a past President of the Full Time Faculty Association. Currently he instructs the following courses, Principles of Marketing, Principles of Retailing, Principles of Salesmanship, and Customer Relations. He has traveled extensively in Europe and Asia, observing international marketing activities.

Mr. Sarantakes holds 2 Associate Degrees from ACC, a Bachelors of Arts Degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Science Degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was honored by receiving the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award which is awarded by the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. His professional affiliations include the Texas Community College Teachers Association and the Southwestern Administrative Disciplines in Marketing. He has authored a Student Study Guide for a major marketing textbook. His academic interests are in small business marketing, the automobile industry marketing and the airline industry marketing.

Gloria Evans

Associate Professor of Marketing

Austin Community College

Northridge Campus

11928 Stonehollow Dr.

Austin, Texas 78758

Phone: (512) 699.2949

Fax: (512) 464.6550

Office: NRG

gevans@austincc.edu

Learn more about Gloria...

Gloria is a native Austinite and received her Bachelors in Marketing from Southwest Texas in 1993. She worked in the Retail Management/Customer Service industry for five years. She obtained her teaching certification in Business and began teaching at Georgetown High School where for 5 years she taught Business Communication Information Systems (B.C.I.S), Business Multimedia Management and Principles of Marketing. She loved the marketing courses so much that within those five years she returned to Southwest to complete a second teacher certification in Marketing.

During the summer of 2000, Gloria completed an Internship with Austin Community College assisting with the Principle of Marketing Courses. At that point she really wanted to be a part of the ACC Marketing staff. She has been an adjunct for ACC since 2004 teaching the Principles of Marketing class and is enjoying every minute of it. You can also find her at McNeil High School where she is now the Career and Tech Academy Specialist helping students progress through courses related to career pathways of interest that allow will allow students to earn certifications and college credit before graduating from high school. She has also taught marketing courses such as Principles of Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Advertising as well as sponsoring DECA, a Marketing Association for High School Students.

Vanessa Farrow

Associate Professor of Marketing

Austin Community College

Hays Campus

1200 Kohlers Crossing

Kyle, Texas 78640

Phone: (512) 223.1790 x22129

Office: HYS 1204.06

vanessa.farrow@austincc.edu

Learn more about Vanessa...

Vanessa earned a B.S. in Textiles and Apparel: Apparel Design from The University of Texas at Austin, along with a Business Foundations certificate in 2007. Upon graduation, she completed an internship with Sikara & Co. Jewelry in downtown Austin, where she ultimately became the company’s first employee. Vanessa has represented the brand at numerous trade shows, worked with international manufacturers, and acquired first-hand knowledge of what goes into running a retail store. She oversaw wholesale and operations of Sikara & Co for 13 years, and she still helps the brand with inventory and ordering decisions. In 2017, Vanessa also started her own jewelry line called 805jewels. In addition, she became an Area Manager at Amazon in 2020, overseeing as many as 160 associates at once and helping in both the inbound inventory department and the outbound shipping department.

Kathy Walton

Assistant Professor of Fashion Marketing

Phone: (512) 223.1790 x22184