Ina Midkiff
Department Chair and Professor of Marketing, Real Estate & FinanceAustin Community CollegeCypress Creek Campus 1555 Cypress Creek Road Cedar Park, Texas 78613Phone: (512) 223.2072Office: CYP 2204.8Directory Listing and Office HoursCurriculum VitaeFaculty Website ina@austincc.edu
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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 AssistantAustin Community College
Cypress Creek Campus
1555 Cypress Creek Road
Cedar Park, Texas 78613
Phone: (512) 223.2199
Office: 2204.1
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Courtney Ahrenholtz
Professor of Marketing and FinanceAustin Community CollegeCypress Creek Campus1555 Cypress Creek RoadCedar Park, Texas 78613Phone: (512) 223.2069Office: CYP 2204.10Directory Listing and Office HoursCurriculum VitaeFaculty Websitecourtney.ahrenholtz@austincc.edu
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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 MarketingAustin Community CollegeHighland Campus6101 Airport Blvd.Austin, Texas 78752Phone: (512) 223.7455Fax: (512) 223.3427Office: HLC 1428.05Directory Listing and Office Hours Curriculum Vitae Faculty Website sarantak@austincc.eduLearn 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 MarketingAustin Community CollegeNorthridge Campus11928 Stonehollow Dr.Austin, Texas 78758 Phone: (512) 699.2949Fax: (512) 464.6550Office: NRGDirectory Listing and Office Hours Curriculum Vitae Faculty Website gevans@austincc.eduLearn 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 MarketingAustin Community CollegeHays Campus1200 Kohlers CrossingKyle, Texas 78640Phone: (512) 223.1790 x22129Office: HYS 1204.06Directory Listing and Office Hours Curriculum Vitae Faculty Website vanessa.farrow@austincc.eduLearn more about Vanessa...
Kathy Walton
Assistant Professor of Fashion MarketingPhone: (512) 223.1790 x22184Directory Listing and Office HoursCurriculum VitaeFaculty Website
kwalton@austincc.edu
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Kathy Walton is an adjunct faculty member at ACC and has taught Marketing, Fashion Merchandising/Design, and Management classes at several institutions for over 25 years. Those institutions include Austin Community College, Salt Lake Community College, Purdue University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned a BS at New Mexico State University in Home Economics in Business (fashion focused); MS at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Home Economics with a Merchandising emphasis; and a PhD in Education focusing on Community and Human Resources. In addition to serving as a faculty member and occasional department coordinator at Purdue and SLCC, she has served as the Director of Community Education at Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, TX and is currently the Executive Director of Corporate Training Solutions at ACC. Kathy has also served as a consultant/industry trainer to numerous companies throughout the country through her consulting firm, Magistra Enterprises.
Kathy has been very active with Collegiate DECA, a student organization for people interested in careers in Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship. She has been a chapter advisor, state advisor, regional board representative, and served on the National Board of Directors as the secretary, president-elect, and as the President. She has received numerous awards from Collegiate DECA including Texas Advisor of the Year, 25 Years of Service, and the Honorary Life Member Award (the highest award given in the organization) in 2007. In addition, she received the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award from UT-Austin in 1995; the Teaching Excellence Award from SLCC in 1989; Marketing Teacher of the Year for the state of Utah in 1987, 1990, and 1999; Utah Vocational Educator of the Year in 2000, and the Top 100 Alumni from the Past 100 Years at NMSU in 1988. She is active in the Texas Association of Continuing Education and is a Travis County Master Gardener.