President’s Announcements

STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVE

We had a great Data Retreat on October 30th, with our external facilitators of the Achieving the Dream component of our Student Success Initiative.  Over 100 faculty and staff participated, including 45 full-time faculty (including the faculty-elected coaches).  As I have noted before, Student Success Initiative is the coordination of the many success initiatives the College has in place, with the goal of increasing our use of data to drive program and service improvements.  The data used at the Retreat is now posted on the Student Success Initiative web site at:  http://www.austincc.edu/oiepub/pubs/data_retreat.html

ACC HOLIDAY PARTY

Don’t forget to buy your tickets before they sell out.  Tickets are now available for the Friday, December 4th ACC Faculty and Staff Holiday Party.  Tickets are $10 and are being sold at all campus cashier’s offices.  The party will take place at the Doubletree Hotel, 6505 North IH 35 (near Pappasitos), at 6:30 p.m. – midnight.

Contact Dahlia Anzaldua at 223-7595 or [email protected] for more event information.

ACC FOUNDATION – HAVE YOU DONE YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING ONLINE?

An easy way to give to the ACC Foundation and shop for those holiday presents is by going through www.GoodSearch.com.  As one of its designated charities, this Yahoo powered search engine will donate half of its advertising revenue to the charity designated by the user.  Use it as you would any search engine and help raise funds for the ACC Foundation General Scholarship Fund.  Every search raises more money!

If you do your holiday shopping online, go to www.GoodShop.com, the online shopping mall.  This site also donates a percentage of each purchase to the designated charity.  Hundreds of stores including Amazon, Banana Republic, Dell, Best Buy, HSN, eBay, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kodak, and many more have teamed up with GoodShop.

To fund GoodSearch, go to the ACC Foundation website – www.austincc.edu/foundation.  Scroll down the menu on the left and click on Ways to Give.  There you will find the link to GoodSearch.  It is a great way to help our students.

YAK ‘N SACK MEETING

The second Fall Yak ‘n Sack Meeting with the President is scheduled for Thursday, November 12th at 2:30 p.m. at the Northridge Campus, Room 3140.

Additional information can be found on the Yak ‘n Sack website:  http://www.austincc.edu/pres/yak.php.

Hope to see you there!

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