Campus organizations collaborate to spotlight student performances, award prizes in ‘ACC’s Got Talen
Featuring what could become one of Austin Community College’s newest annual events, Eastview Campus hosted “ACC’s Got Talent” April 10. The event emulated the TV show “America’s Got Talent” and the voice behind World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Jeff “Let’s Get Ready To Rumble” Hathaway, was the master of ceremonies for the evening.
Green changes become part of food service training, equip students with valuable restaurant
Culinary arts students began cooking up earth saving measures earlier this month. Eco-friendly initiatives such as a new composting program, the use of biodegradable food containers and recyclable cutlery are now part of the department's environmental profile.
Visual Communication department student portfolio showcase open to the public.
Visual Communication department student portfolio showcase open to the public.
ACC Culinary Arts students cook, serve international cuisine at Bistro 3158 classroom with finale di
White table linens, gleaming silverware and soft lighting added to the elegant atmosphere during the Nov. 10 dinner service at Eastview campus's Bistro 3158 which featured the cuisines of London and Sri Lanka.
Bistro 3158, named for the classroom in which it is housed, marks the culmination of Austin Community College's Culinary Arts program and is run entirely by students. The dining room is run by first year students and the kitchen is run by seniors.
"It's like our thesis," Justin Whalin said. He was one of two chefs who showcased their six-course menus during the last official cooking class of the program.
Philosophy experts discuss recent international uprisings
Revolutions of the past and present shared the spotlight during the Oct. 6 panel discussion sponsored by the Austin Philosophical Forum at Eastview Campus. University of Texas at Austin journalism professor Robert Jensen,
ACC associate professor of government Roy Casagranda, and Texas State University student and activist Matt Korn guided the discourse.
College hosts transfer fairs, offers opportunity to meet university representatives
Students gained much needed information about moving on to a four-year college or university at the fall 2011 Transfer Fair events held at the Cypress Creek, Eastview and Round Rock campuses in September.
First African-American to fly in outer space speaks to students, says to "aim high"
Event showcases local talent, celebrates black history
Students seeking job positions get a chance to meet employers
The Latino community at Austin Community College gathered in the Eastview multipurpose room, on Sept. 8 for The Latino Student Success Reception, Plaza de Las Americas. The event was hosted to help Latino students understand the resources available to them at the college.
Students showed up for food and prizes at the Black Student Success Committee (BSSC) Networking Reception, and they also got a chance to meet faculty members and learn about resources available at Austin Community College.
We've narrowed things down a bit and are now in what I like call the final two sets of two. This week we'll pit the first two winners against each other: Eastview Campus versus Northridge Campus. Both campuses will start with a clean slate, and this time students have the chance to speak for or against the campuses. Let's get to it!
The Austin Community College Chapter of Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) hosted the fifth Annual TACHE Garage Sale and Silent Auction, featuring a wide range of generously donated items on April 1 at the Eastview Campus. The Silent Auction ran concurrently.
"This is the most important thing that's going to happen in your lifetime," Bill Darling, a partner at the Strasburger law firm, told the audience attending the recent Landscape of Health Care Reform Politics, Ethics and Law panel.
The American Sign Language Friends United (AFU) presented the first ASL Fusion: A Sign Language Musical Performance at the Eastview Campus on Nov. 17. The musical performance was held to raise funds for ASL Rocks which is an annual festival that will be held at the Eastview campus on April 17, 2010.
The first ever talent show showcased student skill at the Eastview Campus. On Oct. 22, ACC's Got Talent-Our Time To Shine, sponsored and hosted by Women of Influence (WOI), featured fourteen acts, including interpretive dances, singing, instrument playing, stand up comedy and rap.
Where to Shop? Alamo Thrift Store, 2502 Webberville With several strip malls filled with familiar names such as Family Dollar, Melrose and Walgreens surrounding the area, this small thrift store stands on its own on Webberville Road. It's located on the other side of the railroad tracks from Eastview Campus.
35th Birthday celebration in the works, news menu, and new season of Austin Cooks
Le'Bistrette, sponsored by the American Cuisine Restaurants class in the Culinary Arts Department, will be serving lunch on wednesdays through May 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 3000 Eastview Campus Building.The restaurant is run by students with the supervision of program faculty members of the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Departments.
After 35 years of providing educational opportunities to Austin's residents, ACC celebrated with ALL ACCESS: An Education Celebration and ACC's 35th Birthday Bash with Hip Hop Into College on Saturday, March 28, at the Eastview Campus. The event was open to the public and every participant received a VIP Pass with information on the various events at the celebration.
Students get free testing, info about chronic disease
The first Health Fair, sponsored by ACC's African American Cultural Center, occurred Feb. 18 on the Eastview Campus. Austin and Travis County's Health and Human Services (Community Health Initiative Division) provided an African American Quality of Life Van so that students were able to have a range of free tests including blood pressure tests, blood sugar tests and HIV testing as a part of the Black History Month events.
Immigration education hones on youth
Following a registration fee, hundreds of students packed into the multipurpose hall to participate in the second annual Immigration, Education, and Our Future Conference at the Eastview Campus. Austin Community College in partnership with St. Edward's University invited speakers and students to the conference.
Sigma Alpha Pi has several leadership events this semester, including speaker Tim Duffy and the Presidential Adviser Game. "It will be off the hook," said Student Life Coordinator Quevarra Moten. Duffy, a National Leadership Consultant, will speak to students on how to get ahead in their personal and professional lives on Feb.
Eastview campus hosts Youth Legacy Awards
This year's Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Legacy Awards were held at Eastview campus for the first time. In the past, the ceremony took place in several locations, including St. Edwards University and Huston-Tillotson University. The Legacy Awards took place on Sunday, Jan.
Fostering Support, an event hosted by the Foster Care Alumni Association of America (FCAA), took place at Eastview Campus, on Thursday, Nov. 20, . This event, created by Dr. Kathleen Christensen, vice president for Student Success and Support Systems, celebrated the creation of FCAA and the success of increasing awareness about higher education to Foster Care Alumni students.
Students mingle in interactive lounge
On Nov. 25, Eastview Campus Senator Arnold Perez organized a Student Life event called the EVC Meet and Greet, where the campus cafe transformed itself into an interactive lounge featuring inexpensive food, promotional student housing booths, and live music from current Northridge student Sugar Williams and her band, A Touch of Class.
English as a Second Language (ESL) and GED students had the opportunity to find out more about college life during the second annual College for a Day event Fri., Nov. 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Eastview Campus. Presented by ACC's Adult Education Division, College for a Day introduces GED and ESL students to the college environment, as well as to the tools necessary to succeed in the transition into college.
Students of the DEVR and Human Development Classes and the 50 Plus Club of Austin are hosting the Incredible Women Presentation at Eastview Campus on Nov. 19 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Those attending are encouraged to bring a food dish to the potluck. For more information on this event and to RSVP, contact Vonnye Rice-Gardner at 223-5114 or vgardner@austincc.
Students learn about universities, get involved with ACC
Walking past the multi-purpose room (8500) in the Eastview Campus on Oct. 22, students may have wondered what all the festive food, music, and booths were for. The Student Success Office hosted the third annual Latino Connection. The Latino Connection featured many booths displaying information on universities, scholarships, tutorials, and student groups.
fast-growing culinary arts department launches cooking show
The college's culinary kitchens have been heating up. Culinary art professors and the hosts of Austin Community College's first cooking television show are giving students a new, creative way of learning food industry techiniques - outside of the classroom.
More than 100 students and faculty from Austin schools gathered at the Eastview Campus Oct. 26 for Student's Life first Diversity Outreach Conference. The all-day conference focused on aspects of diversity - language, disability, class, age, race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, geographic origin, and others - through the use of video presentations, skits, and discussions.
Austin Community College's Bistro 3158, a restaurant put on by their culinary students, offers a tantalizing selection of food from different cultures and gives you an upscale dining experience. The restaurant, located at the Eastview Campus, is an elegant dining experience from the moment you walk through the door.
student mugged in campus bathroom
A 20-year-old Austin Community College student was the victim of an on-campus aggravated robbery, after a man followed her into an Eastview Campus bathrom and threatened her with scissors. The woman said she was followed from the EVC parking lot into the Health Sciences Building bathroom where the unidentified man wielded the weapon.
Austin Community Col-lege's Culinary Arts, Hospitality Management, and Meeting and Event Planning programs offer a fine-dining experience called Bistro 3158 at Eastview Cam-pus for nine weeks. The dinners are cooked by the second-year Culinary Arts students who are enrolled in International Cuisine, the last course needed for gradu-ation.
Bistro 3158 opens doors, serves food from around the world
Sarah Neve Campus Editor The culinary program's student-run restaurants reopened for the first time this semester on Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Eastview Campus. An impressive display of traditional French foods was on the menu for the opening. The program is headed by Chef Brian Hays, who teaches American Regional Cuisine, the class that puts on the lunch events for Le´ Bistrette, and Chef Brian McCormick who teaches International Cuisine, the class that puts on the dinners at Bistro 3158.
Faculty and students gathered at Eastview Campus Oct. 23 to offer free health and fitness screenings as part of the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. Organizers assessed students' body fat composition, posture, hamstring flexibility, grip strength, balance, and diabetes risk during the open house.
Austin Community College's Avenidas de Información Avenues of Information networking event hosted by the Hispanic Student and Staff Success Committee brought Hispanic students to Eastview Campus Oct. 3. "Because many Hispanic students are the first in their family to attend college, they are often unaware of services available to help them succeed," said Richard Armenta, associate vice president of student success.
Austin Community College will host its third annual "Hip Hop Into College" at the Eastview Campus on March 24 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. This event will showcase local talent and offer free health screenings. This year's host will be Lady Legacy, an ACC student studying commercial music management, who also does work as a youth advocate, guest speaker, and rap artist among many things.
Austin Community College's Eastview Campus celebrated Black History Month with their seventh annual Gospel Extravaganza on Feb. 17. This annual celebration and showcase of local gospel talent began when the campus opened in 1999. "ACC does more than books," ACC Campus Police Sgt.
Eric Hanson was many things. He was an artist, musician, avid reader, writer and a fluent speaker of Japanese. Hanson understood the delicacy of life. He was inspired by life and had a thirst for knowledge. At 18, he traveled to Hiroshima to see firsthand the devastation of the atomic bomb and lived with the hope that no one would go through that again.
ACC honored as the first stop of the touring photo exhibition
The Peruvian Consulate in Houston has chosen Austin Community College and its El Centro Latino/Latin American Studies Center to host "The Inca Trail: Qhapaq Ñan, El Gran Camino Inca," an exhibit of 80 photos that comprise the Inca Trail Exhibition, April 29-May 3.
Members of the Austin deaf community and deaf students of Austin Community College gave their third annual performance entitled "Deaf Monologues: A Tapestry of Deaf Experiences" at the Eastview campus April 21 and 22, in which they shared aspects of their lives.
Multi-talented artist shares his stories, experiences and unpublished works with ACC
Poet, playwright and performance artist Keith Antar Mason gave a poetry reading, March 23, at the Austin Community College Eastview Campus, in which he read works from his books along with poems from his personal journals never before published. First published at the age of nine, Mason won the Harvard Book Award in 1974 at the age of 17.
Of all the Austin Community College campuses, the one to feel more like a community rather than college would be the Eastview campus. So much so, that after students complete their degrees at ACC, they often return to the campus manager Juanita Mendez' office to give her a copy of their graduation picture.
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