BREAKING NEWS: AC employee stuck in Lynn Library elevator
An Amarillo College employee was stuck in the elevator between the first and second floors of the Lynn Library around 3 p.m. Thursday.
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Matney honors 2 recipients with President’s Special Achievement Award
Amarillo College Dr. President Paul Matney presented Judy Carter, honors coordinator, and Bruce Cotgreave, director of the physical plant, with President’s Special Achievement Awards at the board of regents meeting, April 22.
Bobby Clift receives prestigious award
Bobby Clift, an engineering major, has been named Silver Scholar on the 2014 Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team and received a $1,250 scholarship at the Honor Society Annual Convention April 25 in Orlando, Florida.
Stepping away from the books
Badgerama is a day when students get to take some time away from the books and those people who keep waking them up in class. There are games, food and every club supporting its cause. The band selected to play on this Badger-filled day was Nashville’s Mockingbird Sun.
Crank up the music
Amarillo College’s annual spring celebration, Badgerama, moved into Carter Fitness Center on the Washington Street Campus April 17 because of the weather.
Mockingbird Sun, a band out of Nashville, played for an audience of students as they ate barbecue and participated in games and other activities in keeping with this year’s “two-step” theme.
Don’t let the bed bugs bite: Students need sleep to be healthy, successful
Eighty percent of college students are dangerously sleep-deprived, according to a Stanford University study.
Being sleep-deprived causes poor judgment, increases the risk of fatal accidents and decreases the body’s ability to concentrate.
Alan Cox: a teacher with a ‘magnificent obsession’
Few people are fortunate enough to make a living doing something they truly love. At least one instructor at Amarillo College feels lucky to be one of the few.
When he was working on his degree in business administration at Texas Tech University, Cox chose history as an elective.
Ready. Set. Record.
Amarillo College offers many options for degree programs: almost everything to choose from. But Scott Beckett, a music instructor, is pioneering a new degree that would bring recording arts to the foreground as the premier program at AC.
“We are in the process of creating a degree program,” Beckett said. “In order for us to officially launch this program, we have to have five years of tracking. In another two years, it will be a full program.”
West develops photo outreach
When asked, many students said they’d be hard-pressed to find an instructor as passionate as Rene West.
An Amarillo College photography instructor since 2008, West has shared that enthusiasm with the many students who have passed through her classes.