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.”
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.
When Amarillo got its a public television station in 1988, it was known as KACV-TV.
The station underwent a rebranding recently, dropping the old title and emerging under the name Panhandle PBS.
Panhandle Public Broadcasting Service started the Big Idea Challenge April 2. It’s a five-week puzzle full of scattered clues all around Amarillo.
The Challenge, in its first year, is a way to raise funds for Panhandle PBS.
Students will have a chance to learn more about Amarillo College’s Continuing Healthcare Education programs during an information session May 8.
The Amarillo College intramural sports program provides students a structured way to satisfy their competitive urges.
Located in Carter Fitness Center on the Washington Street Campus, students can join or create a team for a variety of competitive events.
As a child, Sarah Harrison loved to dance.
She was a normal little girl with lots of energy. Growing up in a charismatic church, one of Harrison’s favorite things to do was dance in worship.
Like most children, she enjoyed being active and participating in sports such as swimming and basketball.
Dalila Paredes has received an award for excellence in student completion for her foundational work to integrate the Science Enrichment Center with science courses and faculty.
Paredes, a biology instructor and the full-time supervisor of the SEC, is one of six faculty members who received an inaugural Faculty Excellence Award presented last August.
Each award was accompanied by a $500 stipend.
There are not many secrets left at Amarillo College. However, the AC theater department costume house is a lesser-known oddity at the school.
AC has had a theater program since 1973, but students did not always have a formal place to build and store their costumes.
“When I was a student from ’88 to ’90, there was not a place to construct, clean or build. We just didn’t have any place to go,” said Ray Newburg, a theater arts assistant professor.
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