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SDD20: ACC Foundation – Building Collaborations for Affordable Accessibility and Student Success
Hours: 1.5
The ACC Foundation supports the college and raises funds to ensure student success. Through partnerships and the generosity of donors, the Foundation provides scholarships, training equipment and student support. Additionally, the foundation manages a growing student emergency fund. The Foundation wants to improve its visibility, create collaborations and relationships among ACC faculty and staff to increase scholarship awareness.
Scholarships can drastically change the lives of students both economically and academically. Economically, scholarships make accessibility affordable by reducing or removing economic barriers to admission. Academically, recipients are 3 times more likely to graduate because they earn more credits per semester, have higher GPAs and higher persistence rates.
A participant walks away with:
1) Understanding of ACCF
2) Learn about scholarships and student emergency fund to support student
3) How to participate in scholarship process
4) How to participate with raising funds for ACC students
Presenter(s):
Curtiss Stevens is an interim Executive Director at Austin Community College, Austin, Texas. He is responsible for directing and administrating the overall planning and activities of ACC Foundation.
Curtiss has more than 20 years’ experience in higher education, including roles in admissions and financial aid, student affairs, international education, academic and life skills training, curriculum development, athletics and as a geography professor. He has worked at Valparaiso University, Western Michigan University, Indiana University Northwest, Purdue University Northwest, and the University of Texas at Austin. Curtiss was also an Executive Director of The Boys & Girls Club and lived in Europe for 10 years where he taught ESL and trained professional athletes.
Curtiss earned a bachelor’s degree in Geography at Valparaiso University, a master’s degree in Geographic Education and Research at Western Michigan University, and did doctoral studies in Economic Geography at Indiana State University.
Ann Schubert is the Operations Coordinator for the ACC Foundation. She handles the robust Foundation scholarship program, stewardship of donors, financials, and works with many ACC employees and students to raise awareness of scholarship opportunities.
Ann started working in higher education while attending the University of Texas in Austin where she worked as an Orientation and Liberal Arts Advisor. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, she started working for Austin Community College. She has worked at ACC for 28 years, spending 16 years in Financial Aid where she specialized in training, verification, awarding and scholarships. She has worked in the ACC Foundation for the past 12 years where she strives to assist students to access the resources they need to pursue their education and career goals. |
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