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ONE-YEAR PROGRAM GROWTH An increasing number of students are enrolling at ACC. The largest growth has been in ACC’s fast-track programs, which include a variety of certi cates that can be completed within a short time span.
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Health sciences includes radiology, phlebotomy and more.
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Nursing options atACC are a bachelor’s degree, associate degree and a certi cate in nursing.
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about 5% of the money—over $38 mil- lion—will fund student services. ACC will be implementing wellness centers with mental health services as well as ramping up its “HyFlex,” or hybrid exible, classrooms that can accommodate in-person and virtual learners in the same class session, ACC Chancellor Richard Rhodes said. ACC is also planning on creating child care centers that have drop-o or all day options for student-parents at Riv- erside, South Austin, Eastview and Northridge campuses. Rhodes said the need for safe, a ord- able child care stems from the COVID- 19 pandemic when many child care centers in Central Texas closed, and about 8% of which have not reopened, according to the Texas Workforce Com- mission. Child care services will cost extra for students, but Rhodes said ACC’s goal is for it to be a ordable. “Students have to feel a sense of belonging, and you do that by provid- ing wraparound services,” he said.
industries, and we are thankful to only have a 2.8% unemployment rate,” she said. ACC works closely with companies, such as Tesla, to help students receive gainful employment after graduation, McRaven said, adding that the average ACC alumnus increases his or her income between 45%-65% over a ve- year period after graduation. Entry-level salaries for advanced manufacturing jobs that could be obtained by an ACC graduate range from $32,000-$47,000 annually. Positions in health care range from $26,000-$51,000 and IT jobs—such as those at Apple and Amazon—range from $33,000-$66,000, according to Lightcast Job Posting Analytics. “We’re all pushing for our students to get trained or retrained in these high- skilled job areas, because there are lots of job postings, lots of openings, and we don’t have a skilled labor force to ll those openings,” McRaven said. ACC’s focus on students While the majority of ACC’s bond dollars are going toward campus expansions for program development,
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company at individuals with jobs aligned with ACC programs. “What we’re really doing is that looked positioning a very large cohort of people to take advantage of jobs that are probably going to pay signi cantly above our median wage for the area,” Daniel said. The added space for the Hays campus nursing program will also impact the workforce, said Ashley King, director of health care partnerships at Workforce Solutions. In 2022, there have been 11,000 job postings for nursing positions in the Austin area, but only 950 graduates from Austin colleges were able to ll those positions, King said. “That’s the environment we are in right now. We are short on talent. We have a lot of new jobs and a lot of new
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9% increase in demand for advanced manufacturing jobs, while Austin alone has seen a 20% increase, said Bryan Daniel, chair of the Texas Workforce Commission, a government agency that provides employment resources to residents. Health care and IT have seen similar growth in Austin. Lightcast Job Posting Analytics, a labor market analytics company, analyzed job postings in ACC’s six county areas that ACC graduates could feasibly obtain after graduation. The data found that from January to June, there were over 12,000 postings for jobs in health care, and almost 25,000
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