My review is concerning the admissions office. I had an advisement appt. for next semester. I have enrolled in the school, but not a program. I was told by an adviser to get a Transcript Eval bc I hold a bachelors degree from another university. So you walk in and every employee looks like they're in prison. There was no line bc it's a weird time, which was a plus. The first woman I spoke with, after explaining I needed a transcript evaluation, asked for my ID, which I'd left in the car. So I went out to retrieve it. Once I returned the same woman was not waiting on anyone, but didn't make eye contact so I waited. She knew what I needed but I guess didn't want to do it...? So her coworker calls me over and asks for my student ID#. Not my state ID, which I was just asked to retrieve; my student ID#. So then I had to look that up. He wasn't happy about that. Then he asked what I needed and I told him. He said they don't conduct Transcript Evaluations until you've taken a class. When asked why the adviser told me to get one he said he didn't know. I pressed a little more, asking if I could just file the paperwork to see what would happen, and he said no. So 2 things: 1. These people who work 20 feet away from each other are giving me conflicting information. Great way to start off with your students. 2. They won't evaluate your experience until you've taken courses. So if you don't know what is missing from your history, you're SOL. You just have to guess and hope that the course you chose is what you need. The 'advisors' won't 'advise' you until you've spent money. Also, to the person in the admissions office, Anthonee A., if you don't like your job, get a new one. read more

Austin Community College has to be one of the most unprofessional, difficult, and just genuinely worst colleges I have ever interacted with. I have never felt so belittled, unimportant, and unheard by so many educational leaders, and it saddens me that their faculty does not care about its students or their futures. My first semester of college, I went out of state to Oklahoma State University. After my financials became a challenge, l decided to move back home to Austin and attend ACC for a few semesters, at least until I received my associates. The process of transferring from OSU to ACC was so difficult, no one was helping me, and each counselor I spoke to gave me different answers in terms of which credits would transfer and which ones wouldn't. The financial aid office was unclear on how their policies worked, and despite my multiple attempts to get answers, I still do not know where I stand in terms of financial aid. ACC is supposed to be the starting place for the future leaders of the world, and yet they do not aid their leaders in their educational journey. After talking to other ACC students, I realized that I was not the only one with this experience and I could not believe that a college, even if community based, could be so indifferent toward its students. I hope ACC gets its act together soon, but for now I cannot wait until I never have to step foot on the premises again. read more

I just started taking two classes at this campus for Spring 2017 semester. I am working towards getting my nursing degree and I am required to get my prerequisites out of the way first before applying for the Nursing program. With that being said that requires me to retake Anatomy and Physicology 2 since I didn't meet their 5-year limit. I took both AP1 and AP2 in 2005 and 2006. Frustrating and kind of understandable. The two classes I am taking on campus are exact opposites. I will go to rate my professor later to review each teacher but the quality of teaching aren't even equal to each other. One professor is awesome and really wants his students to succeed, makes class fun, and still challenging. My other professor could careless and makes things over complicated. Why I am learning more information than other students who are taking the exact same class with another professor? I have even used their free tutoring service and the tutor who is a nurse looked at me like I was asking questions in Greek. On to the campus and parking lot. Currently I have a handicap parking permit which makes it easier for parking. Thank you knee surgery because if I didn't have that handicap permit I would probably be like everyone else and either have to arrive super early to campus or park on the street. This location has a gym which is nice. I haven't used it yet but I love the option since it is in the same building as my classes. The buildings are very outdated and could use a good remodeling. I know that ACC is working on remodeling a few of their other locations. Maybe it is a future project? The campus location is located in a seedy neighborhood. I feel safe going to my car because I can park in the back lot. I am not sure how I would feel if I had to park on the street and have to go to my car after a night class. I do know they offer escorts to take you to your car at night. read more

The advisors at this campus were all very helpful. My wife had to take a lengthy 4 or 5 part ESOL test today to be placed in two advanced ESOL classes. The oral tester, Ann (who is also an ESOL professor) was extremely helpful in advising my wife on what to take and also commended her on her English speaking proficiency. Very nice lady! The last advisor we talked to was able to put her in one class and suggested we look online Monday to see if there are drops in the other class she needs. Helpful guy as well. But, I was simply astounded with the needless complexity of the ACC website he was using to register her. Is it just me? Or is the website overly complicated and frustrating to use when registering for classes? The site needs to be seriously simplified. It can't even update in realtime to show that classes are actually closed. There seemed to be a lot of copy and pasting as well. I went home to log into it, look around and just get familiar with the site for when I try and add a class for her on Monday. It took me forever to finally navigate to where you ACTUALLY register, add and drop. At first I kept ending up on a page with low rez instructions on "how to register." Okay, great. But where's the link to actually register? Also, at times, I put in the ID and password and seem to get into a loop or pages that aren't even there. Really, the whole thing seems like a poorly designed website from sometime around the end of the 1990s. Why can't it be as simple as buying something at Amazon. Add the classes to a cart and then check-out? Maybe that can't be done. I don't know. When I went to college, we didn't even have phone registration. So 5 stars for the helpful folks at ACC, but 1 star for their nutty website that completely baffled 2 experienced computer users. EDIT 08/24/09: I am so glad I was allowed to add my wife's other class late Sunday night. Their junky website is completely crashed on Monday - the first day of add/drop. read more

This is the Kines/physical education campus and so you will see people generally in their workout gear. It is the campus in the ghetto, and plenty of buses run to and from this campus. I have taken a many classes at this campus and actually preferred it for a long time because of my major. The students are generally nice, they have a new smoothie cafe (as in a company bought out the old cafe) on campus, and never had a car broken into. I noticed that they don't care if you actually have a car permit or not.. so not sure if you need to actually buy a permit or not. Over all I like this campus and will continue to take classes here as needed. read more

Simon's Cafe....decent food, awesome smoothies, and beautiful scenery. Tin Cup...good beer! read more

In the first place, when I was here, this was considered the HISPANIC campus because almost all of the students and personnel who worked here were predominantly Hispanic. and it was La Raza Unida kind of Spanish which means (expletitive) whites and blacks and para La Raza todos y nada para los otros. The work-studies people wouldn't talk to me,. They said I wasn't am American citizen. I was born in Texas and I look white so what is up with that --and yes, I understood every word they said in Spanish although I pretended like I didn't. just for the hell of it. Big prejudice against older students who look white at that time. I hope it is better. I was taking nursing & pre-med classes here and I enjoyed using the showers because I was rather homeless at the time. There was a super breakroom and I can't remember if there was a Simon;s cafe there or not. Bus access but it also went to the Travis County jail and I learned a lot just by listening. I loved taking the bus and learning a lot of information and seeing who was getting out of jail and the families who had visited and because I looked the part of a homeless bum, they ignored me much. Almost every bus ride was an adventure because sometime there were fight and threats and you never knew what was gong to happen. This campus at the time had labs and library facilities open when the other campuses were closed so I hung out there. I can't remember ever eating there. The place had been a country club once so they had a golf course but I don't play and the gym got all of the gear when Bergstrom AFB closed. I never used it. the instructors were GREAT the librarians were extremely helpful. The students were very unfriendly and I never could find the study partners we were supposed to have I was able to help instructors hook up with useful things that would help start the Mexican American studies program and my A & P professor got to see an entire morning of autopsies at the Travis County Medical Examiners office because my mother had a friend who worked there. I wasn't expecting any special favors--I did it because i could and I wanted to help them broaden their real life experiences I was glad to get out of there,frankly but the warm showers and the studies were the best things about this place! read more

ACC is so disorganized. The employees are all pretty nice but they don't actually get anything done. Paperwork never goes through and communication is poor. Very frustrating process to enroll and register. read more

We have been trying to sign up and register for classes here for over two months. First, we couldn't get in contact with an adviser for information about pre-requisites; my partner emailed SEVEN different contacts at the Riverside campus, 5 of whom never responded, 1 told him to just look at the website, and 1 referred him to someone at a different campus - in SAN MARCOS. After much run-around, we finally got the information we needed and he registered. Meanwhile, he applied for financial aid and submitted the FASFA. Unbeknownst to him, there was 1 document missing. ACC let it continue to go missing for 4 weeks without ever notifying him "Hey, you still need this document before we can process your aid application." Once he called to find out the status, then they felt it was time to let him know he was missing something. It takes 6-8 weeks for financial aid to be processed and awarded. By the time he finally had his aid application complete (due to no communication from ACC), his aid now won't be awarded until 2 weeks after the tuition payment deadline, so tuition will be going on our credit card until the award comes in. So far, very disappointed with the service ACC Riverside is providing. It should NOT be this hard to get into a community college class. read more

I've attended almost all of ACC's campuses and this one isn't that bad. At least there is parking (sometimes). I would have to agree that the website is "nutty" and I have trouble navigating it frequently. Overall as long as your class isn't in building E than you shouldn't be too terribly upset. read more

I started school here because of the availability of the classes I needed. Even though it's a little further out of my way, I choose to continue to drive here for class. They have everything you need, like VA and Financial Aid offices that are incredibly helpful. read more