Northridge

Overview

Serving a little over 9,000 students last spring, Northridge has ACC’s highest enrollment. Home to a wide variety of degree specialties, Northridge is perfectly suited to students of many interests from an ear for music to an eye for details. In the on campus recording studio, students eager to break into music or Commercial Music Management can get their hands on the knobs and levels, mastering their fellow students’ vocals to a perfect pitch. The Choral/Vocal program at Northridge provides those singing students an opportunity to perform in a choir ensemble or work on solo skills. For the more computer oriented students, Northridge’s Computer Studies program offers degrees or certificates in Animation, Graphic Arts and Illustration, and is home to the widely popular Gaming Institute, for anyone who has their heart set on being the mastermind behind the next big game. For students that are a little more down to earth, the Physical Science department is about 610 feet down. Northridge is home to a 610 foot deep well that is used in partnership between ACC’s Environmental Science and Technology departments and Austin area secondary schools to teach students about local geology and environmental science. So, whether one wants to write opera, develop code, or dig deep into the natural world, Northridge campus has you covered.

Updates

2012-12-07 11:33

Youth Financial Education Coordinators Kelsey Balcaitis and Jeannette Freitag welcomed RB Savings Challenge contestant Crystle Castro and her friends to the final fall Northridge Coffee Chat in the student lounge, with others totaling 14 participants by the end of the program, along with Student Life Coordinator Quevarra Moten Arcoven. They reviewed information from previous workshops and meetings. Holiday budgeting and bargain hunting came up as students contemplated the Christmas season.

Several students talked about dealing with friends and family with spotty credit histories and out of control spending habits. These discussions benefited by the attendance of older, non-traditional students, who praised the program for bringing these issue out with the younger students. Federal fiscal policies and the middle class tax cuts came up, and students were urged to maintain an untouched rainy day fund or payroll deduction account for the inevitable unexpected spending and saving...

2012-11-01 13:32

Youth Financial Education Coordinators Kelsey Balcaitis and Billy O’ Briant welcomed RB Savings Challenge contestant Crystle Castro to the second NRG Coffee Chat, with others totaling 8 participants, including NRG Coordinator Quevarra Arcoven. They reviewed previous goals and discussed specific college financial aid issues such as the streamlining of paperwork involved and deadline/triggers for dispersal of funds. Strategies for paying off student loans were brought out by several students and Kelsey as well, from her college career in Wisconsin. The subject of savings bonds and other vehicles for long term gains, such as high yield starter CD type products (5 % return but a cap of only $1000.00) were mentioned, along with online resources for researching savings plans. Crystal, as a mother of three, shared their family’s targeted savings system for summer vacations and kid college funds.

 

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2012-10-11 10:26

Youth Financial Education Coordinators Kelsey Balcaitis and Jeannette Frietag welcomed RB Savings Challenge contestants Brooke Deitrick, Crystle Castro, Joy Eguavoen, and interested lounging students, for a total of 7 participants. The topic was "Budgeting Tips and Tricks," starting with how to track your expenses for a month to gather data, how to avoid impulse buys, and the perils of eating out constantly and how that can impact your credit line and your waistline.

Kelsey and Jeannette discussed budgeting spreadsheet resources available online at the A+ FCU website and elsewhere, and everyone shared stories of college loans and debt loads, discovering how even the cheapest item in the vending machine once a day for 10 days can equal a movie ticket. 

Participants later commented that the chat was great and very helpful.

 

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