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Austin Community College to open Ford Building campus in Lockhart, offering short workforce certificates by January 2026
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Austin Community College officials told the Lockhart City Council they acquired the Ford Building and plan to offer short-term workforce certificates and transfer-level courses locally, with an accelerated timetable and facility upgrades underway.
Austin Community College officials told the Lockhart City Council that the district acquired the former Ford building in Lockhart and expects to begin offering short-term workforce certificate programs there no later than January 2026.
ACC vice chancellor Chris Cervini said the acquisition of the Ford Building, completed about a month after the November 2024 annexation, “will allow us to offer courses in a facility that we control about a year before our original plan had us doing it.” He said that accelerating the timeline avoids a greenfield build and speeds local access to ACC instruction.
Associate Vice Chancellor Aziz Husani and Vice Chancellor of Instruction Galen Scott joined Cervini for…
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