The Alvin Community College Board of Regents voted unanimously on April 6 to select Dr. Robert Exley as the sole finalist for the college president position. A contract for Dr. Exley is set to be approved after a 21-day waiting period. The finalist was chosen after a nationwide search from the firm Greenwood Asher. Candidates were selected from a presidential search committee consisting of regents, faculty, staff, a student and members from the community.
The Alvin Community College Board of Regents reviewed a report on one of the college's strategic goals related to human resources during the board meeting on March 25.
Alvin Community College received $8.3 million from the American Rescue Plan Act recently enacted by Congress. Under the terms of the law, half of the funding would go directly to student support. The funding will be available over the next year until September 2023.
ACC Paralegal faculty member John J. Murray recently won the fiction prize from the Christian Author Awards for his novel "Better than our Dogs."
The Mu Upsilon Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa received several chapter and individual honors during the honor society's state convention that was held recently.
