Welcome to General Assembly 2026—our signature annual event where the entire, todos, Austin Community College District connects, recharges, and looks to the horizon. This year’s theme, “A Reimagined ACC: Building for What’s Next,” challenged us to think bigger, adapt faster, and design an even stronger future for our students and community.
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Watch the Recordings
We Engaged
This year, General Assembly offered several ways to get connected and get engaged.
Resource Fair
The General Assembly Resource Fair gave us a chance to explore services, tools, and resources available to employees across the College.
Sharing Snapshots
The General Assembly photo booths captured your experience on campus, and you shared your moments with us on our special padlet wall.
Track Your Insights
We created a special Digital Passport where you tracked your insights, participated in our Menti Polls, and could save your notes to revisit later. Click here to access your passport.
The Experience At a Glance
General Assembly was our day to connect with colleagues, hear about College priorities, and get on the same page about how we’ll support our students through collaboration and increased awareness about collegewide efforts.
The day was designed to take us on a journey: from why we are doing this work, to how we will know it is making a difference, to the tools that can help us move the work forward.
Resource Fair + Breakfast | 8 - 9 a.m.
The day began with a special Employee Resource Fair starting at 8 a.m. in ACC Highland, Building 1000.
Keynote & Student Panel with Russell | 9 - 10:30 a.m.
Russell shared his preview for the year ahead, and then Ana Rummer sat down with a student panel.
ACC Talk: Theory of Change — What are we doing? | 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
The Theory of Change is a significant body of work that involved many people across ACC. Our first phase was about listening, learning, designing, and identifying opportunities for institutional change. Now we’re entering a different phase. We’re moving from: What should we do? To: How do we put this work into practice, learn from it, and keep improving?
Lunch | 11:30 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.
Guests selected among a variety of food truck options. See the full list of vendors below:
- TacoMan 512 (food truck): 3 street tacos with choice of al pastor, chicken, or veggie. Served on gluten-free corn or flour tortillas, with rice, beans, and a drink.
- P.Terry’s (food truck): Burger with choice of beef or chicken. Served with chips and a drink.
- Jags BBQ (food truck): BBQ sandwich with choice of chopped brisket, pulled chicken breast, or vegan pulled pork. Served with chips and a drink.
- J’s Hibachi (food truck): Choice of grilled chicken breast or grilled steak. Served with rice, vegetables, and a drink.
- Hungry J’s Pizza (food truck): Choice of 2 slices of pizza or cheese steak sub. Served with chips and a drink.
- Jason’s Deli (boxed lunches): Choice of turkey, ham, chicken salad, or vegetarian. Served with chips and a dessert.
- Arpeggio Grill (boxed lunches): Choice of chicken shawarma, gyro, or falafel. Served with rice, Greek salad, hummus, and pita.
- Chick-fil-A (boxed lunches): Chick-fil-A sandwich. Served with waffle potato chips and a chocolate chunk cookie.
Across ACC, helpers and teachers work every day to make the student experience better. We’re redesigning, improving, and trying new approaches. But there’s one question we have to be able to answer: Is it working? That’s the purpose of the Institutional Effectiveness (IE) Report Card. Nine metrics. 26 actions. One institutional story—building toward 2030. We explored what it means to be effective by knowing whether our work is making a difference, aligned by seeing how that work connects across ACC, and impactful by using what we learn to improve the student experience and advance student success.
ACC Talk: AI TRUST Framework — What tools can help us advance the work? |2 - 3 p.m.
AI is one set of tools we can use to support the changes identified through the Theory of Change and IE Report Card. We learned about ACC’s AI TRUST Framework and reflect on how it can help us scale our efforts and go beyond what we can accomplish today.
Closing Remarks with Russell | 3 - 3:30 p.m.
Russell shared reflections from the day and a recap of the discussions and questions from our breakout sessions.
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