New & Noteworthy
Online Training: A wide variety of non-credit online programs are offered through the ACC Center for Personal and Professional Development.
Great Decisions will take you beyond the headlines by providing a look at eight of the most thought-provoking foreign policy challenges facing the US and the world today. The Great Decisions publication, produced by the Foreign Policy Association, provides background information, current data, and policy options for each of the eight issues and serves as the focal text for discussion groups.
Veterans' Stories is course intended for all military veterans as well as families and friends of veterans who have wartime stories they'd like to preserve. If you'd like to turn your personal experiences into written and oral stories so they can be preserved and passed on to others, this is the class for you.
What is Lean? Lean is a process designed to bring about rapid, dramatic improvements in the performance of an organization through a simplification of the value stream. Lean consists of a comprehensive set of elements, rules, and tools that focus on value, the elimination of waste (any activity that consumes resources but creates no value for the customer), and continuous incremental improvement.
What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a business-driven, multi-faceted approach to process improvement, cost reduction, and increased profits. With a fundamental principle to improve customer satisfaction by reducing defects, its ultimate goal is virtually defect-free processes and products.
This hybrid approach to learning Medical Transcription was developed in order to provide students the flexibility of doing most of their schoolwork at home. Using a combination of instructor guided and work-on-your-own scheduling, students attend intermittent classes on the ACC campus, but complete assignments and testing at home in an .online. classroom.
