Committee
Our program and curriculum are shaped by Austin's GIS leaders
The GIS Advisory Committee
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board requires Austin Community College to establish separate industry-based advisory committees for each workforce education program. The broad purposes of an advisory committee are:
to help a college document the need for a workforce education program; and
to ensure that the program has both adequate resources and a well-designed curriculum to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and behaviors necessary to successfully meet the needs of business and industry.
The advisory committee is one of the principal means of ensuring meaningful business and industry participation in program creation and revision. See the ACC GIS Advisory Committee Bylaws for a complete description of the committee's purpose, function, and membership; and the ACC GIS Strategic Plan for our vision statement and program-level workforce competencies and outcomes (summarized from the Department of Labor's Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM).
Committee Members
See the GIS Advisory Committee Members Biographies for a brief biography of each member and their committee tenure status.
Private Sector
Jacquelyn Bilbro GISP, ENCO Consulting
Shawn Devereaux, ONE Gas
Kristi Teykl GISP, AECOM
Emily Cowles, Indeed
Alexis Sheehy, Structure Texas
Ms. Jennifer Kirby, HDR
VACANT
Public Sector
Dr. Nathan Currit, Texas State University
Michelle Marshall, LCRA
David Shore, Travis County
George Strebel, Williamson County
Richard Wade, TxGIO
Jenn (Sylvester) Lash, TxDOT
Nathan Smith, City of Round Rock
VACANT
Committee Meetings
The ACC GIS Advisory Committee is required to meet at least once a year. Click on a meeting link below to view the corresponding meeting minutes.
No meeting in 2009 while awaiting BOT and THECB approval of program
April 1, 2016 (Bylaws Workshop)