Alamo Colleges District Honors, Awards and Launched Initiatives

 

Latest Featured Recognitions

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Alamo Colleges Earns Great Place to Work Certification™

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ACD Receives Achieving the Dream 20th Anniversary Network Legend Award

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Alamo Colleges Recognized as Leader for Excellence in Campus Internationalization

 

List of Awards & Recognitions

2024 

  • Network Legend Award (Achieving the Dream)
  • Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internalization (National Association of Foreign Student Advisers)
  • Great Place to Work Designation (Great Place to Work)
  • Building talent Enterprise Wide and Strategically driving a Talent development culture (BEST) Award (Association for Talent Development)
  • Leader College of Distinction (Achieving the Dream)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2023

  • Alamo Colleges District receives Bellwether College Consortium's Award for Excellence
  • Alamo Colleges District wins 2023 National Bellwether Award for program excellence
  • The Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center Selects the Alamo Colleges District for “Unlocking Opportunity” Initiative
  • Alamo Colleges District is recertified as a 2023 Leader College of Distinction by Achieving the Dream (ATD), a national nonprofit dedicated to advancing community colleges as hubs of equity and mobility in their communities
  • Building talent Enterprise Wide and Strategically driving a Talent development culture (BEST) Award (Association for Talent Development)
  • Leader College of Distinction (Achieving the Dream)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2022

  • Alamo Colleges receves the Award for Excellence in Student Success from the American Association of Community Colleges
  • Alamo Colleges receives the Franklin Covey Greatness Award
  • Building talent Enterprise Wide and Strategically driving a Talent development culture (BEST) Award (Association for Talent Development)
  • Leader College of Distinction (Achieving the Dream)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2021

  • Alamo Colleges recognized with Tambellini Group Innovative Technology Award 
  • ACD Chancellor wins Baldrige Foundation Award for Leadership Excellence
  • Four of our five Alamo Colleges named among Best Community Colleges in Texas
  • Alamo Colleges earns FranklinCovey Greatness Award
  • Four Alamo Colleges receive gold Veteran Education Excellence Recognition Award
  • The Alamo Colleges District earns the Award of Excellence for Student Success from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) for offering seamless pathways that lead to student success through its Transfer Advising Guides (TAGs).
  • MacKenzie Scott donates a record sum of $15 million to San Antonio College.
  • San Antonio College is the recipient of the $1 Million 2021 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
  • Northwest Vista College and Palo Alto College were named to the Aspen Top 150 community colleges
  • Building talent Enterprise Wide and Strategically driving a Talent development culture (BEST) Award (Association for Talent Development)
  • Leader College of Distinction (Achieving the Dream)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2020

  • PAC receives a transformative gift of 20 million dollars from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
  • ACD, SAISD Ink 1882 Partnership, Launch Alamo Collegiate Network
  • ACD Recognized with 2020 Ellucian Impact Award
  • Alamo Colleges honored with San Antonio Business Journal Resiliency in Business Award
  • Alamo Colleges District Honored with Rising Star Award by Campus Labs
  • Four Alamo Colleges Top in Nation for Online Community Colleges (NVC, PAC, SPC, SAC)
  • NLC, NVC, SAC Selected as 2020 Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges
  • St. Philip’s College receives the Texas Award-Next for Performance Excellence (TAPE) award. Northeast Lakeview College receives the Progress Level Recognition from the Quality Texas Foundation (QTF).
  • Alamo Colleges Nets $250,000 from JPMorgan Chase for AlamoPROMISE
  • ACD named one of 11 colleges in the Achieving the Dream (ATD) Network to earn Leader College of Distinction status for student outcomes and narrowing equity gaps.
  • Alamo Colleges Honored with 2020 Leah Meyer Austin Award from Achieving the Dream
  • Four Alamo Colleges Ranked in The Top 100 Associate Degrees Conferred Nationally by Diverse Issues of Higher Education
  • Building talent Enterprise Wide and Strategically driving a Talent development culture (BEST) Award (Association for Talent Development)
  • Leader College of Distinction (Achieving the Dream)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2019

  • HUD Secretary Carson Designates Alamo Colleges’ Eastside Center as Federal EnVision Site
  • Alamo Colleges Named Finalist for National Bellwether Award, One of 10 Nationwide and the Only Community College in Texas
  • Aspen Institute Names Three of the Alamo Colleges as Top 150 U.S. Community Colleges Eligible for 2021 Aspen Prize
  • The Alamo Colleges District Receives Top National Award for Website at Episerver Conference
  • Advocacy Centers are open at all five colleges and Alamo Colleges, San Antonio Food Bank Partner to Enhance Advocacy Centers
  • Alamo Colleges District Honored with Outstanding HACU-Member Institution Award
  • Alamo Colleges District Launches AlamoPROMISE To Provide the First Two Years Of College For Graduates From 25 Local High Schools
  • Three Alamo Colleges District Colleges Rated Among Top Online Community College Programs by BestColleges.com (SAC, SPC, PAC)
  • Alamo Colleges District Named Finalist for Excelencia In Education's Inaugural Seal Of Excellence
  • Alamo Colleges District Launches AlamoONLINE
  • Four Alamo Colleges District Colleges Make Top Ten List of Online Community Colleges In Texas (NVC, SAC, SPC, PAC)
  • Three Alamo Colleges Rank in The Top 100 Community Colleges for Hispanics by Hispanic Outlook Magazine (SAC, NVC, PAC)
  • Alamo Colleges District Named Finalist for San Antonio Business Journal’s 2019 Business of the Year
  • All 5 Alamo Colleges’ ranked among the nation’s Top 100 Degree Producers for minority students by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2018

  • Alamo Colleges Wins Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
  • Dr. Mike Flores assumed the role of chancellor of the Alamo Colleges District on Oct. 1, 2018, after unanimous vote by the Alamo Colleges District Board of Trustees.  He is the district’s first Hispanic Chancellor.
  • District Celebrates Topping Out of New Headquarters Building
  • AAA Bond Rating (Moody's)
  • AAA Bond Rating (Standards and Poor's)
  • Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting (Government Finance Officers Association)
  • Certificate of Distinction Award (Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas)
  • Leader College (Achieving the Dream)

2016

  • Alamo Colleges Recognized with the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE) for continual pursuit of performance quality by the Quality Texas Foundation