Amarillo College Ranger

Issue date: 9/8/05 Section: News

Media Credit: Laura Leedy The new computer room in the Amarillo College Community Link now provides a less distracting place for students to do their schoolwork. [Click to enlarge]

Amarillo College's Community Link is a place where students and members of the community can go to use computers, take classes to further their education, prepare for college or get to know software better.

Before recent renovations, Community Link was one big room with dividers to make up several small rooms to conduct classes in.

Because there were dividers, students could hear all the classes going on at one time, which made it hard to concentrate if you were there taking classes or just working on the computers.

In seven months, Community Link underwent $322,000 worth of renovations and reopened before this semester started.

The service went from 1,350 square feet to 3,350 square feet. The Community Link facility moved into the old Maxor building in 2000.

Community Link now has separate rooms so students aren't distracted by ongoing classes' noises as with the former dividers.

"I think the students' grades and education will improve, because the area of the building is more comfortable and we can prepare the high school students more for college classes now," said Leticia Sanchez, a Community Link employee.

The hours for Community Link are 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. Community Link's location is 2412 N. Grand St., across from Amarillo National Bank.

Students can go there to work on the computers at no charge, classes are offered at affordable rates.

"It sounds like a cool place to go to for the community to get a higher education and to all in all get back on the right track in that part of Amarillo," said Jared Hoskins.

Class subjects include Microsoft Office, English, some Contuning Education, test prepartion, citzenship and GED.

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