Texas College
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- Central Texas College board OKs contractPosted On: Friday, May. 22 ... - Killeen Daily Herald
- By Rebecca LaFlure Plans to build an 85000-square-foot nursing facility at Central Texas College are moving forward. The CTC board of trustees approved a more than $11 million construction contract with VCC on Thursday. The Irving-based general...
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- Torres sets American record, wins 50 fly in Texas - The Associated Press
- COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Dara Torres' last-minute decision to try the 50-meter butterfly turned out better than she imagined. Torres set an American record Friday morning, then improved that time in the evening final at the Texas Senior Circuit No...
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- Those who watched him crush balls for Grayson County College in Denison, Texas, couldn't decide if his future was as a first baseman or a pitcher. Playing for Grayson's 1999 Junior College World Series championship team, Lackey batted .428 with 15...
South Texas College of Law
Surrounded by hundreds of law offices and legal service providers in Downtown Houston, South Texas College of Law has a faculty of 59 full-time professors and 40 adjunct professors.
In 2008, US News and World Report ranked South Texas in the fourth tier of law schools.
South Texas offers a "3 and 3" program with Texas A&M University. This program makes it possible to obtain a Bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) in six years. South Texas College of Law is also part of a consortium of four independent ABA and AALS accredited American law schools—California Western School of Law, New England School of Law, and William Mitchell College of Law. The Consortium for Innovative Legal Education (CILE), combines resources designed to enhance and strengthen the educational mission of each school separately and all of them collectively. This partnership provides access to educational programs on a national and international basis. Students at South Texas can study abroad in London, Ireland, Malta, Prague, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Mexico.
In 2005, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Trial Advocacy Program at South Texas number one in the nation, and it consistently ranks among the top 10 every year.3 4 In 2006, South Texas won the Association of Trial Lawyers of America national mock trial competition, beating over 260 schools. In 2007, South Texas won the National White Collar Crime Invitational Mock Trial Competition hosted by Georgetown Law School. In 2008, the South Texas trial advocacy program was ranked sixth by U.S. News.
South Texas College of Law publishes several student-edited journals of legal scholarship, including Corporate Counsel Review, Currents: International Trade Law Journal, and South Texas Law Review.
South Texas sponsors the "Direct Representation Clinics," which provide legal representation to low-income residents of Harris County, Texas in the areas of family law, probate, estate planning, and guardianship cases. South Texas is also the first Texas law school to provide $400 each month toward student-loan indebtedness for its alumni working for non-profit legal-aid organizations that provide services to the poor.
Texas College
Texas College is a historically black four-year college located in Tyler, Texas that is affiliated with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the United Negro College Fund. The school was established by CME ministers in 1894 and briefly changed its name to Phillips University from 1909 to 1912.
Texas College offers bachelor's degree programs in art, biology, business administration, computer science, English, education, history, mathematics, music, physical education, political science, liberal studies, social work and sociology. Also available are Associate of Arts degrees in early childhood education and general studies, as well as an alternative certification teacher education program for people with bachelor's degrees.
The Steers and Lady Steers teams compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' Red River Athletic Conference in baseball, volleyball, softball, track, and men's and women's basketball. Its football program, revived as an official sport in 2004, is a member of the Central States Football League.
Residence halls include the Daniel Residence Hall and the Maddie A. Fair Residence Hall.
North Central Texas College
North Central Texas College (NCTC) is a community college serving Cooke County, Denton County, and Montague County, Texas. NCTC operates three campuses, the main campus in Gainesville and two branch campuses in Corinth and Bowie.
As with many of the early community colleges, NCTC started out as an extension of the local school district, in NCTC's case a branch of the Gainesville Independent School District known as Gainesville Junior College, courtesy of the efforts of Randolph Lee Clark, who previously started a junior college that later became Midwestern State University. The college was formed May 20, 1924 and held its first classes in the fall of that year.
For the first 22 years of the school's existence it shared the same building with Gainesville High School, also sharing teachers and administrators (not until 1957 were separate teachers hired for the college). In 1946 a building located next to the high school was purchased and the college had its own building.
However, by the mid 1950s the college grew to the point where sharing space with the high school was no longer practical. Local citizens passed a bond issue to build separate facilities for the college. However, discussions took place as to whether a separate entity, apart from the Gainesville ISD, should be created (including assessment of a property tax to support it). With the support of citizens such as W.T. Bonner (who donated the first 5 acres (20,000 m2) of the current campus, and later sold 45 acres (180,000 m2) more to the college), the voters passed the creation of the new district, and the college changed its name to Cooke County Junior College (the Junior was later dropped in the 1970s). In 1994, the institution's name was changed to North Central Texas College.
During this time, NCTC operated under a "gentlemen's agreement" with the other junior colleges, and thus no separate schools were formed in neighboring Denton and Montague Counties.
In 1992, president Ronnie Glasscock led the school to two major accomplishments. First, the "gentlemen's agreement" was codified into state law (however, neither Denton nor Montague are included in NCTC's tax base). Second, Glasscock lobbied for a name change, realizing that Cooke County College would handicap the college's effort to be a true regionally focused college. He was successful, and on June 1, 1994, the Regents voted to change the college's name to its current designation.
In January 2000, NCTC opened a branch campus in Bowie (to serve Montague County). The citizens of Bowie voted a 1/2 cent sales tax increase to build the 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2), $2.196 million facility. NCTC also opened the Corinth campus (to serve Denton County) at the same time.
Current president is Dr. Eddie Hadlock a 33 year veteran of the college. Dr. Hadlock had served as the Director of Counseling, Registrar and the Dean of Student Services.
South Texas College
South Texas College (STC) is a public community college based out of McAllen, Texas accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Bachelor of Applied Technology, Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees. STC has an enrollment of more than 21,000 students with a faculty and staff of 1,700 working across five campuses.
As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of STC includes all of Hidalgo and Starr Counties.
South Texas College currently employs 428 full-time and 228 adjunct instructors. There are 384 faculty members with master’s degrees, 46 hold double master’s, five hold triple master’s and 79 have doctorate degrees. In certificate and other programs, there are 97 faculty members holding bachelor degrees and 44 with associate degrees.
