Learning From Kindergarten to College
— Brazosport College
Located in Brazoria County, Brazosport College (www.brazosport.edu) is an open-door, equal-access higher education institution committed to providing the best courses, programs and activities that can be organized and presented to meet the identified needs of adult learners from varied backgrounds. Since its establishment in 1968, the college has played an important role in the personal successes of more than 125,000 students. In recent years, Brazosport College has graduated just more than 200 students annually and has become the key provider of a highly trained workforce for local industry employers in Brazoria County.

— College of the Mainland
College of the Mainland (COM) (www.com.edu) is located in Texas City, 15 miles north of Galveston and 40 miles south of Houston. The college offers a supportive, quality, affordable opportunity to acquire the intellectual, cultural, social and economic skills required today. The learning opportunities available at COM extend from pre-college adult basic education, ESL, GED and developmental studies to college core curriculum and general studies courses that transfer to senior colleges and universities. In addition, technical programs offer Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees in process technology, computers, networking, business, child development, criminal justice and other fields.

— Galveston College
Galveston College (GC) (www.gc.edu) provides the citizens of Galveston Island and the surrounding region with academic, workforce-development, continuing-education and community-service programs. GC serves an ethnically diverse population of approximately 2,400 students each semester in credit programs and nearly 5,000 individuals annually in continuing-education and workforce-development programs. With a full-time staff and faculty of more than 150 employees and nearly 90 reserve faculty members, GC has proven to be a progressive, dynamic institution of higher education known for its partnerships with businesses and organizations and its commitment to providing a quality learning environment that is student-focused.

— Houston Community College System (HCCS)
HCCS’s (www.hccs.edu) student body mirrors the diversity, openness and opportunity of the world-class city that is Houston. Since its opening in 1971, HCCS has educated and trained more than 1.3 million students. The community college provides academic courses for transfers to four-year institutions, terminal degrees and certificates in more than 70 fields of work, continuing education and corporate training.

— Lee College
More than 9,000 Lee College (www.lee.edu) students are enrolled in academic, technical-education and noncredit continuing-education programs each semester. Basic education is available for those seeking to improve skills in reading, writing, mathematics and language in addition to a regionally acclaimed honors curriculum. The college is located 25 miles east of Houston in Baytown.

—Lone Star College System
Lone Star College System (LSCS) (www.lonestar.edu) consists of five colleges, including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris and LSC-Tomball; six centers; LSC-University Center; Lone Star Corporate College; and LSC-Online. With more than 69,000 students in credit classes last in fall 2010, LSCS is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and third largest community college system in Texas. LSCS is a publicly supported, two-year, comprehensive community college system that involves diverse individuals, businesses and the community in quality education opportunities for the successful development of knowledge, skills and attitudes for a rapidly changing world.

LSCS University Center is a partnership of universities and the colleges of LSCS providing unduplicated bachelors degrees, masters degrees and continuing professional studies to the college service area. Utilizing partnerships, seamless credit-transfer programs, collaborative governance, shared facilities, interactive telecommunications and “first-stop” student services, the LSC-University Center serves as the critical link for community development and individual opportunity to more than 1.5 million citizens of North Houston, North Harris County and Montgomery County.

— San Jacinto College
San Jacinto College (www.sanjac.edu) is a public community college in Harris County serving a district defined by the combined areas of these independent school districts: Channelview, Deer Park, Galena Park, La Porte, Pasadena, Sheldon and Clear Creek. Students are offered academic courses that transfer to a senior college or university, technical courses that lead to a certificate or associates degree and provide job-entry skills, continuing-education programs and courses and contractual agreements with external agencies. To increase the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the San Jacinto College offers the Aerospace and Biotechnology Academy, an innovative P–20 education-industry-government collaboration designed to address the shortages of high technology practitioners and the mathematics and science teachers needed to produce that workforce.

— Wharton County Junior College
With a 2011 enrollment of nearly 7,000, Wharton County Junior College (www.wcjc.edu) offers an associates of arts degree for those intending to transfer to a four-year institution, associates of arts in teaching degree, associates of applied science degrees and certificate programs. Distance-education courses are available online via interactive television and videocassettes.

   
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