 Welcome to Coastal Bend College!
Whether you enroll at CBC’s main campus in Beeville or at the other campuses in Alice, Kingsville or Pleasanton, you’ll find modern computerized facilities that are second to none. And at CBC you are more than a number in the computer - you are an individual. CBC administrators and teachers care. We know your name. We understand your feelings. There are small classes, and you will find free tutoring in our unique Learning Assistance Center where special seminars are held to stimulate your study skills, and reinforce what you have learned in the classroom. That’s possible with the computer-assisted instructional center staffed with tutors who work one-on-one with students.
CBC helps you develop skill for success. In the counseling center, you will get assistance in blending your talents in the field of study or career that best suits you. Studies of CBC graduates show that more than three-quarters are either working or earning university degrees. Similar studies show that CBC graduates have among the highest success rates in receiving university degrees - equal to those who began their studies at large institutions.
CBC strives to ensure that anyone who wants an education can get it. Scholarships, work-study programs and grants focus on your needs. Apartments, dormitory, class buildings, and parking are arranged in consideration of students with disabilities.
COLLEGE CREATED
Bee County Junior College District was created by election on November 2, 1965. The election resulted from several years of work to establish a community college for Bee County. Support was shown by residents in an overwhelming five-to-one majority for the creation of the district. The desire for a community college was again demonstrated on December 7, 1965, when district citizens approved a tax to support BCC, and bond issues to build the college. The Board of Trustees changed the college name from Bee County College to Coastal Bend College on September 1, 1998. The name change was made because the service area was extended by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1995. The Coastal Bend College
service area includes Karnes, McMullen, Live Oak, Bee, Duval, Jim Wells and Brooks Counties, and parts of Atascosa and Kleberg Counties. The original board of trustees was Robert J. Beasley, George F. Elam, Jr., Frank Jostes, Fred C. Latcham, Jr., Peter S. Marecek, Paul A. Schulz and George Spikes. The board, elected in November, selected Grady C. Hogue as the first BCC President. Its second chief executive, Dr. Norman E. Wallace, became president in 1984. Dr. John M. Brockman, became the college's third president on September 1, 1999. Dr. Thomas B. Baynum came to the college in 2007. The current interim president Dr. Jimmy Goodson started in 2012. Bee County College opened in September, 1967, with 790 students, 24 full-time instructors and 11 part-time teachers. Enrollment in academic, workforce education and continuing education classes during the spring of 2010 was 3,992.
Coastal Bend College does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, gender, age or disability.
Coastal Bend College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools:
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