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Blinn College

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School Notes:

• Blinn College, the Junior College District of Washington County, is located in Brenham, Texas, and serves a 13 county service area with campuses in Bryan and Schulenburg. The school was founded in 1883 by the Southern German Conference of the Methodist denomination under the name of Mission Institution. In 1889 the name was changed to Blinn Memorial College in honor of the Reverend Christian Blinn of New York who had donated a considerable sum of money to make the school possible. The institution was originally founded for the purpose of training young men for the ministry, but in the course of time, to meet the demands of the public, academic courses were added.
• After operating for five years as an institution for men only, Blinn College was made coeducational in 1888. Until 1927 the school was of academy rank. In 1927 the Board of Trustees, under leadership of President Philip Deschner, organized a junior college. In 1930 the school was merged with Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas). In 1934, a new charter was procured by the citizens of Brenham, and a private nonsectarian junior college, under the name of Blinn College, was organized with nine regents as the board of control. In February, 1937, all connection with Southwestern University and the Methodist denominations were severed. An election held in Washington County on June 8, 1937, for the purposes of creating a public junior college district and for levying a small tax, was successful. Blinn thus became the first county-owned junior college district in Texas. The college continues to operate as one of the largest of the state's 50 public junior/community college districts.
• For both the Associate in Arts Degree (AA) and the Associate in Science Degree (AS), any area of concentration offered at Blinn may be selected. However, traditional areas of concentration for the AA degree are: Communications, Criminal Justice, English, Foreign Languages and Speech/Theater Arts. Traditional areas of concentration for AS degrees are: Agriculture, Biology, Business/Accounting, Chemistry, Computer Science, Health/Kinesiology and Mathematics.
• Blinn College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approves the courses and programs offered by Blinn College.
• Profile last updated: 03/08/2010.

In the News:

• Calendar (The Bryan-College Station Eagle)
  posted on March 16, 2010 at 05:19:32 am
  TuesdayCLUBSBryan Noon Lions Club, 11:30 a.m. The Best Western Atrea, 1920 Austin's Colony Pkwy., Bryan. 731-5300.Brazos County Senior Citizens Association luncheon, noon. 1402 Bristol St., Bryan. 822-6873.College Station Kiwanis Club, noon, Hilton H ...
• Blinn's Bell Rings Up Two More Wins (KBTX 3 Bryan - College Station)
  posted on March 13, 2010 at 11:44:04 pm
  Tara Bell picked up her tenth and 11th wins of the season as the Blinn Buccaneers took two from the Galveston softball team.
• Nuti has gone from score book duty to scoring machine (Brenham Banner-Press)
  posted on March 11, 2010 at 05:58:50 pm
  Isaac Nuti’s opportunity didn’t come until Feb. 6 of this season, and there’s no way he could have seen it coming. Nuti had just 37 at-bats in his freshman season, and didn’t look to get too many more in his sophomore campaign.
• Blinn board OKs $20 million bond (Brenham Banner-Press)
  posted on March 11, 2010 at 05:58:10 pm
  With a little over $20 million dollars in hand, Blinn College is one step closer to going on a building spree which the administration and board of trustees have been talking about over the past several months.
• Blinn Baseball Sinks Dolphins (KBTX 3 Bryan - College Station)
  posted on March 11, 2010 at 04:44:04 am
  The Blinn baseball team rallied to outscore Alvin on Wednesday at Leroy Dreyer Field.

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