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Howard College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• The Howard County Junior College District was created by a county-wide vote on November 17, 1945. Seven citizens of Howard County were elected on that same ballot to serve as a Board of Trustees. Howard College was first housed two miles west of downtown Big Spring in the hospital area of the former Air Force Bombardier School. The first session began on September 30, 1946. On September 12, 1951, the college was moved to a one hundred acre campus located in southeast Big Spring. On November 6, 1979, the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to establish the SouthWest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf as a part of the Howard County Junior College District. The first classes offered through this program began on August 25, 1980.
• Howard College/Big Spring physical facilities are located on a spacious campus. The 120-acre campus contains an administration-classroom complex, a two-story science building, a 14,000 square foot library building, a fitness center, a student union building, a music building, a practical arts building, an applied science center, a 28,000 square foot occupational building, residence halls for men and women, a 90,000 square foot coliseum complex, a baseball park, a softball park, and a football stadium with a seating capacity of ten thousand, utilized and maintained by the Big Spring Independent School District.
• Howard College is accredited by The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• NSU men facing early challenge at Texas Tech (The Alexandria Town Talk)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 08:56:52 am
  LUBBOCK, Texas -- Northwestern State's first road trip of 2009-10 carried the Demons into the plains of west Texas, familiar territory for a pair of NSU junior college transfers who could be key figures for the Demons Thursday night at Texas Tech.
• NewsWest9's Big Spring Studio Vandalized Again (News West 9 Midland)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 07:09:28 pm
  The studio was broken into Thursday evening. The vandals broke the glass in the front door and windows inside the building.
• Congressman pays tribute to veterans at Rusk celebration (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 02:53:43 pm
  U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway’s inaugural speaking engagement at Rusk Elementary School’s Veterans Day salute Tuesday also marked the first time he had attended the event. (VIEW Slide Show from Tuesday's event) [] Watch Conaway's statement on his appearance at Fort Hood following last week's shooting that killed 13.
• KWAB Burglary Investigation Continues in Big Spring, Reward Offered (News West 9 Midland)
  posted on November 9, 2009 at 05:40:26 am
  Big Spring Police are searching for culprits who broke into a local T.V. Studio. Police say early Saturday morning, someone broke in and trashed the KWAB Studio at Howard College.
• Founders, students, dignitaries to turn out for SWCID anniversary (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
  posted on November 6, 2009 at 07:41:31 am
  BIG SPRING -- The dedication of a $1.15 million technical training center at Southwest Collegiate Institute for the Deaf kicks off the campus' 30th anniversary celebration at 12:30 p.m. today.

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