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Lon Morris College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Lon Morris College is a church-related, two-year college of the arts and sciences with a core curriculum emphasizing the liberal arts. As a two-year college, Lon Morris College offers two years of higher education, foundational for advanced degrees, for those going on to more extended general education or to specialized and professional study.
• Lon Morris College was founded in 1854 as the Danville Academy near Kilgore, Texas. In 1875, the school became the property of the East Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and changed its name to Alexander Collegiate Institute in honor of its president and outstanding early Texas educator, the Reverend Isaac Alexander. The charter was obtained in 1886, and in 1894 the school was moved to its present location in Jacksonville, Texas. The name was changed once more, in 1924, to Lon Morris College by approval of the Texas Annual Conference after R.A. “Lon” Morris of Pittsburg, Texas gave his estate to the school.
• Lon Morris organized the first Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, which was begun in 1929. Phi Theta Kappa is the national scholastic society for two-year colleges. Lon Morris is the only two-year United Methodist college west of the Mississippi River, and it is the only surviving pre-Civil War school in East Texas.
• The college offers an Associate of Arts (AA) degree, an Associate of Science (AS) degree, or an Associate of Fine Arts (AFA) degree.
• Lon Morris College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the University Senate of the United Methodist Church.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Bearcat cross country team finishes 27th at NJCAA championship (Jacksonville Daily Progress)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 04:32:56 am
  PEORIA, Ill. — In just their first year of existence, both the Lon Morris College men’s and women’s cross country squads qualified for and participated in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I National Championship Meet, staged in Peoria, Ill., last Saturday.
• Ex-Jaguar Ashford starts, scores 13 in Creighton’s loss to No. 24 Dayton (Jacksonville Daily Progress)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 04:32:46 am
  Several of last year’s Jacksonville College and Lon Morris College hoopsters had memorable starts with their new-NCAA Division I teams late last week.
• ASU Women's Basketball face Kansas State tonight (KAIT Jonesboro)
  posted on November 16, 2009 at 10:37:17 am
   Tip off is set for 7:00 p.m. in Manhattan, Kansas.
• Red Wolves to open 2009-10 season tonight (KAIT Jonesboro)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 10:36:47 am
  ASU travels to Omaha, Neb. to take on the Creighton Bluejays.
• Jacksonville Pro-Alcohol Group Names Members (Tyler Morning Telegraph)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 06:05:48 am
  The committee, named Progress Jacksonville, recently formed to explore the possibility of legalizing the sale of beer and wine in the city.

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