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Not to be confused with Collins College (disambiguation).
Collin College 
Motto "We have a passion for: Learning, Service and Involvement, Creativity and Innovation, Academic Excellence, Dignity and Respect, and Integrity" Established 1985 Type Community college President Cary Israel Students 51,000 Location Collin County, Texas, USA Mascot Cougar Website www.collin.edu Collin College, formerly known as the Collin County Community College District, CCCCD, or CCCC, is a community college district which serves Collin and Rockwall counties, located north and northeast of Dallas. Founded in 1985, the district has grown as the county has grown: from around 5,000 students in 1986 to about 51,000 in 2011. In March 2007, the college re-branded itself "Collin College." The college changed its domain name to collin.edu in January 2010.
As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of Collin College is the following:[1]
- all of Collin and Rockwall counties, and
- those portions of Denton County within the cities of Frisco and The Colony, and those portions of the county included within the Celina and Prosper school districts.
Contents
Campuses
Spring Creek Campus
The Central Park Campus in McKinney opened in 1985 with comprehensive renovations completed in the fall of 2009.[2] New features include a multi-story parking garage, library, classrooms, offices, student development center and clock tower. The new library building totals 73,500 square feet (6,830 m2). The Central Park Campus is a comprehensive campus.
The Spring Creek campus in Plano opened in fall of 1988.[3] By number of students, this campus is the largest, providing general classes and housing the college system's honors,[4] fine arts, and athletics[5] programs. The campus features a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) art gallery,[6] theatre center,[7] gymnasium (Cougar Hall),[8] and tennis facilities (Brinker Center Court).[9]
The Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco opened in July 1995. The campus recently opened its new 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) "D" building including 26 general classrooms and four science labs. Collin College's business and high-tech programs are centered at Preston Ridge, and the culinary arts program moved there in 2009.[10]
Collin College also has campuses of smaller capacity in Allen, located in Allen High School,[11] in Plano, for continuing education, and one in Rockwall, (located in neighboring Rockwall County) within the Rockwall Independent School District’s Administration/Education Center.[12]
Courtyard Center campus- Allen Center
- Collin Higher Education Center (McKinney)
- Central Park Campus (McKinney)
- Courtyard Center (Plano)[13]
- Rockwall Center
- Preston Ridge Campus (Frisco)
- Spring Creek Campus (Plano)
- Farmersville (future campus site)
- Celina (future campus site) [14]
- Melissa (future campus site)
Collin Higher Education Center
In January 2010, Collin College opened the doors to its much-anticipated Higher Education Center, located at the intersection of Central Expressway and State Hwy. 121 in McKinney.[15]
The Higher Education Center hosts – among other things – a number of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs from five North Texas universities: Dallas Baptist University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas Woman’s University, The University of Texas at Dallas and the University of North Texas.
Offerings vary per university. Programs range from communications, teaching, management, Spanish, psychology, child development, counseling, nursing, criminal justice, business administration and accounting.[16]
Notable faculty
- Brad Baker — Recognized in 2000 as the U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.[17][18]
- Jennifer O'Loughlin-Brooks — Recognized in 2006 as the Texas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.[17][19]
- Dr. Rosemary Karr — Recognized as a 2007 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- Dr. Tracey McKenzie — Recognized as a 2009 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.[20][21]
- Dr. Levi Bryant - Continental philosopher, influential figure of the Speculative Realism and Object-Oriented Ontology movements
References
- ^ Texas Education Code, Section 130.175, "North Central Texas College District Service Area".
- ^ Central Park Campus - collin.edu
- ^ Spring Creek Campus
- ^ Honors Institute
- ^ Collin Athletics
- ^ THE ARTS gallery at Collin County Community College
- ^ Collin Theatre Center
- ^ Cougar Hall
- ^ Tennis Facilities - Cougar Athletics
- ^ http://www.collin.edu/campuses/prestonridge/index.html
- ^ http://www.collin.edu/campuses/allen/Index.html
- ^ http://www.collin.edu/campuses/rockwall/index.html
- ^ http://www.collin.edu/campuses/courtyard/index.html
- ^ http://www.celina-tx.gov/Home/in-the-news/collincollegebuyslandincelinatobuildacampus
- ^ http://www.collin.edu/chec/
- ^ http://www.collin.edu/chec/degrees/index.html
- ^ a b "Texas State Professors of the Year". US Professor of the Year Awards Program. Council for Advancement and Support of Education. 2010. http://www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org/winners/texas.cfm. Retrieved 31 March 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "Top U.S. Professors Honored". The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/press-releases/top-us-professors-honored. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ Madden (2006). "80(R) HR 854- Introduced Version Bill Text". http://www.legis.state.tx.us/search/DocViewer.aspx?K2DocKey=odbc%3A%2F%2FTLO%2FTLO.dbo.vwArchBillDocs%2F80%2FR%2FH%2FR%2F00854%2F1%2FB%40TloArchBillDocs&QueryText=&HighlightType=1. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ Aujla, Simmi (November 27, 2009). "Professors of the Year: Award Winners Are Celebrated for Innovative Teaching". The Chronicle of Higher Education LVI (14): A8. http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-of-the-Year-Are-/49208/.
- ^ Anderson, Lindsey (November 18, 2009). "Four teachers named U.S. Professors of the Year". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-11-19-professors-of-the-year_N.htm. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
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