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SPC was established in 1927 as St. Petersburg Junior College by Captain George M. Lynch, the city superintendent of schools for St. Petersburg. It was founded as a private, non-profit institution to provide affordable, local access to higher education during the economic downturn preceding the Great Depression . [ 5 ]
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A press release from the Department of Health and Human Services on June 5, 2013, indicates that $187.4 million was released to states to help low-income homeowners and renters with rising energy costs. This funding supplements $3.065 billion in grants made available earlier in the year through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program ...
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American Association of Community College's President's Round Table, Member, 2011–present; Admiral Farragut Academy, Executive Board Member, 2014–present; Council for Student Affairs, Florida College System, Region 4, 2012 – present; City of St. Petersburg 2020 Plan Education Sub-committee Chair, 2015–present
Florida College System 1927: St. Petersburg Junior College founded as private, two-year college 1933: Palm Beach Junior College founded as first public college 1939: Legislature passes law allowing counties to petition for the establishment of public colleges 1947 "Junior colleges" detailed in report to legislature 1947–1948
Gibbs Junior College was created in 1957 by the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction to serve African-American students in St. Petersburg, Florida.It was the first and most successful of Florida's eleven new African-American junior colleges, founded in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the racial integration mandated by the unanimous 1954 Supreme Court Brown v.