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Tarrant County College began on July 31, 1965 after voters approved a bond election for the formation of a junior college district. In 1967, the South Campus was the first campus to open in south Fort Worth; in 1967, the Northeast Campus was built in Hurst. A third campus, the Northwest Campus, was added in 1976, in northwest Fort Worth.
Hadley began teaching at Turner High School in Panola County. In 1968, she became a founding member of the faculty of the Northeast Campus of Tarrant County Junior College, later Tarrant County College (TCC). She was named interim chancellor of TCC in 2009 and became chancellor the following year. [2] [3]
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A century ago, the city was home to a university billed as the next Tuskegee Institute. But it ran out of money, and Fort Worth lost out on the growth and success of a HBCU.
HEB ISD was the first district in Tarrant County to offer the program [39] and is the only multi-high school district in Texas where all high schools have an IB program. [40] In 2012, students in HEB ISD had a passing rate of 83% on IB exams, higher than the US national passing rate (66.9%) and the global passing rate (78.4%).
This project and the release of Alex Haley's Roots inspired Rolla to form the Tarrant County Black Historical and Genealogical Society, which formed in 1977 with 21 charter members led by Rolla. Their first meeting was held at Tarrant County Junior College. [11] The collection was originally stored in the Rolla family's east Fort Worth home.
That same year, John I. Leonard, superintendent of Palm Beach County Schools, became the college’s first president, earning the nickname “Mr. Junior College" for his work over the years ...
In March 1917, it was organized as Grubbs Vocational College (GVC), a junior college that was a branch campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (AMC), which later became Texas A&M University. Open only to white students, the curriculum at GVC centered around the agricultural, industrial, and mechanical trades.