Galveston College
After obtaining an opinion from the Texas Attorney General that the district—though never funded—was legally still intact, in 1966 the citizens finally passed a vote for a tax rate to support the new institution.A second campus was again established in 2013 when the Charlie Thomas Family Applied Technology Center was opened to house welding, electronics, HVAC, cosmetology, medical coding, and certified nursing assistant programs.In the late 1990s interest was shown in creating an endowment that would encourage high school graduates in the community to attend college.As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of Galveston College is the following:[3] The college serves an ethnically diverse population of approximately 2,400 students each semester in credit programs and nearly 8,000 individuals annually in continuing education and workforce development programs.It has also partnered with the Galveston-based University of Texas Medical Branch in creating specialized certificate programs and education tracks.
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