San Jacinto College

San Jacinto College offers a variety of leisure learning courses to help you expand your horizons and have fun! You can enjoy our short courses year-round, along with flexible schedules and easy registration Spring 2022 Arts and crafts Cake decorating Dance Fitness/wellness Financial management Painting/drawing Photography For more information and a complete list of...

A grand entrance: College opens fifth campus In October, San Jacinto College held a ribbon cutting for its fifth and northernmost campus, Generation Park. Faculty, administrators, trustees, community members, and other supporters gathered at the 55,000-square-foot facility that opened to students in fall 2020 on the 57-acre campus. The College also celebrated five other new facilities this...

It’s hard to believe that San Jacinto College has been serving the East Harris County area for 60 years. In that time, the Berlin wall was erected and toppled, John F. Kennedy and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were both assassinated, and the internet, Amazon, and Google were all born. Not to mention this last year in which we navigated a global pandemic. Through everything that happens, San...

“That’s it!” Marie Flickinger didn’t say those words, but she thought them as she huffed out of the Friendswood newspaper office. Her editor had nitpicked her Little League photos for the umpteenth time. That day in 1975, she decided to prove him wrong. And prove him wrong she did. One year later, Flickinger founded the South Belt-Ellington Leader paper. From covering the San...

For Joseph Zwiercan, being the department chair for petrochemical/energy at the LyondellBasell Center for Petrochemical, Energy, & Technology is more than just a job. It is a calling. After several years working as a shield metal arc welder and holding other oil and gas jobs, Zwiercan could advance only so far before his lack of training and degree stopped him.  Determined to make the...

SEPT. 18, 1961 A week after Hurricane Carla’s landfall, San Jacinto College opened in a leased building in downtown Pasadena. Enrollment reached 876 — a record for Texas junior colleges. OCT. 20, 1961 The College’s student newspaper, The Texian, became the state’s first junior college biweekly paper. JAN. 29, 1963 The College launched its nursing program with 32 students. DECEMBER...

Stumbling across history was the last thing Ross Kelsey expected while tidying his supervisor’s office. Kelsey, who is now San Jacinto College’s director of evening/weekend college and campus services, discovered a “gold mine” of documents and DVDs. In 2011, students, faculty, and staff had begun interviewing local veterans and recording their oral histories as a service-learning...

Jan. 18 Spring classes begin All campuses and online Jan. 22-29 Artists for Hope Charity Dance Contest South Campus, Fine Arts Building Purchase tickets at https://sanjacdance.ticketleap.com/ Feb. 11 Women in Maritime Operations Maritime Campus March 11-13 Ain’t Misbehavin South Campus, Fine Arts Building March 14-20 Spring Break – College closed All campuses and online March...