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...

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...