Blinn College

Blinn College
Motto	Proven.
Established	1883
Type	Junior college
President	Daniel Holt
Students	15,000
Location	Brenham, Texas, United States
Colors	Blue and white
Nickname	Buccaneers
Website	www.blinn.edu

Blinn College is a two-year academic institution based in Brenham, Texas with campuses in Brenham, Bryan, Schulenburg, and Sealy. While the Brenham campus is Blinn's main campus, more than 70% of students attend the Bryan campus.

Blinn boasts the highest transfer rate in the State of Texas sending students to leading institutions such as Texas A&M University. Blinn transfers more students to Texas A&M University than does any other two-year college. Blinn technical students score among the best in the state on board and licensure exams.^{[citation needed]}

Blinn offers co-enrollment and automatic transfer programs with Texas A&M and Sam Houston State University. The TEAM (Transfer Enrollment at Texas A&M) allows students to take 3–5 hours at A&M and the remaining hours at Blinn each semester with a guarantee of 70% pass rate and transfer after two years and a 3.0 GPA. Blinn and Texas A&M also have major-specific automatic transfer plans for students with as few as 24 hours at Blinn. Blinn also has a co-enrollment program with Sam Houston State.

The home campus in Brenham offers athletic programs. The Blinn Buccaneers play football, basketball, jai alai, baseball, softball and volleyball. The football program won NJCAA championships in 1995, 1996, 2006, and 2009. The volleyball team won the NJCAA championship in 2008. The softball team consistently makes the national tournament. Blinn also has award-winning cheerleading and dance teams.

History

Main Building, Blinn College
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	804 College Ave., Brenham, Texas
Coordinates:	30°9′34″N 96°24′18″W
Area:	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built:	1906
Architectural style:	Early Commercial, Mission/spanish Revival, Texas commercial
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	78002998
Added to NRHP:	December 6, 1978

The school was founded as Mission Institute in 1883 by the Southern German Conference of the Methodist denomination. It became coeducational in 1888 when it began admitting women. In 1889, the institute's name was changed to Blinn Memorial College in honor of the Reverend Christian Blinn of New York, who had donated a considerable sum of money to make the school possible. In 1927, the Board of Trustees, under leadership of President Philip Deschner, organized a junior college. In 1930, Blinn merged with Southwestern University of Georgetown, Texas. In 1934, a new charter was procured by the citizens of Brenham, and a private nonsectarian junior college was organized as Blinn College with nine regents as the board of control. In February 1937, all connections with Southwestern University and the Methodist denominations were severed.

An election held in Washington County on June 8, 1937, for the purposes of creating a public junior college district and for levying a small tax, was successful. Blinn thus became the first county-owned junior college district in Texas. The college continues to operate as one of the largest of 50 public community college districts in the Texas.

The Bryan campus was established in 1970, and by the mid-1990s a third campus was in College Station. In 1997, the Villa Maria Road campus opened consolidating the programs that were located in the Townshire Shopping Center in Bryan and the Woodstone Center in College Station. The third Brazos County site, located in the former Bryan post office, continues to house the dental hygiene, radiologic technology, and workforce education programs. The original three buildings on the Bryan campuses were expanded to six, and in 2002, the former Schulman Theater was purchased and converted to classroom space, known as the College Park Campus (CPC). The Schulenburg campus opened in 1997 and Sealy in 2005.

Blinn College offers academic transfer courses and these technical programs: Associate Degree and Vocational Nursing, Surgical Technology, EMS, Physical Therapy Assisting, Dental Hygiene, Radiologic Technology, Jai Alai, Fire Science, Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Development, Legal Assisting, Real Estate, Computer Information Technology, Information Management, and Business(General Business, Accounting, Business Administration and Management, Hospitality Management, Small Business Management). The college also offers noncredit, non-transferrable workforce education programs.

Notable alumni

• Chris Andersen, professional basketball player; currently of the Denver Nuggets
• Michael Bishop, professional football player; quarterback in the CFL, former Kansas State All-American
• Chris Johnson, football cornerback for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL
• Dan Kubiak (Class of 1959), State representative from Rockdale, 1969-1983 and 1991-1998
• Tim Montgomery, sprinter, Olympic Gold medal winner and former world record holder (1992–1994)
• Quincy Morgan, professional football player; wide receiver in the NFL, former Kansas State All-American
• Gus Franklin Mutscher, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1969–1971 and Washington County administrative judge, 1976–1990
• Cam Newton, 2010 Heisman Trophy winner after transfer, where he won the 2010 National Championship with the Auburn Tigers. Number 1 pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Carolina Panthers.
• Henry Thomas, actor; starred in E.T.; attended the College Station campus for one year
• Leon Toubin, member of Blinn College's board of trustees
• Rosa Levin Toubin, Jewish Texan historian, civic leader, philanthropist

External links

• Blinn College
• Blinn College Buccaneer Athletics