Houston Community College System

Houston Community College System
The Houston Community College System administration in Midtown Houston
Established	1971
Type	community college system
Chancellor	Dr. Mary S. Spangler
Academic staff	2,513
Admin. staff	954
Students	57,364
Location	Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Campus	six commuter campuses
Nickname	HCCS (or HCC)
Mascot	Eagle
Affiliations	SACS
Website	www.hccs.edu

Houston Community College System (HCCS) is a community college system that operates community colleges in Houston, Missouri City, and Stafford in Texas.

As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of HCCS includes territory within the following school districts:

• the Houston Independent School District,
• the Stafford Municipal School District,
• the Spring Branch Independent School District (*),
• the Alief Independent School District,
• the North Forest Independent School District,
• the portion of the Fort Bend Independent School District located within the territory of Missouri City.

(*)district included in service area by state law, but is not part of the tax base.

History

HCCS is the second attempt of the Houston Independent School District to create a community college. In 1927, the district founded its first community colleges, Houston Junior College (for whites), which later evolved into the University of Houston and the Houston College for Negroes (now Texas Southern University). In 1971, the district founded HCCS after HJC's and HCN's evolutions into the University of Houston and Texas Southern University respectively. In its early days, HCCS once used HISD school campuses for teaching facilities with classes during evenings and weekends like its ancestors. Around 1997 HCCS began to transfer operations to community college district-operated campuses throughout the HCCS service area.

HCCS cities

Houston Community College System Administration Building

HCCS includes all of the following cities

• Bunker Hill Village
• Hedwig Village
• Hilshire Village
• Hunters Creek Village
• Katy
• Missouri City
• Piney Point Village
• Spring Valley Village
• Stafford

HCCS includes portions of the following cities

• Houston (most of Houston is in HCCS)
• Jacinto City (half of Jacinto City is in HCCS)
• Pearland (portions in Houston ISD)

The district also covers unincorporated areas of Harris (including some of Bridgeland), Fort Bend, and Waller Counties.

HCC Television

HCCS Central Campus (Midtown)

HCCS operates a television channel called Houston Community College Television (HCCTV). The channel is aired on Comcast Channel 19, TV Max Channel 97, Phonoscope Channel 77 and Cebridge Channel 20. In addition it is streamed over the internet. The studio complex, which has one large studio unit, five edit suites, and a digital master control system, is located at the HCC headquarters.

HCC began its television channel in 1994.

HCC Athletics

HCC offers several sports activities to its students throughout its campuses, the sports offered includes:

• Soccer (Men & Women)
• Basketball (Men & Women)
• Volleyball (Women)
• Flag Football (Men)
• Team Handball (Men & Women) (HCC Team Handball Website)
• Golf (Men & Women)
• Tennis (Men & Women)
• Fitness (Men & Women)

List of colleges in HCCS

Central College

Willie Lee Gay Hall (South Campus)

• Central Campus (Houston)
  • HCC Central Campus in Midtown Houston is served by a METRORail station, Ensemble/HCC Station. Houston Academy for International Studies of Houston ISD opened on HCC's Central Campus in Fall 2006.
• Willie Lee Gay Hall (South Campus) (Houston)

Coleman College of Health Sciences

• Coleman College of Health Sciences (Houston) (located in the Texas Medical Center district)

Northeast College

Northline Campus (Northside)

• Codwell Hall Campus (Houston)
• Northline Campus (Houston)
  • The HCC Northline Campus is the site of HISD's North Houston Early College High School.
• Pinemont Campus (Houston)

Northwest College

Houston Community College Spring Branch (Memorial City, near Spring Branch)

• Katy Campus (unincorporated Harris County)
• Spring Branch Campus (formerly Town & Country Square Campus) (Houston)

Southeast College

• Eastside Campus (Houston)
  • The HCC Southeast Center is the site of HISD's East Early College High School.

Southwest College

West Loop Center (contains Challenge Early College High School)

Gulfton Center (Gulfton)

• Alief Campus (Houston)
  • The Alief Campus will be the site of Alief ISD's Alief Early College High School.
• Alief Continuing Education Center (unincorporated Harris County)
• Gulfton Center (Houston)
• Missouri City Sienna Campus (unincorporated Fort Bend County)
• Stafford Campus (Stafford)
• West Loop Center (Houston)
  • The HCC West Loop Center is the site of HISD's Challenge Early College High School.

External links

• HCCS Homepage
• HCCS Libraries
• "TSPR Houston Community College System" - Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts