Accomplishments of Collin College

On January 22, college leaders signed a pre-admission agreement between Collin College and Austin College. Pictured are (from left) Collin College president Cary Israel, Collin College chair J. Robert Collins, Collin College vice chair Brenda Goodell, Austin College president Oscar C. Page and Austin College vice chair Richard J. Agnich. ... [MORE]

Dr. Karr accepted the highly-coveted U.S. Professor of the Year award Nov. 15, 2007 at a Washington D.C. ceremony sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
"Our council has shown year after year that it is one of the best in the state and nation, and for that we applaud their hard work and leadership." The college’s council took home the 2007 Young Adult Council of the Year and sponsor Lupita Tinnen was named the Advisor of the Year at state competition in El Paso, May 24-27. The council and Tinnen will compete at the LULAC National Convention July 9-14 in Chicago. This is the second year in a row that the Collin College LULAC council has won these two honors.

Collin College officials welcome Texas Tech University as the sixth university partner to join the admissions agreement program. Seated in the front row: (from left) Chairman Sam Roach, Collin College Board of Trustees, President Jon Whitmore, Texas Tech University and President Cary Israel, Collin College. Back row: (from left) Collin College Board of Trustees Dr. Bob Collins, Tino Trujillo, Brenda Willard Goodell, Mac Hendricks, Cindy Bauge, Dr. David Hammel and Stacy Arias. (Photo Nick Young/Collin College)

Shirley C. Allen of Allen (left) and Yanina Kohut of Plano (right) were named to the 2005-06 All-Texas Academic Team of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for community college students. (Photos by Nick Young/Collin College)

(From left) Collin College President Cary A. Israel, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, All-USA Academic Team winner and Collin College graduate Adele Bailey and former Collin College Board Chair Sam Roach
  • Collin College and Austin College established a special pre-admission agreement. Through the partnership, qualified Collin College students will be provided advising from Austin College and other perks to complete a bachelor's degree at the institution. As part of the program, Collin College students must meet with an Austin College advisor to discuss the student's classes to ensure seamless transferability. Collin College now holds agreements with nine universities including Baylor University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Texas Tech University, Texas Woman’s University, the University of North Texas and The University of Texas at Dallas.

  • Dr. Rosemary Karr accepted the highly-coveted U.S. Professor of the Year award Nov. 15, 2007 at a Washington D.C. ceremony sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Her award is considered the pinnacle of collegiate teaching, and she competed against professors from community colleges across the nation to earn it. Dr. Karr has been on faculty at Collin College for 17 years.

  • Collin College President Cary Israel’s vision and leadership have catapulted Collin College to national recognition. Dr. Israel was recognized with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Award for the Western Region by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT). Dr. Israel was one of five regional winners for ACCT, a national organization of the governing boards of community colleges. From among the regional winners, a national CEO Award winner will be selected and announced at the Community College Leadership Congress in San Diego on Sept. 28, 2007. This is his second recognition by that organization. He received the CEO Award for the Northeast Region in 1996.

  • Collin College’s Young Adult Council of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was named the National Council of the Year at the annual national convention in Chicago in July. This is the second year in a row that the Collin College LULAC council has won this honor and the third since 2003. Additionally, Lupita Tinnen, professor of photography, was named the LULAC Young Adult Advisor of the Year at the national competition. This is the third straight year that a Collin College LULAC advisor has won this honor and the fourth since 2003. The Collin College LULAC has witnessed success before sweeping the 2003 and 2006 national LULAC awards. Both the Young Adult Council and Tinnen were given the same awards at the regional and state competitions earlier in the year.

  • Collin College's League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) continued its success in state competition. The college's council took home the 2007 Young Adult Council of the Year and sponsor Lupita Tinnen was named the Advisor of the Year at state competition in El Paso, May 24-27. The council and Tinnen will compete at the LULAC National Convention July 9-14 in Chicago. This is the second year in a row that the Collin College LULAC council has won these two honors. "Our LULAC council is a shining example of what civically-engaged students can accomplish," Cary A. Israel, college president, said. "Our council has shown year after year that it is one of the best in the state and nation, and for that we applaud their hard work and leadership."

  • Officials from Collin College and Baylor University signed an agreement streamlining the process for qualified Collin College students to complete a bachelor's degree at Baylor University. The program is called the "Baylor Bound" Transfer Program Agreement. This partnership abbreviates the admission process for Collin College students who plan to transfer to Baylor University by identifying those students early and guiding them through the transfer process.

  • Collin College recently named two faculty members to the new endowed chairs of Scholarly and Civic Engagement and Nursing. - Dr. Lisa Roy-Davis, professor of English, was named to the Lebrecht Chair of Scholarly and Civic Engagement, and Dr. Joyce Swegle, professor of nursing, was named to the Dickinson Endowed Chair in Nursing during a Nov. 28 reception.

  • Collin College and Texas A&M University (TAMU) signed a new admission agreement. Nicknamed “Aggie Bound,” the agreement abbreviates the admission process for Collin College students who plan to complete specific bachelor’s degrees in College Station. This new arrangement enables Collin College students interested in certain majors to be considered for guaranteed admission.

  • Collin College has been recognized by the Case Foundation as one of 16 institutions across the country to watch for civic endeavors. The Case Foundation is an organization dedicated to finding lasting solutions to complex social problems, including expanding civic engagement and volunteerism. The foundation identified 16 organizations in education, faith and corporate service that produce innovative projects within their field. Only six colleges and universities across the United States were selected.

  • The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named Collin College Professor Jennifer O'Loughlin-Brooks the Texas Professor of the Year. Her honor is the second Professor of the Year accolade won by a Collin College instructor. Theatre professor Brad Baker was named U.S. Professor of the Year in 2000. This puts Collin College in company with Rice and the University of Texas at Austin as Texas institutions with multiple winners.

  • Collin College took home a national honor for its dedication toward community service - Collin College was one of a number of colleges and universities from around the nation named to the first ever President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The initiative is a response to U.S. President George W. Bush’s call to service by supporting the nation’s college and university mission to civic engagement and service learning.

  • Collin College and Texas Tech Sign Agreement Allowing Consecutive Admission to Both Institutions - Officials from Collin College and Texas Tech University (Texas Tech) signed a consecutive admission agreement giving qualified students a guarantee of admission to Texas Tech. The program will be called “Red Raider Bound.”
  • Collin College's Special University Partnership program was the first in Texas to allow enrollment at a community college and select universities (Texas Woman's University, Southern Methodist University, The University of Texas-Dallas, University of North Texas, Texas Tech University, Texas A&M University and Texas A&M-Commerce).

  • Collin College students Named To All-Texas Academic Team - Two students from Collin College were named to the 2005-06 All-Texas Academic Team of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for community college students.

  • Dickinson endowment - On Jan. 24, 2006, Collin College announced a major gift from local philanthropist Richard R. Dickinson and his wife Barbara, of McKinney, to establish a $400,000 endowed faculty chair in the department of nursing.

  • Collin College graduate Adele Bailey was named to the first team of the All-USA Academic Team by Phi Theta Kappa, the American Association of Community Colleges and USA Today. In the last five years, three Collin College students have been named to the All-USA Academic Team.

  • Collin College's Alternative Teacher Certification Program was one of only 10 in the nation to receive a Teaching By Choice Award from the American Association of Community Colleges. Collin College's Alternative Teacher Certification Program was the first of its kind at a community college in the nation.

  • Four workforce education programs at Collin College were designated as exemplary by the State of Texas -- nursing, dental hygiene, real estate, child development. The Student Development Division has also received prior commendation as exemplary.

  • Collin College was awarded a national Bellwether Award for its leading-edge Service Learning and Learning Communities programs.

  • Collin College's faculty include a Texas Professor of the Year and a U.S. Professor of the Year, awards presented by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), and four Minnie Stevens Piper Professors, one of Texas' highest honors bestowed upon college and university professors. Also among the faculty is an honoree of the Teaching Excellence Award, presented by the Texas Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges. In addition, a Collin College Professor was chosen to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge in England.

  • Collin Dance Ensemble is a five time winner of the national Gala Awards.

  • Theatre Program consistently ranked among top five in the nation.

  • Collin College's theatre production of "The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show" was named among the top 10 theatre productions of 2006 in the Dallas Voice and Dallas Observer.

  • Texas Instruments has created a $1 million endowment for Collin College student SMART scholarships.

  • The estate of Royden Lebrecht made an unrestricted $1 million gift to the college, which created a scholarship fund and the college's first endowed chair-the Royden L. Lebrecht Chair for the Center for Scholarly and Civic Engagement.

  • The late Peter Jennings of ABC’s World News Tonight moderated a town hall meeting between Collin College students and a panel of local journalists. The program, “Media Matters with Peter Jennings” focused on a dialog on college students' views of the media. Collin College students posed thought-provoking questions to the panelists and Mr. Jennings. Made possible by ABC and WFAA Channel 8, the production was taped and was broadcast on Channel 8 on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003.

  • In 2003, Collin College's Hispanic student organization, LULAC Young Adult Council, swept nationals, bringing home three of four awards given to Young Adult Councils at the yearly national convention in Florida, the founding state of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). That year, LULAC Young Adult Council president, Robert Villareal received the Man of the Year award; LULAC Young Adult Council secretary, Stefanie Rodriguez, received the Woman of the Year award; and the college's LULAC Young Adult Council advisor received the Advisor of the Year award. In 2006, the chapter's advisor earned this honor for the second time in four years.

  • Collin College officially opened the doors to the Convergence Lab, located at the Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco. The first of its kind at a Texas college or university, this lab is available to college engineering and technology students as well as to North Texas businesses.

  • Collin College was a founding member of the Texas Campus Compact and was named Regional Site for the Texas Campus Compact.

  • Collin College was chosen as the first and currently the only Regional Cisco Academy for Security and Wireless in the state of Texas. The Academy provides instructor training for Texas instructors in the Fundamentals of Network Security and the Fundamentals of Wireless LANs.

  • The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) officially kicked off a $759,663 workforce development grant between Collin College and a 15-member consortium of businesses at a special ceremony at the college's Courtyard Center for Economic Development.

  • Collin College received the coveted Best of the Web award from the Center for Digital Government for its downloadable catalog/schedule system. Honored as the best in the nation for higher education, this system helps students build their credit course schedules or view the current catalog electronically.

  • Bond Rating: Standard & Poor's and Moody's gave the college the highest credit rating available to a municipality--AAA/aaa bond rating. Only 15 have this rating in Texas.

  • Service-Learning Program received the national Collaboration Award from the Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges for its partnerships with business and industry.

  • The Collin College Business Office received the Certificate of Distinction from the Government Treasurer's Organization of Texas for its success in developing a comprehensive written Investment Policy and Strategy for the district. The Certificate recognizes outstanding examples of written investment policies. El Paso Community College is the only other community college in the state to receive this award.

  • Cisco designated Collin College as one of only six colleges to become a Cisco Certified Training Center in the United States, serving the eight-state Southwest region.

  • New Media magazine lists Applied Graphic Design Technology (AGDT) program in “Best Bets.”

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