San Antonio College started in 1925 as a University of Texas-run junior college in a downtown building and settled on San Pedro Avenue in 1951. It grew into one of the largest community colleges in Texas and in 2021 won the Aspen Prize as the nation's top community college. This walk begins at the historic springs next door, where people have gathered for thousands of years, crosses the campus from its first 1950s hall to its space center and sustainability hub, and ends at a brewing magnate's mansion that served the college as a fine arts house for decades.
About this site
San Antonio College is a public college or university in San Antonio, Bexar County. It is one of 17 degree-granting colleges and universities TexasRoam maps in Bexar County.
The site sits at 29.4464, -98.4995 near San Antonio. The nearest cataloged historic site is Old San Pedro Springs (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Committee on Public Safety, Clegg, L.B., and Otto Koehler House.
San Antonio College got its start on September 21, 1925, when the University of Texas opened University Junior College in San Antonio with 200 students. That December the Texas attorney general ruled that UT had no constitutional authority to run a junior college, so the city's Board of Education took it over and renamed it San Antonio Junior College, moving it to South Alamo Street in 1926. The school adopted the San Antonio College name in 1948, relocated in 1951 to its present campus off San Pedro Avenue just north of downtown, and received Southern Association accreditation in 1955. In 2021 the Aspen Institute awarded it the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the first time the prize had gone to a Texas community college. The campus is home to the Scobee Education Center, with its planetarium, and the Koehler Cultural Center, a Victorian house built in 1901.
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