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Navarro College is a public college or university in Corsicana, Navarro County.
The site sits at 32.0761, -96.4987 near Corsicana. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Pearce Museum (museum), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include 15th Texas Infantry Companies E and G, Navarro Rifles, and Corsicana State Home.
Navarro County voters approved a junior college and a tax to support it in a July 1946 election, and Navarro Junior College opened that September with 238 students, most of them World War II veterans using the GI Bill, under first president Ray L. Waller. Classes first met at the former Air Activities of Texas flight school six miles south of Corsicana, and in 1951 the college moved to a 64-acre tract on State Highway 31 west of town. It won regional accreditation in 1954, dropped "Junior" from its name in 1974 as it broadened into a comprehensive community college, and opened permanent centers across its service area, today including campuses in Mexia, Midlothian and Waxahachie. The Cook Education Center, with its 60-foot-dome planetarium and the Pearce Collections Museum, is a regional draw, and the college's national-champion cheer program under coach Monica Aldama reached a worldwide audience through the 2020 Netflix docuseries "Cheer."
Sources: tshaonline.orgen.wikipedia.org
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