Alvin Community College

Alvin Community College was established in 1948 as Alvin Junior College. The college and the Alvin Independent School District had the same boundaries. The system's 6-4-4 plan, which provided six grades in elementary school, four grades in junior high, and four grades in high school and college, was the first such plan in Texas. The registrar was elected president of the Texas Junior College Teachers Association in 1950, and in 1951 AJC was chosen to participate in a Kellogg Foundation cooperative program. In 1959 the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools granted AJC full membership. Two years before court-ordered integration, the college provided adult education for Blacks.

With the implementation of additional programs in 1965, expansion was necessary. In 1966 the college moved to its new million-dollar plant on its sixty-acre campus, and the first Texas prison extension program began at the Ramsey Unit in Rosharon with AJC faculty teaching sixty inmates on Saturdays. By 1983 the college's inmate enrollment was more than 1,000.