Del Mar College

Del Mar College, originally named Corpus Christi Junior College, was established in 1935 under control of the board of trustees of the Corpus Christi Independent School District, although the junior college district and the CCISD taxes were collected separately. The superintendent of the school district, E. H. Hereford, also served as president of the junior college. The school's name was changed in 1948 to Del Mar College, and in 1951 the college became an independent political subdivision, legally the Corpus Christi Junior College District, governed by a locally elected board of regents. In 1946 Del Mar College won accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

In 1936 the institution had 154 students who attended evening classes at Roy Miller High School. A faculty of ten, four of whom had doctoral degrees, offered courses in business administration, education, English, foreign languages, mathematics, natural sciences, history, and government. In February 1942 the college moved to its East Campus on Baldwin Avenue, and a West Campus was opened in 1957 when additional land was acquired on Old Brownsville Road. Separate classes for black students were begun in 1948 on the campus of Solomon Coles High School and continued until the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, when the East Campus was integrated.