Brookhaven College
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| Motto | Dedicated to student success. |
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| Type | Community College |
| Established | 1978 |
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Parent institution
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Dallas County Community College District |
| Chancellor | Dr. Joe D. May |
| President | Thom D. Chesney, Ph.D. |
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Academic staff
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135 Full-time, 400 Adjunct |
| Students | 11,000 as of Spring 2014 |
| Location | Farmers Branch, Texas, USA |
| Campus | Suburban, 192 acres (0.8 km2) |
| Athletics | 4 NJCAA Division III teams |
| Colors | Light Green and Forest Green |
| Mascot | Bears |
| Affiliations | Dallas County Community College District |
| Website | www.BrookhavenCollege.edu |
Brookhaven College (often referred to as Brookhaven, BHC, or recently BC) is a community college located in Farmers Branch, Texas (USA). Brookhaven is one of seven independently accredited colleges of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD). Brookhaven opened in 1978, making it the newest college in DCCCD (excluding satellite campuses of the other DCCCD colleges).
Serving northwest Dallas County, Brookhaven College provides freshman- and sophomore-level academic credit courses, which may be applied toward an associate degree or transferred to a four-year college or university. The Core Curriculum is guaranteed to transfer to public universities in Texas. Career and technical education programs help prepare students for immediate entrance into the workforce. Along with traditional transfer class offerings, Brookhaven College’s technical program offerings include accounting, automotive technology, business administration, child development, computer information systems, e-commerce, emergency medical services, geospatial technology, international business and trade, management, marketing, nursing, office technology, paramedicine, radiologic technology and visual communications.
Continuing education classes offer personal or professional development in a variety of subjects including art, business, computers, health care careers, education, English for Speakers of Other Languages, music, nonprofit management, real estate and more. Corporate training also is available.
Brookhaven College's 192-acre (0.78 km2) campus currently has a total of 467,000 square feet (43,400 m2) of building space divided among 18 buildings. These buildings include the 20,000-square-foot (2,000 m2) Brookhaven College Geotechnology Institute, one of three similar facilities nationwide to offer continuing professional development to professionals in the oil and gas industries, and the Brookhaven College School of the Arts (BCSA) expanded facility, with a 2,400-square-foot (220 m2) gallery, a renovated ceramics/kiln yard, Macintosh computer lab and a 680-seat performance hall.
Programs of study added in recent years include associate degree programs in Mexican-American Studies (Fall, 2006), geographic information systems (Fall, 2005) and Criminal Justice (Fall, 2009).
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