page_title: San Antonio College
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: San Antonio College / History
caption_attribution_description: San Antonio College (SAC), Texas.
context_page_description: San Antonio College is a public community college in San Antonio, Texas. It is part of the Alamo Colleges District and the oldest public two-year college in Texas. The college has an average semester enrollment of 22,028 credit students and an average annual enrollment of 16,000 other-than-credit students. San Antonio College is the largest single-campus community college in Texas and one of the largest in the United States.
  The college's 37-acre campus includes the Scobee Education Center, a student center with food court, a fine arts center, a business building, a visual arts and technology center, the Chance Academic building, a nursing center, the Nail Computer Technology building, the Candler Physical Education Center that includes two courts, a regulation indoor swimming pool, racquetball courts, a dance studio, and tennis courts; McCreless Hall, Gonzales Hall, the Koehler Cultural Center, the president's home, a chemistry-geology building, the Longwith Radio, Television, and Film building, a library, and the Campus Police.
context_section_description: On September 21, 1925, SAC was first established as University Junior College under the administration of the University of Texas, with an enrollment of 200 students. However, the attorney general for Texas ruled (December 30, 1925) that the University of Texas was in violation of the state's constitution by operating a junior college. Therefore, the college was passed to the San Antonio Board of Education and renamed San Antonio Junior College. In September 1926, the college relocated to 419 South Alamo Street. In August 1946, San Antonio Junior College was renamed again after control of the school passed from the board of trustees. San Antonio College was adopted as the official name in 1948, and in 1951, SAC was moved to its present location on San Pedro Avenue. In 2016, the college changed the address from San Pedro Avenue to North Main Avenue another street on campus. Accreditation was granted to the college in 1955 from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
  San Antonio College is also approved and accredited by the Board of Nurse Examiners for the state of Texas, the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities, the Texas Educational Theater Association, the Texas Association of Music Schools, the National League for Nursing, the American Board of Funeral Service Education, the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, the Southern Association of Junior Colleges, the Commission of Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association, the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, and the Texas Public Community and Junior College Association.
caption: Koehler Cultural Center
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