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Faulkner State Community College |
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www.faulkner.cc.al.us/ |
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Faulkner State Community College, a public two-year institution located in Baldwin County in southwest Alabama, has three campuses located in Bay Minette, Gulf Shores, and Fairhope. The Bay Minette campus is the administrative campus. The College which was one of the 13 original two-year colleges created by an act of the Alabama Legislature in 1963 is under the authority of the State Board of Education. Faulkner State is a member of the Alabama College System which is composed of the thirty-one public two year colleges and the one upper division college.
Faulkner State has undergone several transitions and name changes in its lifetime. For the first few months of operation, it was called Bay Minette State Junior College, but in early 1966, the State Board of Education named the College William Lowndes Yancey State Junior College in honor of a pre-Civil-War statesman and educator. In 1970 the name changed to James H. Faulkner State Junior College to honor Mr. James H. Faulkner, a prominent citizen of Baldwin County. The College name was changed again by the State Board of Education in August 1992 to Faulkner State Community College to more accurately reflect its mission and purpose.
The College has grown from an initial enrollment of 401 students and one campus in 1965 to a current combined enrollment of 4,000 students on all three campuses. Faulkner State began offering courses at Fairhope in 1970 and in 1975 the College added a permanent staff, student services and expanded offering of programs and services to the community. The Fairhope Campus has been housed both at the Fairhope High School and at the old Fairhope Library building. In 1987 the present Fairhope site was acquired. The Fairhope site, originally the home of the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, was entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of Interior on July 1, 1988. In 1985 the College opened a site in Foley and moved to the present Gulf Shores Campus location in Fall, 1993.
Faulkner State Community College was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1970, was reaccredited in 1975, 1985, 1995, and again in 2005.
Faulkner State Community College has an open-door admissions policy and is committed to the professional and cultural growth of each student without regard to race, color, gender, disability, religion, creed, national origin, or age. The College strives to provide an educational environment that promotes development and learning through a wide variety of educational programs and instructional strategies, adequate and comfortable facilities, a caring and well-qualified staff, flexible scheduling, and convenient locations. This effort is based upon the economic and social needs of the College service area.
Faulkner State Community College utilizes a participative management structure which insures broad-based involvement in the planning and evaluation process.
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