Brookhaven College

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Brookhaven College


Motto:	Dream it; achieve it!
Established:	1978
Type:	Community College
President:	Sharon Blackman, Ed. D.
Faculty:	121 Full-time, 591 Adjunct
Students:	10,720 as of Spring 2005
Location:	Farmers Branch, Texas, USA
Campus:	Suburban, 200 acres (0.8 km²)
Athletics:	5 Division III teams
Colors:	Light Green and Forest Green
Mascot:	Bears
Website:	www.brookhavencollege.edu

Brookhaven College is a community college of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD), located in Farmers Branch, Texas (USA).

The college opened in 1978 as the seventh college in the DCCCD and serves, on average, 9,000-10,000 students each semester, and an additional 8,000 in the school's continuing education program. It is known as "Brookharvard" or "B-Harvard" to its students, a play on the name of the Ivy League university.

Brookhaven offers associate's degrees in arts and sciences, applied science, arts and sciences for business majors, and nursing. As of the Fall, 2006, semester, the school added the Early College High School program, which admits a limited number of ninth-grade students to an on-site high school program that allows them to begin their college studies during their eleventh-grade year and achieve an associate's degree along with their high school diplomas.^[1] This program is in addition to the existing dual-credit program that allows select secondary-school students to enroll in college courses at no cost while continuing at their original high-school campuses.

1 Campus
2 Special programs
3 Tuition
4 Notable people
- 4.1 Alumni
- 4.2 Faculty & Administration
5 External links
6 Sources

[edit] Campus

Brookhaven College currently has a total of 467,000 square feet (43,400 m²) of building space divided among 17 buildings. These buildings include the 20,000-square-foot (2,000 m²) Ellison Miles 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.

[edit] Special programs

Programs of study added in recent years include associate's degree programs in Mexican-American Studies (Fall, 2006) and geographic information systems (Fall, 2005).

[edit] Tuition

As of the October 2006 semester, Dallas County residents pay $39 per credit hour, or $117 for a three-hour class. Out-of-county residents pay $72 per credit hour. Out of state and international students are charged $200 per credit hour.

Tuition Waiver for Senior Adults

Senior adults, those 65 and older, who live or own property in Dallas Country, can enroll in up to 6 hours of credit courses each semester or summer session at no cost, based on availability.