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ACC president addresses Pearland ISD trustees
Published June 5, 2009
Alvin Community College President Dr. Rodney Allbright addressed Pearland ISD trustees during a regular meeting May 26 regarding various partnerships, services and amenities available through the college.
“Alvin Community College’s partnership with the Pearland Independent School District is 37 years old, starting with community-based education programs,” Allbright said.
College credit programs first were offered at Pearland High School through a partnership in the 1980s, and the district offered ACC an opportunity to establish a campus through the purchase of C.J. Harris Elementary School for college-based classes in the late 1990s.
The presentation was made in response to an initiative led by the Northern Brazoria County Education Alliance to encourage Texas legislators to change state law to allow the San Jacinto College District to share a service area with ACC.
ACC’s service area boundaries were established by state legislators in 1995 to include the Pearland and Danbury ISDs. These service areas lay outside of the college’s taxing district.
According to the Texas Association of Community Colleges, service areas were created by the Texas Legislature 14 years ago to help reduce or eliminate the consequences of colleges trying to duplicate out of district territory.
In response to Allbright’s presentation, Pearland ISD Board President Glenn Garrison and Superintendent Bonny Cain expressed their appreciation and satisfaction with ACC’s efforts, but also said they wanted more options for the district’s students.
“We’re very pleased with that partnership (with ACC) … at the same time, we want to foster new partnerships,” Garrison said.
“The things the Northern Brazoria County Education Alliance has done has helped our students tremendously,” Cain said. “I think if we all work together, which I think we will, we’re going to make this work.”
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