Temple College is a public

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Temple, Texas Temple is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. As of 2020, the city has a population of 82,073 according to the U.S. census, and is one of the two principal cities in Bell County. Located near the county seat of Belton, Temple lies in t ...

, with regional branch campuses at other locations in

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History

Temple Junior College was founded in 1926 to serve post-secondary students in eastern

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. Classes were originally held in the basement of the Temple High School until 1957, when the campus moved to its present location on the city's south side.

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at the college ended that same year. A separate junior college district was created in 1955 and in 1959 it acquired its own board of regents. The name of the college was changed to Temple College in 1996. The main campus in Temple covers about 108 acres with twenty-seven buildings. Temple College has several branch campuses: * East Williamson County Higher Education–Taylor (

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) * East Williamson County Higher Education–Hutto (

Hutto, Texas Hutto is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area. The population was 27,577 at the 2020 census. Geography Hutto is located at (30.544517, −97.545198), about seven miles (11&nb ...

) * Texas Bioscience Institute (

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, Temple) As of Fall 2016, residents within the tax-district of the cities of Temple and Hutto pay $89 per

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, whereas those outside the district pay $159 per credit hour.

Gallery

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Notable people

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's dispatch "The Death of Captain Waskow" *

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of Temple Junior College during the 1940s, became in 1947 the founding president of

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in Laredo. *

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, alumnus, retired

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and CBA

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and current television color analyst for the

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(William Hurley), alumnus, co-founder of

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, an

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advocate, and systems theorist *

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, alumnus,

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for the

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Athletics

* Baseball * Men's Basketball * Softball * Volleyball * Women's Basketball

References

External links

Official website
* {{authority control Temple, Texas Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Community colleges in Texas Education in Bell County, Texas Buildings and structures in Bell County, Texas NJCAA athletics