College of the Mainland
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College of the Mainland (COM) is a community college located in Texas City, Texas. Its name comes from its location on the "mainland" portion of Galveston County, Texas (that portion north of Galveston Island).
COM is led by a seven-member board of trustees, elected by the citizens of the COM district.
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In October 1966, the citizens residing in the boundaries of the Dickinson, Hitchcock, La Marque, Santa Fe, and Texas City Independent School Districts voted to create a community college district, and two months later voted to pass a bond package and assess themselves a property tax in support of the district.
The first class of 414 students enrolled in September 1967. COM met in temporary facilities until the first phase of construction on its current 120 acre campus at the corner of Palmer Highway and Amburn Road in Texas City was completed.
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[edit] Trivia
- The creation of COM led the citizens of Galveston Island to revive a community college district it had created in 1935, but never funded, leading to the creation of Galveston College serving the citizens of the Island.
- The COM website features a unique section titled Calm Waters, solely devoted to the purpose of allowing COM students (anonymously if they choose) to determine whether a rumor circulating around campus is true or false. Interesting rumors submitted to Calm Waters include whether a deceased man was found in one of the parking lots (false), whether COM was getting rid of ducks on the campus (false, COM does not own the ducks, the ducks have adopted COM as their new habitat), and whether COM was going to on-line physical education classes (true, but only class assignments and lectures would be on-line, the students would still have to complete three workouts per week in the gym).
