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Lamar State College Port Arthur is a two-year institution located in Port Arthur, Texas. The school was founded in 1909 as Port Arthur College by John Warne Gates.Port Arthur College was a city-owned, nonprofit, vocational school specializing in business and electronics education, offering training in stenography, secretarial work, bookkeeping, accounting, and radio.
Sam Houston State opened The Woodlands University Center in 1998. The following year, the former Lamar campuses in Orange and Port Arthur were renamed Lamar State College Orange and Lamar State College Port Arthur. In 2003, the Legislature changed the name of Southwest Texas State to Texas State University-San Marcos.
The Lamar University System was a state university system established in 1983 with four existing institutions: the flagship Lamar University, and the member institutions Lamar State College–Port Arthur, Lamar State College–Orange (both two-year community colleges), and Lamar Institute of Technology. [1]
In 1975, the university merged with Port Arthur College in Port Arthur, Texas, creating Lamar University–Port Arthur. In 1983, state Senator Carl A. Parker sponsored a bill creating the Lamar University System. In 1986, Lamar University–Orange and Lamar University–Port Arthur were granted accreditation separate from the main campus.
In 1970, Lamar State College began offering its first doctoral program, the Doctor of Engineering, and in 1971 the college's name was officially changed to Lamar University. [citation needed] In 1975, the university merged with Port Arthur College in Port Arthur, Texas, creating Lamar University-Port Arthur.
In 1949, a passenger plane and a military craft collided near Washington DC, launching a grim recovery effort in the Potomac River.
A truck loaded with pickups drives to cross to the US next to the border wall at the Otay commercial crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on November 26, 2024. - Guillermo Arias ...
The List of Lamar University alumni includes notable former students of Lamar University. The term "Lamar Cardinal," which comes from Lamar's mascot "Big Red," a cardinal, refers to current and former students of Lamar University.