History
Southwestern Junior College
September, nineteen forty-four...Waxahachie, Texas...on the campus of Southwestern Bible Institution...the first Liberal Arts Junior College of the Assemblies of God was established...First year...Dean E. Moore heads the new department with an enrollment of less than twenty students...faculty, limited...
Dean E.W. Moore
Spring, nineteen forty-six...acclaim graduates as first students ever to receive a degree in an Assembly of God Junior College...plans made for extension of department...faculty increased...study body grows.
Nineteen forty-nine...the Junior College receives accreditation by the Texas Association of Junior Colleges...credits recognized by Senior Liberal Arts Colleges...
Dean E.W. Patterson
Nineteen fifty...First semester...this department has enrollment over two hundred...students arrive from all over the United States...several foreign countries are represented...the Junior College has gained national recognition...international interest ...Dean E.W. Patterson smiles with approval at the rapid strides made in the Liberal Arts dimension of Southwestern Bible Institute...