Whereas the Alamo Colleges District is comprised of a family of five colleges and eight regional and neighborhood training centers across the greater Bexar County region; Whereas the Alamo Colleges District is celebrating 75 years of providing excellence in education to hundreds of thousands of community residents; Whereas the rich history of achievement and growth for the Alamo Colleges District began with the founding of St. Philip’s College as a sewing school for daughters and granddaughters of emancipated slaves in 1898, followed by becoming a formal junior college in 1927 as the only college open to San Antonio’s Black residents; Whereas, in 1925, San Antonio College was founded as University Junior College under the University of Texas at Austin; Whereas, in 1945, St. Philip’s College and San Antonio College formed the San Antonio Union Junior College District (SAUJCD) becoming the first public, State-supported institutions of higher education in the region, offering an alternative to private universities, especially for the underserved populations in the region; Whereas, after the end of legalized segregation in 1955, San Antonio College and St. Philip’s College each admitted Black and White students; Whereas, in 1982, the SAUJCD changed its name to the Alamo Community College District; Whereas Palo Alto College was chartered in 1983 and began classes in 1985; Whereas Northwest Vista College was formed and began classes in 1995 with the opening of its first building in 1998; Whereas tracing its history back to 1996 when classes were offered as part of the Northeast Learning Center, Northeast Lakeview College was officially established in 2007 and opened its permanent campus on Kitty Hawk in 2008; Whereas the Alamo Colleges District holds the distinction of having four of our colleges designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) and one college, St. Philip’s College, serving as both an HSI and Historically Black College and University (HBCU)—the only one in the United States with this designation