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Coastal Bend Community College (CBC) is a federally designated Hispanic-serving institution with four campuses in the nine rural counties in South Texas. The primary campus is located in Beeville, TX. The college's enrollment is 58 percent Hispanic, 36 percent White and 5 percent African American.

CBC strives to engage its 3,657 students in the learning process; to create substantive changes that make individual learners more knowledgeable, self-determined, strategic and empathetic. Its challenges are significant given that many students are first-generation college-goers, and most enter with inadequate academic preparation and weak study skills.

While working with "Achieving the Dream" CBC hopes to improve students' performance in math courses and enhancing the college's institutional research. It intends to emphasize collaborative learning in math by revising its curriculum to utilize paired classes, supplemental instruction, and computer-assisted labs. Students will also receive more instruction in study skills and time management.

CBC is also working on developing its art department (which is partially funded through a grant from the Barnhart Foundation of Houston). The department offers annual China-painting, sculpture, nature photography that features one of only two glass-blowing labs in university art departments in the state of Texas. The art department's activities blend with those of the town's art gallery and museum housed in a historic structure and named in honor of a former CBC art instructor.

Coastal Bend College main campus is located in Beeville, Texas, with branch campuses located in Alice, Kingsville, and Pleasanton, Texas. Branch campuses are 60 to 70 miles from the main campus.