An increasingly active nightlife at Texarkana College is attributed to the evening school, under the direction of Mr. B. J. Murdock, Director of the Evening College Division and Vocational Education. This evening activity is soon expected to spread to off-campus, non-credit courses in the surrounding Texarkana area.
The Evening Division is designed primarily to assist those citizens in this area who desire additional education, but because of work, children, or other conflict cannot attend full time. However, some full-time students at the College do enroll for at least one night class.
From Monday through Thursday nights the night students enrolled at the college keep the administration and classroom buildings active with nine to eleven classes held each night this semester.
This fall there are four non-credit courses which have been suggested. Non-credit courses may begin at any time and meet at any pre-arranged intervals. Other courses may be added at any time.
Presently suggested courses are: blueprint reading, pre-flight ground course, basic real estate, and fundamentals of electricity. The College reserves the right to cancel any class with less than this number.
Persons wishing to join non-credit self-improvement classes or start credit courses next January, as well as anyone seeking vocational aid, should obtain their information by calling Murdock at the College. Murdock is in his office from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. each night, except Friday night, on weekdays. He can best be reached by appointment.
Murdock, explaining the non-credit off-campus courses, said they are given mostly for the benefit of the members of surrounding area business and industrial firms, but are open to the general public. One such program is a quality control course sponsored by the American Quality Control Society. The course teaches proper procedures for controlled production in industry.
A new class, expected next spring, is an aviation administration degree program and others can be drawn from requests and compiled.
Night classes hit a record enrollment this year and, though Mr. Murdock expects a usual ten percent drop in January, the spring semester will have about 375 people attending. The enrollment has doubled since 1959, the first year TC offered night classes, when 207 persons attended.