Spring 2025 Honor's Ceremony Del Mar College

On April 14, 2025, Del Mar College and South Texas Family Planning & Health Care representatives announced a “joint health venture” and provided tours of the organization’s health care clinic on wheels, which is a 40-foot trailer featuring equipment and services that you can find in a regular doctor’s office. The partnership will bring health care services to students on all three of the college’s campuses––Heritage, Windward and Oso Creek––on a scheduled monthly basis.

Through their partnership with the Texas Urban Council, Corpus Christi ISD has received grant funding in support of their continued work to prepare students for post-secondary success. The $569,417 in grant funding provided by Commit Partnership will be used to expand early college access, including partnering with Del Mar College. The four-year grant will help students access early college coursework, experience quality advising, and improve districtwide systems targeting higher levels of early college/dual enrollment coursework and increased enrollment in a post-secondary institution immediately upon graduation. More details can be found at https://www.ccisd.us/article/2124455.

In 2014, Del Mar College District voters approved a $157 million bond referendum to fund capital improvements on the Heritage and Windward campuses. Those project list included the William F. White, Jr. Library on the Heritage Campus. The White Library was originally built to support five floors and first opened in October 1967 with two floors. In 1979, the college added the third through fifth floors, finishing the top floor for use in 1998. The facility’s namesake served as a Del Mar College Regent for 33 years from 1951 until 1984. To celebrate the completion of the renovation project, the College held an Open House on April 10, 2025, to allow the general public an opportunity to view the transformation in person. Retired DMC librarian Alan Berecka read an original poem called “All Aboard” to close the public remarks portion of the event.

On April 1, 2025, Del Mar College’s Transportation Training Services (TTS) provided transportation for The Wall That Heals memorial replica exhibit to its next destination – Laredo. Del Mar College TTS instructors Mark Vela and Alvin Amador drove the exhibit from the College’s Windward Campus in Corpus Christi, Texas, to an organizing location where the Laredo Police Department and local Vietnam War veterans met up to lead the DMC team on a parade route through the streets of Laredo before delivering the exhibit to its display site.

Regular Meeting of the Del Mar College Board of Regents for Tuesday April 8, 2025.