Speaker snippets from the DMC ceremony on Feb. 6, 2025On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, Del Mar College officials held an unveiling of the newly renovated Memorial Classroom building, along with a new Texas Historical Commission marker recognizing Del Mar College as “a centerpiece of higher education in the Coastal Bend region.”Dr. Mark Escamilla, President and Chief Executive Officer, welcomed about 125 attendees and shared details about the renovation project. The Memorial Classroom Building now houses the college’s Executive Administrative Offices, Human Resources Office and the College Relations Office, among others.DMC Board of Regents Chair Carol A. Scott thanked the community for its support for the nearly $17.8 million modernization of the building. The project is part of the $157 million bond referendum passed by Del Mar College District voters in 2014 as part of Heritage Campus and Windward Campus capital improvement projects.In addition to other celebratory activities during the event, the college unveiled in front of Memorial Classroom Building a permanently installed Texas State Historical Marker provided by the Texas Historical Commission. The historical designation and marker resulted from two former DMC students, Troy Nessner and Preston Martin, initiating the process as part of a project in History Professor Dr. Mark Robbins’ class back in 2017. Completion of that process took two years before the college received the marker, and now, the marker has a permanent home with the Memorial Classroom Building renovation completed.Both Nessner––who is a 2019 DMC Hall of Fame inductee, a member of the Nueces County Historical Commission and now a graduate student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi––and Dr. Robbins, who is with the college’s Social Sciences Department, spoke about the work that went into the project before the marker unveiling. More information is available at vikingnews.delmar.edu/
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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. - 6:41DMC invites public to explore and enjoy the new features, services at newly renovated White Library
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. - 5:26Transportation Training Services: Transporting The Wall That Heals to Laredo
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. - 2:04:07DMC Board of Regents Regular Meeting (4-8-2025)
Regular Meeting of the Del Mar College Board of Regents for Tuesday April 8, 2025. - 4:37Texas Mutual Safety Grant Check Presentation to Del Mar College
On Thursday, March 27, 2025, Texas Mutual presented its twelfth oversized check for $100,000 to DMC, bringing the company’s support for safety training in the Coastal Bend to a total of $1.2 million. The presentation was held in the Workforce Development Center on the Windward Campus. The college first initialized training through the Texas Mutual grant with a “Bus Safety First” Program that focused on drivers with Commercial Driver Licenses, or CDLs, by providing safety instruction to drive buses for either the city or area independent school districts. The College has expanded its safety training courses and programs over the years to cover areas ranging from healthcare to construction to radiation handling to food handling to maritime safety and more. Del Mar College has trained over 6,000 individuals, including industry partners’ employees and public participants, who have taken workplace safety courses through the Workforce Programs & Corporate Services or Continuing Education departments. Courses and programs have been partially supported by Texas Mutual Insurance Company’s Safety Grant for the past 11 years.
