Lee College officials and community partners cut the big red ribbon to celebrate the grand re-opening of the renovated Student Center and the new Student Resource and Advocacy Center. The updated two-story building offers students the ultimate campus experience – including a new Learning Hub, Game Room, food market, wellness room and meditation space.

This fall, President Villanueva was invited to join three other state leaders to speak on a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. TribFest is a three-day event and one of the largest colloquiums of thought leaders in the nation. To discuss the topic of Race and Higher Education, she was joined by Ruth Simmons, the President’s Distinguished Fellow at Rice University and adviser to the president of Harvard University on historically black college and university initiatives. Dr. Simmons was previously the president of Prairie View A&M University, Brown University and Smith College. Additionally on the panel were Texas State Senator Royce West from Dallas, and the president of Paul Quinn College, Michael Sorrell.

The Student Rotaract Club raised nearly $10,000 to purchase a prosthetic leg for Lee College Hall of Fame graduate Titan Tullous. Titan says he is grateful for the outpouring of support from the college community. He hopes to have his new leg by the end of December so he can walk again. To learn more about Titan and his journey, click here.

With a 10-1 record, our Navigators are having the best season start in school history! The basketball team has moved to #10 in the NJCAA Division I rankings and #9 in the NJCAA Media poll. You can show your support for the Navs tomorrow at 7 p.m., right here at Lee College as they take on Paris Junior College. To follow the team, check out the Navigators schedule that runs through March. GO NAVS!

Congratulations to the Mendoza Debate Society for being named Community College Overall Sweepstakes Champions and for finishing in 5^th place in Overall Sweepstakes at the Red River Classic at Louisiana State University - Shreveport. Lee College has now extended its lead in the 2023/2024 IPDA National Community College Standings and several debaters have climbed towards their respective top 10 individual rankings for the IPDA season. 

Seven Honors Program students successfully showcased their work at the Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Council (GCIC) Honors Conference at Lone Star College-CyFair in October. Some presentations were based on projects from The Human Condition. Others came from papers students wrote as honors contracts for ENGL 1301 and ENGL 2341. Students also presented papers they wrote in HIST 1302, ENGL 1302 and ENGL 1302, which is part of the Puente Program.