Bevill State Community College is a public

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in Sumiton, Alabama. It enrolls 3,986 students and has been accredited by the

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since 1994. , the college had four campuses and one center. the Fayette Campus, the Hamilton Campus, the Jasper Campus, the Sumiton Campus and the Pickens Center. The college's service area is a seven-county region containing over one-quarter million people.

History

Bevill State was formed in 1992 as a result of the merger of ''Walker State Technical College'' and ''Brewer State Junior College''. The two institutions were created as a result of a 1963 enabling act of the Alabama legislature forming a statewide system of junior and technical colleges. The former opened in Sumiton in 1966, and the latter (named after former

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Albert P. Brewer) opened in Fayette in 1969. The Hamilton campus of Northwest Alabama Community College, which had opened in 1966, was merged into Bevill State in 1993. Walker College was founded in 1938 by Dr. Carl Jesse as a private junior college. In 1993, the financially struggling college was acquired by the

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and merged into the

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as ''UAB Walker College''. After a five-year affiliation did not pan out financially, the campus acquired by Bevill State to become the Jasper campus. In 2007, the Pickens County Education Center was opened in Carrollton. It is overseen by the Fayette campus.

Athletics

The college formerly fielded teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, and softball at some of its various campuses, in the

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. In 2017, it was announced that Bevill State would be bringing back athletics for the 2017–18 school year after its previous suspension. It offers different sports on its various campuses.

Campus maps

File:BSCC-AL-FayetteCampus.jpg, Fayette campus File:BSCC-AL-SumitonCampus.jpg, Sumiton campus File:BSCC-AL-JasperCampus.jpg, Jasper campus File:BSCC-AL-HamiltonCampus.jpg, Hamilton campus

References

External links

Official website
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