Jacksonville College is a junior college in Jacksonville, Texas, United States. It belongs to the Baptist Missionary Association of America, and receives financial support from Southern Baptists of Texas, the conservative state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The college's current president is Mike Smith, who has served in that capacity since 2011.
The college is known for its singing groups - a main choir, a smaller group called The Singers, a women's trio, and a men's quartet.
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“I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)