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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“Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)