Culture and Education
Notable historical buildings in Texarkana include the post office and federal building that straddle the state line, the Ace of Clubs House, The Perot (Theater), and the Regional Museum. The Aces of Clubs House is shaped like a club on a playing card and supposedly inspired by a winning poker hand.
The Texarkana Symphony Orchestra was established in 2005, providing the community with several professional concerts of classical music every year. In 2007, the Texarkana Youth Symphony Orchestra was established, presenting spring and winter concerts.
Texarkana College, a community college whose origins date to 1927, enrolls more than four thousand annually. Texarkana College provides associate degrees in with Art, Behavioral Science, Business Administration, Criminal Justice, Drama, Foreign Language, Government, History, Journalism, Music, Nursing, Social Science, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Math and Physics. Also, Certificate programs in workforce training are offered in HVAC, Auto Body Repair, Auto Technology, Computer Technology, Construction Technology, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Diesel Technology, Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counseling, Electricity, EMT, Management, Marketing, Office Careers, Small Engine Repair, Vocational Nursing and Welding. Texarkana College has two student resident halls for full-time students. Students and community members alike can enjoy a full service recreation facility complete with the area's only Olympic-sized heated indoor swimming pool. The Continuing Education Department offers non-credit enrichment classes for the community, local businesses wishing to provide targeted skills training to their workforce and also children in the area. More information can be found on their website at www.texarkanacollege.edu.
In 1971, East Texas State University began offering classes at the campus, an institution that later became Texas A&M University–Texarkana. Texas A&M University-Texarkana has constructed a large campus at Bringle Lake. Historically an upperclassmen and graduate institution, in 2010, TAMU-T began accepting freshmen and sophomores. In 2011 the first dormitory opened at Bringle lake campus.
A branch from The University of Arkansas Community College at Hope (UACCH) recently opened in Texarkana.
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“As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their ocellated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.”
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