Brunswick community COLLEGE

Brunswick Junior College is a tax-supported, nonprofit, public college that ia under the control of a board of Trustees. the school was established by the North Carolina Legislature in July 1979 under provisions of the General Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 115-A, passed by the Legislature in 1963.

The institution is supervised by the North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges and the North Carolina Community College System. Brunswick Community College was first chartered as Brunswick Technical Institute. On May 1, 1979, the General Assembly passed a bill to allow technical institutes to change their names to technical colleges with the approval of the Board of Trustees and the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners. On October 5, 1979, the Board of Trustees, with the approval of the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners, voted unanimously to change the name of the school to Brunswick Technical College. The institution received its first accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1983. In 1988, the name of the Community college was changed to Brunswick Community College to better reflect statewide changes in community colleges.