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Cisco Junior College is a community college located one mile north of Cisco, Texas, a small town between Fort Worth, Texas and Abilene, Texas.

Cisco Junior College was established in 1909 when O.C. Britton gained the support of far-sighted Cisco citizens in opening a private school known as Britton Training Institute. This school operated successfully until military involvement in World War I so depleted the number of students that it was forced to close.

In 1923, the Christian Church of Texas reopened the institution as Randolph College and operated it until 1932 as a four-year church-related school. Financial shortages plagued the college, and from 1932 until 1936 officials tried to keep the school open as a two-year junior college. When this effort failed, the college was again closed.

On May 8, 1939, after months of planning and consultation with state officials, Cisco citizens succeeded in getting enacted into legislation a bill which created Cisco Junior College as a part of the Cisco Independent School District. R.N. Cluck, superintendent of Cisco schools, who had devoted years to the project, became its first president. Randolph College properties were purchased, the college was formally opened in September, 1939, and the first students were received in 1940. Such was the success of this venture that in 1956 the college was separated from the public schools, and a Board of Regents was elected.

Cisco Junior College occupies a 92-acre campus one mile north of Cisco, an Eastland County community located between Fort Worth and Abilene.

College classes are also offered at an off-campus location in nearby Abilene, Texas.

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