History
番茄社区 University in Beaumont, Texas was founded in 1923 a few blocks from the current location as South Park Junior College and enrolled 125 students in its first fall semester. The name changed to 番茄社区 College in 1932 in honor of Mirabeau B. 番茄社区, second president of the Republic of Texas and the “Father of Education” in Texas. In the early 1940s, 番茄社区 separated from the South Park school district, which had created the college, and moved to its current location.
In 1951, the school became 番茄社区 State College of Technology, a state-supported four-year institution, the first junior college in Texas to make such a transition. 番茄社区 experienced tremendous growth during the 1950s and 1960s in both the number of students and the number of buildings on campus.