College History

Lone Star College–CyFair opened its doors August 25, 2003 as the 5th college in the Lone Star College System (previously North Harris Montgomery Community College District).

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Fall of 2002
Administrators -58
Faculty - 97
Staff - 77
Fairbanks Center Students - 2209

1/13/03 NHMCCD Board approves Library Partnership
3/2/03 Administrators move into Barker Cypress Technology Center
4/10/03 Deans announced at Cy-Fair College
5/03 College staff announces its first five graduates:
     Eric Cuyler
     Sharon Closner
     Marisol Garza
     Linda Garza
     Patricia Hardouin

7/31/03 Retention Grant $70,608 from Houston Endowment
8/14/03 Board approves Cy-Fair College nurse program
8/19/03 Harris County Public Library - Cy-Fair College Branch opens
9/04/03 First day of classes
10/03 Fairbanks Center hosts its first annual International Fall Festival
10/04/03 Opening Celebration
11/03 First annual Health Fair at the Fairbanks Center

Spring 2003
Administrators -59
Faculty - 105
Staff - 82
Barker Cypress Students - 3,454
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,374

Fall 2003
Administrators - 77
Faculty - 185
Staff - 191
Barker Cypress Students - 6,900
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,314

Summer 2003
Discovery College begins
Barker Cypress registration count: 0
Fairbanks Center registration count: 202

2/1/04 Project Great Centers Grant $256,000 from Texas Education of Excellence
2/1/04 UAW Ford Skills Enchancement Project Grants $37,662 from UAW Fort National Programs Center
2/9/04 Mini-Grant $4,458 from NHMCCD and NHMCCD Foundation
3/1/04 GO Center Project in two high schools Grant $15,158 from THECB and College for All Texans Foundation: Closing the Gaps
4/30/04 VCT Grant for Teacher Certification Program $80,000 from Virtual College of Texas Development of Distance Learning
5/04 The First inaugural class of firefighters graduate
5/17/04 The first L.I.F.E. program dubutes
8/16/04 By the People Grant $2,000 from McNeil Lehrer Productions
9/1/04 Advanced Technical Credit Faculty Competency Development Grant $120,000 from Texas Higher Education Coordination Board (THECB) / Perkins Leadership
9/1/04 Advanced Technical Credit Maintenance Project Grant $100,000.00 from THECB / Perkins Leadership
9/1/04 Perkins Basic Annual $97,165 from THECB / Perkins Leadership
9/3/04 Honors Program Grant $500 from Knox Foundation
10/04 Cy-Fair College launches the Child Watch Program
10/04 Lech Walesa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, leader of Poland's Solidarity movement and the first democratically-elected president of the Republic of Poland spoke at the Barker Cypress location. His presentation is "After the Wall: Building a New Europe of Peace and Prosperity."
10/04 Cy-Fair College features the Cyber Cafe
10/1/04 Project Great Centers of Excellence Grant $384,000 from the Texas Education Agency
11/3/04 Rockwell Grant $2,000 from the Rockwell Foundation
12/6/04 First Cy-Fair College Scout Classes scheduled to begin January 29, 2005
12/13/04 Saturday Classes are now available at Cy-Fair College starting spring semester

Spring 2004
Administrators - 76
Faculty -191
Staff - 229
Barker Cypress Students - 7,049
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,345

Fall 2004
Administrators - 72
Faculty - 130
Staff - 230
Barker Cypress Students - 8,727
Fairbanks Center Students - 3,055

Summer 2004 
Discovery College
Barker Cypress registration count: 839
Fairbanks Center registration count: 455

2/1/05 UAW Ford National Programs Center Grant $47,148 from UAW Ford National Programs Center
4/05 First annual Emergency Services Education Center Chili Cook-Off
4/05 Inaugural Dance Team Takes 2nd Place at Junior College Division National Competition
4/1/05 Transition to Teaching COOL Grant $36,000 from the Department of Education through Austin Commmunity College
5/05 Cy-Fair College earns the Wildscapes Demonstration Certification from the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department and the National Wildlife Federation
7/5/05 First inaugural paramedic class graduates
8/1/05 Career Counseling Services opens its doors to the community
8/11/05 Pinning ceremony for inaugural radiology class graduates
9/1/05 Mini-Grant $8,700 from NHMCCD and NHMCCD Foundation
9/1/05 Advanced Technical Credit Faculty Competency Development Grant 
$120,000 from Texas Higher Education Coordination Board (THECB) / Perkins Leadership
9/1/05 Advanced Technical Credit Maintenance Project Grant $140,000 from THECB / Perkins Leadership
9/1/05 Perkins Basic Annual Grant $125,182 from THECB / Perkins Leadership
9/1/05 Logistics Management Curriculum Project Grant $75,000 from THECB / Perkins Leadership
9/1/05 SBC Accelerator Competitive Technology Grant $16,120 from SBC Foundation
10/1/05 Project Great Centers of Excellence Grant $435,300 from Texas Education Agency
10/1/05 Honors Program Grant $500 from Knox Foundation
10/15/05 First annual Cy-Fest for the community
11/17/05 The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education honored Susan Edwards as the 2005 Texas Professor of the Year
12/15/05 First Associates Degree Nursing Class Pinning Ceremony

Spring 2005 
Administrators - 73
Faculty - 134
Staff - 245
Barker Cypress Students - 9,221
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,777

Fall 2005
Administrators - 82
Faculty - 146
Staff - 263
Barker Cypress Students - 10,351
Fairbanks Center Students - 3,010

Summer 2005
Discovery College
Barker Cypress registration count: 1,073
Fairbanks Center registration count: 829

1/06 Dr.Macarena Aguilar , professor of ESOL, is recognized as Texas TESOLer of the Year
1/06 Three Cy-Fiar College students: Sarah Feiden, Rachel Franklin and Rebecca McMurtrey, sing their way into the Texas Music Educators Association all-state choir
2/06 Cy-Fair College won the Debate Sweepstakes Award and places second in Overall Combined Team Sweepstakes at the Texas Community College Speech and Theater Association's State Competition
2/06 The Delta Epsilon Chi (DEX) team of Rachel Herrera and Frances Bailey won second-place medals at the 39th Annual Texas Delta Epsilon Chi Career Development Conference
2/2/06 Land Tejas Donates 325,000 to Cy-Fair College
2/20/06 Short Term Training for Employment Grant $78,331 from Houston Galveston Area Council
3/9/06 New Drivers Education Program scheduled to begin April 10th
4/06 Dance Team takes 5th place in Junior College Division National Competition
4/06 Cy-Fair College's Beta Lambda Mu Chapter was awarded the 2006 Most Distinguished Chapter out of 1,200 chapters world wide.
     - Most Distinguished Chapter
     - Beta Alpha Award (for chapters that have been designated distinguished chapters at the international convention for three or more consecutive years)
     - Scholarship Hallmark (top 25)
     - Leadership Hallmark (top 25)
     - Service Hallmark (top 25)
     - Pinnacle Gold Award (for increasing our membership by 10% each year for the past 3 years)
     - Distinguished Chapter President Award - Emily Bolt
     - Paragon Award - Jeff Edwards
     - Distinguished Advisor Award - Susan Edwards
     - Susan Edwards elected as the advisor representative to the Phi Theta Kappa Board of Directors
4/06 Dr. Diane Troyer earned the Paul A. Elsner International Excellence Leadership Award
5/06 The Fairbanks Center partners with Mission Yahweh to provide homeless women in their facility educational opportunities
6/06 Cy-Fair College earns Top Texas Habitat Award
6/2/06 Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center donats $15,000 for college scholarship endowment
6/20/06 New Machining Certificate available at Cy-Fair College scheduled for spring 2007 semester
8/7/06 New certificate programs available for developmentally disabled adults (P.A.L.S.) scheduled for fall 2006 semester
9/1/06 Mini Grant $9,000 from NHMCCD and NHMCCD Foundation
9/1/06 Intensive English for Specific Technical Occupation Grant $75,000 from Texas Higher Education Coordination Board (THECB)
9/1/06 Resource Guide for Effective Advising to Technical Students Grant $75,000 from THECB
9/1/06 Advanced Technical Credit Project $172,200 from Texas Education Agency
9/1/06 Perkins Basic Annual Grant $126,995 from THECB / Perkins Leadership
10/06 Cy-Fair College's Transitional Studies Program is awarded the 2006 TADE Exemplary Developmental Education Program Award
10/1/06 Project Great Centers of Excellence Grant $384,000 from Texas Education Agency
11/06 Cy-Fair College Chess Club places 3rd in the 2006 Texas Chess Association Grade and Collegiate Tournament in Brownsville
11/06 $50,000 Edwin C. Schroeder Trust provides 50 annual scholarships for Cy-Fair College graduates

Spring 2006
Administrators - 85
Faculty - 144
Staff - 293
Barker Cypress Students - 9,993
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,710

Fall 2006
Administrators - 88
Faculty - 154
Staff - 319
Barker Cypress Students - 11,216
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,916

Summer 2006
Discovery College
Barker Cypress registration count: 1,315
Fairbanks Center registration count: 1,035

2007 Fairbanks Center adopts Dean Middle School
2007 Jeff Edwards honored as a Faculty Excellence Award winner with the prestigious Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Award
2/07 Jeremy Coffman takes second in State Title for extemporaneous speaking as well as fourth place in impromptu speaking at the Texas Community College Speech and Theater Association's State Tournament
2/1/07 Skills Development Fund Grant $663,258 from Texas Workforce Commission
2/12/07 Cy-Fair College partners with Texas A&M University to launch a guaranteed admissions program benefiting community college transfer students seeking bachelor's degrees
3/07 Horizon Award for Advisors - Esther Robinson
Advisor Hall of Honor - Sandra Harvey
Regional Coordinator Award for Outstanding Service to the Texas Region - Jared Camarata
5 Star Chapter Award and Continued Excellence Award - Beta Lambda Mu chapter
4/07 Fulbright Scholar Specialist Dr. Abdelrahman A. Abdrabou visits Cy-Fair College for the Fourth Annual International Education Conference
4/07 Delta Epsilon Chi's Frances Bailey and her team were awarded 2nd place in National Management Institute at International Career Development Conference
4/07 The Dance Teams takes 4th in Junior College Division National Competition
4/07 Phi Theta Kappa Chapter honors earned the Leadership Hallmark Award and Scholarship Hallmark Award. The Beta Lambda Mu Chapter was also named among the Top 100 Chapters and earned the Beta Alpha Continued Excellence Award. Individual honors were awarded to Belsis Romero, chapter president, who received the Guistwhite Scholarship; and Cy-Fair College's Vice President of Administrative Services Dr. Robert Williams, who received the Administrator Award of Distinction
4/07 Cy-Fair College's Vice President Dr. Earl Campa receives the prestigious Administrator Award of Distinction at the Phi Theta Kappa 89th Annual International Convention in Tennessee
5/3/07 Fairbanks Center 5-year Celebration
5/5/07 P.A.L.A. program first five graduates:
      Caroline Mendoza
      Kayla McCormick
      Rebekah Castro
      Jacqueline Forsthoff
5/16/07 The Associate Degree Nursing Program increases its yearly enrollment to 60 students
6/07 Medical Assistant Program earns national accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Allied Health Education Programs
6/07 Andrea Aguirre and Calvin Paul are named All Texas Academic Team
7/26/07 76-year-old sophomore majors in video production
7/31/2007 Neighborhood Wal-Mart donates $1,000 to Cy-Fair College and NHMCCD
9/24/07 Jan Petroni Brown, Cy-Fair College Instructor, Earns TexESOLer of the year award
10/07 Irma Chapa receives a 30-year pin service award at the Texas Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (TASFAA) Conference for her 30 years of dedication
10/17/07 Two Cy-Fair College students who felt called to the nursing profession are the first scholarship recipients of a $75,000 donation from St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital

Spring 2007
Administrators - 92
Faculty - 158
Staff - 312
Barker Cypress Students - 11,071
Fairbanks Center Students - 2,808

Fall 2007
Administrators - 88
Faculty - 167
Staff - 353
Barker Cypress Students - 12,251
Fairbanks Center Students - 3,024

Summer 2007
Discovery College
Barker Cypress registration caounts: 1,700
Fairbanks Center registration count: 1,105

1/08 Marketing students at Lone Star College-CyFair will soon see some of their own semester project ideas used for the marketing of the Texas Copperheads
1/16/08 Former NHMCCD becomes Lone Star College System. The new name and logo are announced during a district wide unveiling ceremony.
1/16/08 Former Cy-Fair College becomes Lone Star College-CyFair
2/15/08 Delta Epsilon Chi takes multiple state awards. Kadie Paul, Donald Smith, and Frances Bailey take 1st through 4th wins at the Texas Delta Epsilon Chi Career Development Conference.
3/20/08 Ambassador Ahmad Kamal visits college and informs community, students and faculty on the global perspective of Pakistan
4/08 Radiology students win state honors Sameera Quaid takes first-place, Nicole Pierce takes second and Bradley Wilbanks captured the third in the Student Leadership Competition, which includes an oral conference presentation in front of 200 other students
4/11/08 LSC-CyFair Nursing Program receives prestigious FIPSE Grant
4/14/08 Tennis instructor Tim Sebesta earns the National Ace Award for outstanding leadership
4/18/08 LSC-CyFair Men's soccer team wins championship title
4/18/08 LSC-CyFair students earn national honors in New York for Model United Nations with Distinguished Delegation Award
4/18/08 Delta Epsilon Chi student Donald Smith takes 4th place at the International Career Development Conference Prepared Design national comptetion.
5/5/08 LSC-CyFair Honors Programs sponsors first Students Symposium
5/9/08 LSC-CyFair French adjunct instructor, Toby Reeman receives France's highest honor, the Ordre des Palmes Acadèmiques

Spring 2008 
Administrators - 87
Faculty - 167
Staff - 360
Barker Cypress Students -12,198
Fairbanks Center Students- 2,775