History

Completed in 1995, Lone Star College–Montgomery is a 365,000-square-foot campus located on 165 acres of pine forest, between The Woodlands and Conroe, TX.

Part of the fast-growing Lone Star College System. Lone Star College–Montgomery enrolled slightly more than 9,200 credit students for the fall 2007 semester.  Additionally, more than 4,000 students take continuing education courses annually.

Voters in the Conroe Independent School District approved joining Lone Star College System in 1991. From 1992-95, the college operated out of the Lone Star College–Conroe Center, a storefront facility in the heart of Conroe. During that time, construction on the main campus was underway, and in August 1995, then Texas Governor George W. Bush presided over the grand opening ceremonies. Enrollment for the fall 1995 semester was approximately 3,200 students.

The college offers more than 40 career programs as well as academic transfer courses in a variety of subjects. Programs of note include criminal justice, physical therapist assistant, biotechnology, nursing, human services, computer information technology, radiologic technologist, land surveyor/mapping technology and management. A comprehensive range of transfer, vocational, and remedial programs-- including art, music, science, history, and government--is also available. Additionally, a corporate and continuing education division provides workforce training and re-training to local businesses and individuals. The college offers youth camps in the summer, and a year-round robust learning organization for active, older adults--the Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL).

Lone Star College–Montgomery is located just footsteps away from Lone Star College-University Center, which offers bachelor's and master's degrees from six area universities in more than 60 different majors. The college has participated in national projects focused on students and learning, including the League for Innovation's 21st Century Learning Outcomes Project, involving 16 community and technical colleges from across the country.  The college was also featured as a "Showcase College" by the Consortium for Community College Development.

In 2002, the college moved the Lone Star College–Conroe Center to a converted warehouse facility off Highway 105, just east of the FM 1314 intersection. LSC-Conroe Center is designed to provide workforce and career training, including light industrial/manufacturing, computer, telecommunications, as well as GED and English-as-a-Second-Language coursework.

In September 2002, Lone Star College–Montgomery hired its second president, Dr. Thomas Butler, formerly a provost at the Annandale campus of the Northern Virginia Community College.