[5] The campus features include a multistory parking garage, library, classrooms, offices, and a student development center.

[7] By number of students, this campus is the largest and hosts the college district's fine arts and athletics[8] programs.

The campus features a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) art gallery,[9][10] theatre center,[11] gymnasium (Cougar Hall), and tennis facilities.

In January 2013, the college opened an 88,000-square-foot library building with majestic architecture inspired by Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia.

[17] Designed to support 7,500 students at capacity, the campus's opening allowed for the expansion of the college's veterinary medicine program.

The residents of Collin County approved a $600 million bond proposition in May 2017 to fund the college district's master plan.

[32] The effects of this pandemic have been blown utterly out of proportion across our nation and reported with unfortunate sensationalism and few facts regardless of which news outlet one tunes into.

It has become political in a pivotal election year and frankly, it has made our jobs all the more difficult.Collin College has been repeatedly criticized for its lack of transparency regarding COVID-19 on campus and risks of in-person classes.

College president Matkin overruled faculty concerns about virus protections in June 2020, stating the campus would remain open.

FIRE also referenced the senior administration's overturning of recommended contract renewals of two faculty members, Audra Heaslip and Suzanne Jones.

Collin College declined to renew Lora Burnett's teaching contract for the following year and later settled a lawsuit over her non-renewal for $70,000 and attorney's fees.

According to Professor Phillips, in 2017, President Matkin and other members of the administration admonished him and threatened his job following his campaign to press the city of Dallas to remove its Confederate monuments.

[50] On April 24, 2023, the American Association of University Professors issued a report titled "Egregious Violations of Academic Freedom at Collin College."

It documents the dismissals of Professors Lora Burnett, Suzanne Jones, and Michael Phillips and concludes that they were " compelled to find that general conditions for academic freedom at Collin College are severely degraded.

"[51] In a statement, the college replied to the report, maintaining that "that tenure and academic freedom are not unqualified privileges that can be extorted by external groups for their own purposes.

[53] The college had worked with university partners to offer their bachelor's degrees at its Collin Higher Education Center.