St. Joseph College, Barranquilla

1911 Jesuits arrive in Barranquilla at the invitation of Archbishop Pedro Adán Brioschi.

1918 Colegio San Jose, Barranquilla, founded by the Society of Jesus with 37 students.

1926 Government accredits school to grant the bachulareate; students no longer need to transfer to another school for their final year. By 1927 the student body numbered 274.

1930 Inaugural meeting Alumni Association.

1935 Brother Eduardo Rodriguez, S.J., begins Day School for Poor Children.

1940-1941 Gabriel García Márquez is a student (and writer for the yearbook) at St. Joseph College, recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

1942 The Free School for Workers (Nightshade) and Day School for Poor Children merge to form the San Jose Institute.

1958 In the neighborhood Las Delicias, at carrera 41d and 74th street, the children's section opens.

1964 The high school moved.

1965: The College reached 1360 students, 560 in the primary school and 800 in the high school. At the Institute, in the city center with day and night classes, there were 790 students.

1974: Construction of sports venues and colosseum, a center for social and cultural activities. The Sisters of St. Joseph announce their retirement from the children's section, but a Sister remained as the head.

1980: At the building where the College had its first headquarters, the Institute San Jose began the high school level, graduating its first class in 1985.

1988: Semi-olympic pool opened.

1990: The College goes coeducational, beginning with the children's section.

1994-1997: Fr. Julio Jimenez, S.J., promoted "Ignatian pedagogy" with the teachers and also inclusion of the folklore of the region, both in liturgical celebrations and artistic events of cultural impact on the city.

2000: On Via del Mar between Barranquilla and Cartagena "Santa Maria del Mar" house founded for rest and meetings.

2003: Agreements with Fulbright Educational Foundation on student exchanges between American educational institutions and the San José School.

2006: Bilingualism begins in the preschool section.

2009: Move to green campus, formally inaugurated on 12 May 2010 with Colombian First Lady Lina Moreno present as well as Eduardo Verano de la Rosa, Governor of the Atlantic Department

2012: Outreach program initiated to construct housing for Santa Lucia along the Canal du Dique affected by the floods. The required social service requirement for baccalaureate is targeted at community development programs for Fe y Alegría schools.

2013: The Institute San Jose was closed because of its economic unsustainability and considerable reduction in students. Fe y Alegría now has 4 children's homes and 7 schools in Barranquilla serving 10,000 low-income students.

2014: Five additional classrooms built for the primary section, as enrollment at San Jose reaches 1,130 students.^[1]