Stories for Tacoma CC
TCC Alumnus Chi Choi honored at “Transforming Lives” event
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Tacoma Community College alumnus Chi Choi was one of five students and former students selected to receive the "Transforming Lives" award from Washington’s Trustee Association for Community and Technical Colleges (TACTC). TACTC chose the five students, including Choi, from 34 students nominated by the Washington community and technical colleges. Choi and his fellow award recipients were presented with a $500 prize at the TACTC’s Winter Conference dinner in Olympia Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. The five award recipients are also featured in a video, currently in production.
Choi is currently employed as a design engineer at Genie Industries in Moses Lake, WA. He was nominated for the award by the TCC Board of Trustees.
TCC Ways2Pay4College workshops coming up
Posted by | CommentsTacoma Community College is offering Ways2Pay workshops for high school and college students starting tomorrow night. Students can get help with tax preparation, filling out the FAFSA, scholarship essay writing and more. The Ways2Pay events are free and open to all students. See poster at this links for dates, times, and workshops offered.
For more information contact Communications Consultant Rachel Payne at 253.460.4381.
Invista Performance Solutions open house rescheduled due to weather
Posted by | CommentsIn anticipation of snowy weather conditions, the Invista launch has been rescheduled to May 1, 2012. We look forward to celebrating this launch with Pierce County businesses in May.
The original release regarding this event is below.
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Businesses or organizations that need training and education for their workers have a new resource in Pierce County. Invista Performance Solutions is the first collaboration among Pierce County colleges to serve the business community through a single point of contact.
Invista is responsible for centralized coordination of corporate education programs and services that advance businesses by increasing the skills of their workers. This partnership of colleges includes Bates Technical College, Clover Park Technical College, Pierce College District, and Tacoma Community College
"Symbolism in Still Life" exhibition opens Jan. 3, 2012
Posted by | CommentsA new exhibition, Symbolism in Still Life, opens in January at The Gallery at TCC. The exhibition runs Jan. 3- March 16, 2012. A reception will be held in The Gallery Jan. 12 from 4-7 p.m.
In this exhibition, local artists display pieces that address themes of culture, identity, justice, morality and politics.
Reaching out to the College Bound
Posted by | CommentsThe Tacoma Community College outreach team and other campus support services are busy building a student support team that will leap into action next fall. That’s when members of the first cohort of Washington’s “College Bound Scholars” program are scheduled to arrive on campus.
“College Bound” is a five-year-old state scholarship program designed to encourage low-income middle school students to aspire to higher education. Students sign a pledge in 7th or 8th grade, agreeing to keep their grades up and stay out of trouble. The state, in return, will pay four years of tuition plus books at any Washington college a pledge student can get into. The first cohort of eight graders signed up in 2007. They’ll be arriving on college campuses Fall 2012.
First in the State: TCC Student Completion Rates
Posted by | CommentsThe 2010-2011 cohort of TCC students attained the highest achievement point increase of any community or technical college in the state.
The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) uses achievement points to determine how colleges are progressing towards the goal of increasing student completion – which means different things to different students.
TCCs Stokes named Lyon College Distinguished Alumnus
Posted by | CommentsDr. Tim Stokes, Tacoma Community College Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, was honored last Friday as a Distinguished Alumnus of Lyon College.
Stokes graduated from Lyon, a small liberal arts college located 90 miles northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1992. The award was presented during the weekend homecoming celebrations, Oct. 21-23.
TCC increases retention rates
Posted by | CommentsTacoma Community College increased fall-to-fall retention rates for students enrolled in two or more developmental courses from 47% for the 2005 cohort to 58% for the 2009 cohort. This improvement is associated with the Declared and Prepared advising model, an intrusive advising approach that includes an Advising Dashboard, an improved HD 101 student success course, new student orientation focused on hands-on educational planning, and the Welcome Week where staff are stationed throughout campus to answer questions. This intervention has been scaled to reach 11% of students and 85% of students in developmental education.
G.I. Jobs names area colleges 'military friendly'
Posted by | CommentsG.I. Jobs, the premier magazine for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has awarded Clover Park Technical College, Pierce College District, and Tacoma Community College the designation of Military Friendly School. The 2012 Military Friendly Schools list honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members and veterans as students.
TCC to play host to Brandman University business degree courses
Posted by | CommentsA new program at Tacoma Community College will give students a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree option on the Tacoma campus.
TCC’S Zero-Gravity Student Returns to Earth
Posted by | CommentsBy Rachel Payne, Tacoma Community College
After testing his team’s self-designed and constructed experiment on-board a gravity-defying aircraft, a student from Tacoma Community College is busy evaluating his data after experiencing weightlessness at NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston.
TCC Honors Distinguished Alumnus, Honorary Degree Recipients
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From left to right: Joe Harned, Dr. Walter Nolte, Laurie Jinkins
Tacoma Community College will honor Distinguished Alumnus Dr. Walter Nolte and Honorary Degree Recipients Laurie Jinkins and Joe Harned at the Distinguished Alumni and Honorary Degree Awards Dinner. The event will be held in the Building 11 Student Center from 6-8 p.m. on May 25. The cost is $50 per person.
TCC Hosts Annual Job Fair
Posted by | CommentsMore than 45 employers will participate in Tacoma Community College’s annual Job Fair April 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the college’s Tacoma campus. Full-time, part-time, internship and temporary positions may be available. The event is an opportunity for students and members of the community to meet a variety of employers and find jobs firsthand.
$145,000 grant enhances education for hospital workers
Posted by | CommentsBy Shawn Jennison, Director of Communications & Marketing, Clover Park Technical College
Lakewood -- Clover Park Technical College and Tacoma Community College have received a $145,000 Hospital Employee Education and Training (HEET) grant from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to provide enhanced education for hospital workers in Pierce County.
The collaborative effort is being supported by MultiCare Health Systems and United Food and Commercial Workers UFCW Local 21. Funding through this grant will provide training for up to 30 employees who wish to enter a nursing career pathway.
Keely still teaching at 80
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Economics instructor Tim R. Keely, the last member of the original TCC faculty still teaching at the college, celebrates his 80th birthday Monday, Nov. 1. A celebration will be held at 12:30 p.m. in the Building 9 faculty lounge.
Keely was hired as an instructor at Tacoma Community College when it opened in 1965 and still teaches full time. He's known on campus as "Tim R. Keely," or "Keely the Elder," to distinguish him from his nephew, retired biology professor Tim B. Keely. Generations of TCC staff and students have remembered it this way: "The B is for Biology."
TCC Student Life Arts and Lecture Series presents...
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Media Pioneer Chiqui Cartagena (Thursday, October 7 at 11:30 am in the Opgaard Student Center) has 20 years' experience marketing some of America's most successful Spanish-language products. She has received many honors for her pioneering work in Hispanic marketing, and is the author of Latino Boom! What Every Business Needs to Know about the US Hispanic Market, a Random House business book that is required reading for many college Hispanic marketing classes. Currently the managing director at Multicultural Communication at Meredith Integrated Marketing, she leads the development and execution of a wide variety of direct marketing programs for clients interested in reaching multicultural consumers.
PR: TCC to announce largest private gift ever, introduce donor on Oct. 6
Posted by | CommentsTacoma Community College will announce the largest private gift in the 45-year history of the college Wednesday, Oct. 6. at noon. The college will introduce the donor at a special event in the Opgaard Student Center, Building 11, on the Tacoma campus, 6501 S. 19th Street. The gift will support the Health Careers Center at TCC, which is currently being designed. It is tentatively scheduled to open in 2013.
