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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.
PR: TCC ranks 17th in nation, 1st in state
Posted by | CommentsThe Washington Monthly, an independent DC social research magazine, has ranked Tacoma Community College 17th among the community colleges in the country—and number one in Washington State. The purpose of the list, according to Washington Monthly editors, is to determine for citizens and policymakers which of the nation’s service-oriented schools are “laying the foundation for the kind of nation we want to become.” The magazine measured and quantified how well individual colleges and universities were “meeting their public obligations in the areas of research, service, and social mobility,” ranking schools based on the results.
TCC among nation's top "military friendly" schools again
Posted by | CommentsTacoma Community College has been named a "Military Friendly School," placing it in the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide that are doing the most to embrace America’s veterans as students, according to G.I. Jobs magazine. This is the second consecutive year the college has earned the "Military Friendly" designation.
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Transue receives 2010 Pacific Regional CEO Award
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Tacoma Community College President Pamela Transue has been selected by the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) as this year’s recipient of the Pacific Regional Chief Executive Officer Award. The award will be presented during the ACCT Annual Community College Leadership Congress in Toronto on Oct. 21, 2010. As the regional award recipient, Transue is automatically nominated for the national Marie Y. Martin CEO Award, which will be presented the next day.
TCC selected for $14 million math experiment
Posted by | CommentsTacoma Community College has been selected as one of 19 community colleges in five states to take part in a two-year, $14 million initiative to improve math literacy. Funded by five foundations, with The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as lead, the experiment will address the high percentage of new college students who are placed in remedial math who either do not successfully complete the sequence of required courses or avoid taking math altogether and therefore never complete their college programs.
PR: Nisqually Red Wind Casino Celebrates Commencement
Posted by | CommentsThe Nisqually Red Wind Casino will celebrate commencement of its third Tribal Enterprise and Gaming Management (TEGM) program graduating class on August 24. With this ceremony, more than 60 people will have successfully earned certificates in the 49-week program, offered through Tacoma Community College Corporate and Continuing Education. Graduates also earn 14 college credits from Tacoma Community College.
The goal of the program is to build management skills. While mid-level casino managers and supervisors may be proficient in their jobs, they may not have had exposure to other aspects of casino management. And as Native tribes are expanding business enterprises, tribal members increasingly need the business knowledge to manage tribal assets.
PR: NSF awards $344,055 grant to TCC
Posted by | CommentsThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $344,055 to Tacoma Community College to expand its existing Secure Logistics curriculum. The grant will allow TCC to develop continuing education modules for people working in the Secure Logistics field, and to further align coursework with industry-based best practices. The grant period began July 1, 2010 and ends June 30, 2012.
PR: Partnership puts area nurses back to work
Posted by | CommentsA pilot program will launch this summer to put local resident immigrants who are skilled in nursing back to work in local hospitals and clinics. Tacoma Community College, WorkForce Central, Franciscan Health System and MultiCare are collaborating to form an international nurse program. The program aims to find qualified immigrant or refugee nurses and provide them with additional training on U.S. nurse practices so they can pass the National Council License Examination (NCLEX). This will help address the nursing shortage locally.
Brandman and TCC launch new local option to earn bachelor degrees
Posted by | CommentsStudents could earn a bachelor's degree in as little as three years through a new partnership between Tacoma Community College and Brandman University. The TCC/Brandman Virtual Transfer Program allows qualified students from TCC to transfer to the fully online degree programs at Brandman. The opportunity enables students to earn a degree at their own pace, whether that is faster or slower than the traditional four-year schedule.
The program is part of the Early Advantage Agreement that was signed by both institutions in fall 2009. The partnership allows for automatic admission to qualified students who successfully complete their associate’s degree at TCC. Brandman makes the transfer process easier and more streamlined.
Strong Show of Support for TCC President Pamela Transue
Posted by | CommentsAt a time when higher education leaders nationwide are being pressed to defend tough budget decisions in the light of draconian budget cuts, Tacoma Community College President Dr. Pamela Transue is being honored with a leadership award – and a campus building is being newly christened with her name.
A naming ceremony for the Pamela Transue Center for Science and Engineering will be held onsite, June 2 at 2:30 p.m., followed by a reception from 3 - 4:30. Located at the south end of campus, the center has been known as the “Science and Engineering Building” since its completion in 2007. With support from the campus community, the name was changed by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees at their October 2009 meeting.
CPTC to help expand Plus 50 initiative
Posted by | CommentsLAKEWOOD, WA – Community colleges around the nation are turning to the Plus 50 Initiative at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) for help in designing programs for baby boomers, who are increasingly returning to campus for job training and to makeover careers waylaid by the economic recession. One of the colleges involved in the initiative’s expansion efforts is Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood. The College will serve as a Learning Partner for the other community colleges in Pierce County. Clover Park will work with Bates Technical College, Tacoma Community College, Pierce College District 11 which includes Pierce College-Fort Steilacoom and Pierce College-Puyallup.
