In early February, my wife and I decided to start fostering for a local animal shelter in Tulsa. Since that time, we have been fostering for Street Cats, a local non-profit animal shelter. It has been a rewarding experience and can help place a cat in a home until the cat is ready to be […]
Stories of Loss, Love, and Reality Checks performed at OKSO Tulsa Grandslam
OKSO held its eighth Tulsa Grandslam in May. The winner for this year’s event was Jordan Price. She won the top honor with a tragic story of her father’s surgery. Price shared a heartfelt story about her estranged father going into high-risk surgery to remove his five aneurysms throughout his arteries, and her healing through […]
Tandy Student Success Center opens at TCC’s Metro Campus
Tandy Student Success Center has opened its doors at Tulsa Community College’s (TCC) Metro Campus. New construction began at the Metro Campus in fall 2021, and it was completed in spring 2022. Dr. Leigh Goodson, president and CEO at TCC, explained the purpose of the renovation, “It is critical TCC provides services to our students […]
A stunning new chapter begins for the Northeast Campus Fuel Pantry
Students at the Northeast Campus of Tulsa Community College (TCC) may now turn to the Northeast Fuel Pantry (NFP) for food assistance. As the March Madness Food Drive Week ended, the gathered donations of dry and refrigerated goods, toiletries, household supplies, and clothing served as an opportunity for the food insecure students of TCC. An […]
First Asian American Pacific Islander Cultural Festival makes a mark on the Tulsa community
On May 14, Tulsa Global District (TGD) and the Hmong American Association of Oklahoma organized the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Cultural Festival to celebrate the global cultures of Tulsa. The festival was in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. As Tulsans walked into the tucked away AAPI Cultural Festival on 18 th and Garnett grass area […]
Kendall Whittier Community Day Festivities
April 9th, Kendall Whittier Community Day was a great way for the community to get involved. Sydney Alison, Community Engagement Coordinator with Kendall Whittier Main Street explained, “We started planning KW Community Day at the end of January of this year.” Alison said they had several organizations in the area reach out to them for […]
TCC Tulsa Children’s Summer Theatre Presents Dr. Seuss Sneetches/Chicken Littles Improv and Disney Frozen Jr. Auditions
Tulsa Community College Tulsa Children’s Summer Theatre presents, Chicken Littles Improvisation Comedy Troupe at 7pm and Dr. Seuss Sneetches at 7:30pm on June 17th and 18th in the Pace Studio Theatre. The performances are the final presentation of our 2022 Theatre Camp at TCC with children performers 7-17 years of age. All tickets are $5 and are on sale June 6th. […]
TCC’s former teacher of Portuguese, Fernanda Thompson, reaches success in visual arts
Fernanda Thompson moved to the United States from Brazil, and from 1996 to 2020, she taught Portuguese language courses at Tulsa Community College (TCC.) Portuguese is the “official language…in Brazil [which] is the world’s most populated Portuguese-speaking country followed by Angola and Mozambique,” according to the World Atlas. Thompson also curated the shows of the […]
How Bikes for Students is helping students inside and outside the classroom
Associate Professor of Science and Mathematics Don Crall at the Northeast Campus is on a mission to give bikes and teach his students about manufacturing in the process. Because they had to walk to the Northeast campus every day, and faced cat calling while walking, Aidan Finnell, an engineering student at Tulsa Community College (TCC), […]
Students attended Higher Education Day at the State Capitol
Student leaders and staff from Tulsa Community College gathered to represent the college at Higher Education Day at the State Capitol on Feb. 15, 2022. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education describes the importance of the day is “To demonstrate the value and importance of our state system of higher education to Oklahoma’s current […]