Summer is coming soon, and that means spending more time outdoors. For many Tulsans, that includes a visit to Gathering Place. The Park is reopening in phases due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The date for Phase 1 includes opening of the trails, major pathways, skatepark, lawns, and BMX Pump Track scheduled to be available for use at the reopening. During phase one, The Lodge, Boathouse, Adventure […]
Professor’s profile: Jenny Fields, dean of the School of Nursing, pursues a goal of nursing education to meet complex hospital demands
Jenny Fields became the Tulsa Community College (TCC) dean of the school of nursing on July 1, 2019. She has been with the TCC since January 2014. Before the promotion to the dean’s position, Fields worked as an assistant professor and faculty department chair in the Career Mobility Track. Which degrees do you hold? I […]
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Goodson urges TCC to stay the course in mission for equity
President also discusses pandemic and plan to reopen Dr. Leigh Goodson, president of Tulsa Community College, said the death of George Floyd and the ensuing outcry for racial justice give greater urgency to TCC’s mission to promote learning equity for all students. In a lengthy interview June 3 with the TCC Connection, Goodson expressed solidarity […]
Reporter’s notebook: TCC reopens Northeast campus computer lab
Tulsa Community College (TCC) campuses have been closed since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All classes were switched to online. On June 1, the Northeast campus (NEC) FACET Computer Center was reopened. It is the first facility in the entire TCC to be fully prepared to meet students again. I reserved a computer at […]
TCC redesigns the Fall 2020 class schedule and includes sanitizing of spaces
Tulsa Community College (TCC) Fall 2020 semester will be quite different than previous years. The entire college is going through phases to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic situation. TCC will have several types of classes in the fall, according to the college’s marketing department press release. The four (4) types of class offerings are the […]
TCC Professor makes face masks to aid healthcare workers in pandemic
During this time of uncertainty, people are looking for ways to help. Emily Westerfield, assistant professor of theater teaches theatre design, costume construction, and makeup at the Southeast Campus. For Westerfield, the decision to make masks to aid healthcare workers was a personal one. “My mother is an ER nurse in Boulder, Colo. and my […]
Coping with COVID-19: How School Administrators are Adjusting to Online Learning
An Interview with Glenpool Assistant Principal Gaylen Urie In the United States, as of March 29, 2020, there are 122,653 cases of COVID-19 and 2,112 deaths at the hands of this looming virus. Students across the nation, and even the world, are finding it increasingly difficult to focus or pour effort into anything, including schoolwork, […]
Academic support services move online
Tulsa Community College’s (TCC) academic support services –tutors, success coaches, research librarians – are ready to serve students just as they were before the coronavirus pandemic. Now, they are just a click and Zoom away. While students spent their Spring Break dealing with the challenges and changes at home, academic support teams scrambled to expand […]