November 12, 2025

The TCC Connection

Tulsa Community College Student Newspaper
Random News

Category: Northeast Campus

Campus Connect Highlights Resources, Advice for New and Continuing TCC Students 

Jennifer Champion, health promotion coordinator at the Wellness Services office, holds trivia entries during Campus Connect. Door prizes included a drawing for a free T-shirt. (Photo by MJ Nyamdavaa)  Tulsa Community College hosted its fall Campus Connect event at the Northeast Campus on Aug. 26. The program brought students face-to-face with departments and community partners offering resources to help them succeed.  The annual event, organized by Student Life and Wellness Services, featured tables…

Read More
Mj Nyamdavaa08 mins

Fuel the Future: A College-Wide Food Drive Initiative at Tulsa Community College 

The Tulsa Community College (TCC) Student Life operates a Fuel Pantry at each campus where enrolled students can access food and hygiene products free of charge.  It has been an indispensable resource to countless students over the years. However, in an unexpected turn of events, the supply began to deplete slowly. This did not go…

Read More
Miriam Nantumbwe07 mins

Get Published in ‘Tulsa Review,’ TCC’s Literary Journal for Students and Emerging Writers 

“Tulsa Review” has published 10 issues since its inception in 2014. It is a student-run, online literary journal published each year by Tulsa Community College and funded by the TCC Foundation and the TCC English Department.   Stated on the publication’s About page, “Our mission is to place the bold, unique voices of TCC students alongside…

Read More
Ethan Gray05 mins

A New Leaf Fosters Independence And Employment For Young Adults

In the Tulsa metro area, research shows that 29,000 people have developmental disabilities or autism. Of those individuals, eighty-five percent are unemployed, with 74% living with their families for their entire lives.   Mary Ogle, CEO of A New Leaf, saw a need to develop real-life skills for individuals with developmental disabilities or autism. The Hardesty…

Read More
Semhar Asfaha07 mins

Cyber Skills Center’s “Afrofuturism” and The Path to a Tech-Immersed Tulsa 

On July 8, 2022, Tulsa Community College (TCC) and Tulsa Innovation Labs (TIL), in partnership with edX, the global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., and SkillStorm opened the Cyber Skills Center (CSC) in Tulsa. The center will serve as an educational facility for adult students seeking cyber security and data science careers at no…

Read More
Mariia Shevchenko08 mins

Shannon Schwaebler is here for adult students entering the Tulsa workforce 

Shannon Schwaebler felt “lost” in college, and now as the new Director of Continuing Education, she wants to accommodate adult students in achieving their dreams at Tulsa Community College (TCC).  On July 25, Schwaebler became the new director of Continuing Education. In a small hallway past the Starbucks Cafe on the Northeast Campus, the Continuing Education…

Read More
Mariia Shevchenko06 mins

Review: “Shrek the Musical” brings laughs, message of hope 

If you are reading this, I’m going to assume you know who Shrek is. But have you heard him sing?   That is what audience members were treated to at performances of “Shrek the Musical” put on by CRAFT Productions of Oklahoma at Tulsa Community College’s VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education (PACE). The show ran…

Read More
Sarah Ray010 mins

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…

Read More
Mariia Shevchenko08 mins

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),…

Read More
Mariia Shevchenko07 mins