TCC Connect Campus Celebrates New Location with Tours at Official Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Event

FORT WORTH, Texas (May 11. 2017) – Virtual learning has a new address at Tarrant County College. Next week, TCC Connect Campus, responsible for eLearning and Weekend College, is showing off its new open spaces as TCC’s sixth campus.
 
TCC Chancellor Eugene Giovannini and Board of Trustees President Louise Appleman will
be present for the TCC Connect Campus Opening and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony on Thursday, May 18, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The celebration will be preceded by virtual and face-to-face tours of the new location at 444 N. Henderson Street. Parking for TCC Connect is available in the TCC Parking Garage at the corner of Belknap and Cherry Streets.
 
“As the pace of our society continues to quicken, TCC Connect Campus is helping open doors to better career options afforded by higher education in a more accessible way,” said TCC Chancellor Eugene Giovannini, Ed.D. “The opening of this new facility makes it possible for us to better meet the needs of our community.”
 
TCC began offering courses online in 1989. Currently, TCC Connect Campus offers 18
fully online programs and confers five associate degrees and 13 certificate programs online. TCC Connect provides an eLearning course inventory of more than 350 courses and more than 1,100 classes. For the first time, TCC Connect offered classes during Maymester – 20 courses from May 12 to May 26.
 
TCC Connect also is offering 564 classes in two five-week sessions during the summer. Students can register for summer 2017 classes through May 29. Summer classes begin June 5.
 
“TCC Connect Campus is the only accredited virtual campus in Texas and we are ecstatic about our new facilities,” said TCC Connect Campus President Carlos Morales, Ph.D. “Through online and accelerated education, we are intentionally providing students with greater access to education because we understand the flexibility needed by the non-traditional student.”
 
Information about enrolling in TCC Connect is available by contacting TCC Advising at kellie.brown1@tccd.edu or by calling 817-515-8025.