Tompkins Cortland Community College students Lana Esho and Casey Smith have been recognized with the 2020 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence by the State University of New York.

Tompkins Cortland Community College President Orinthia Montague has been selected to serve on the New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board. Governor Cuomo announced the creation of the board on Tuesday to help guide the state's re-opening strategy.

Kira Read was born and raised in Cortland. At the age of 38, she decided to become a nurse – enrolling in Tompkins Cortland Community College’s esteemed nursing program and graduating two years later. 

“It was the best thing I have ever done,” she says. “I know that I am doing exactly what I was meant to be doing in life.”