The newly renamed Helping Hands Fund at the College is continuing its expansion for Fall 2020 in an effort to help students navigate the continuously hard-to-predict education environment – and with SUNY matching donations up to $50,000, now is the time to donate and directly help our students...
Annual awards for excellence by faculty and staff at Tompkins Cortland Community College have been announced. Traditionally recognized at commencement, the awards are presented to acknowledge consistently superior professional achievement.
Sandy Moser, professor of...
Under the direction of Graphic Design Program Chair and Associate Professor Christine Shanks, the Tompkins Cortland community is creating digital quilts in support of global protests against police brutality and in support of Black Lives Matter. The project will be featured in the ...
June 1, 2020
Dear Tompkins Cortland Community,
Tompkins Cortland Community College acknowledges the hurt and pain that the black and brown community has endured in our country. The unjustifiable deadly force used to take the lives of Ahmaud Arbrey, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd...
A message from President Orinthia Montague to the Class of 2020
Dear Graduate,
Today is the day. It’s the moment you’ve worked toward in your time here, but also the moment you’ve worked for in some ways your entire life. You have accomplished something concrete – something...
The Tompkins Cortland Community College athletics department will pay tribute to the Class of 2020 on the night the College was to have celebrated commencement. For the first time since the College moved to remote learning and the spring sports seasons were cancelled two months ago, the lights on...
Two Tompkins Cortland Community College students are among the honorees of the SUNY Chancellor’s Undergraduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships for the State of New York. Graduating students Anna Gallegos and Auburn Noce each won a grant of $3,000 to continue their education for a bachelor’s...
While the pandemic has forced a delay to the in-person launch party, the third issue of Ke'lab, the College's student-produced literary and visual arts journal, is now available online. Students worked remotely using project management apps and video conferencing to complete the publication on...
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. The Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, established in 1997, recognizes...
Need a break from the pressures that come with the end of the semester? Take a break and enjoy some Stress Less events!
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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. The advisory board will be chaired by Former...
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...
Since 2012, Tompkins Cortland Community College has recognized a special segment of each graduating class. The “Graduates of Note” designation was created to pay tribute to graduating students who achieved notable success in their respective degree program.
The selection of the honorees...
For many years, the Tompkins Cortland Community College Foundation has had an emergency fund to help students deal with emergency expenses such as unanticipated medical and transportation needs. Now the fund will be expanded to include new types of emergency expenses; namely those associated with...
The Food Bank of the Southern Tier will host a drive-thru Community Food Distribution at the College's main campus in Dryden on Friday, April 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Registration is required and will be open on Wednesday, 4/22 and Thursday, 4/23 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m...
Tompkins Cortland Community College will not celebrate 2020 Commencement as planned on May 21. In a message to graduating students and the campus community, the College said “in acknowledgement of the severity of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the deeply difficult decision to not hold...
In acknowledgement of the severity of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the deeply difficult decision to not hold our 2020 Commencement on Thursday, May 21.
There is no greater pleasure in our year than to witness and celebrate, in-person, the accomplishments of our...
Student Activities Event
Virtual Bingo - simply play bingo and win Gift Cards!
Register in advance to receive a card. Instructions will be emailed approximately 30 minutes before the start of the game.
Tompkins Cortland Community College is pleased to offer STEAM virtual summer camps in 2020 through College partner Black Rocket, a national leader in tech-education. The camps offer cutting-edge courses with topics such as coding, game design,...
Now more than ever, we should all respond to the Census online, by phone, or by mail. Responses are
kept confidential, and it’s easy to respond in 12 non-English languages. The Census count directs federal funding for the next ten years to our community....