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June 21, 2017 — Mrs. Tennessee Winner Brittany Graves needed flexibility when choosing her college. Not only is she a student at Cleveland State Community College, she is also a wife, mother, and business owner, so the convenience of online classes is what attracted her to CSCC. Read more about CSCC Offers Flexibility for Mrs. Tennessee Winner Brittany Graves
June 20, 2017 — When CSCC alum Jim Evans enrolled at Cleveland State Community College years ago, he didn’t realize that would be the first step to a productive career in wildlife resources. Fast forward a few decades, Evans is the recent winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tennessee Chapter of the Wildlife Society.
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June 20, 2017 — Members of Cleveland State Community College’s Omega Omicron Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society have a reason to smile after bringing home a plethora of awards from two recent conferences. PTK members and advisors from different chapters competed for recognition in the Society’s Hallmarks of Scholarship, Leadership, Service and Fellowship at the Phi Theta Kappa International Catalyst Conference and the Tennessee Regional Conference, both held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville. Phi Theta Kappa is in the international honor society of the two-year college and the largest honor society in the world. Read more about CSCC’s PTK Omega Omicron Chapter Brings Home Multiple Awards
June 20, 2017 — Cleveland State Community College recently received good news in the form of two new Student Engagement Retention and Success (SERS) Grants. The first grant is targeted toward establishing pathways-focused learning communities for new adult students, while the second is for the CSCC Honors program expansion. Read more about Cleveland State Awarded SERS Grants
June 20, 2017 — Dr. Tim Wilson, Advanced Technology Department Chair at Cleveland State Community College, recently attended the Siemens Technik Akademie in Berlin, Germany where he received the Instructor’s Level II Siemens Mechatronics Systems Certification. The Siemens Mechatronic Systems Certification Program (SMSCP) is a comprehensive industry skills certification offered with partner colleges and universities throughout North America, Asia and Africa. The central theme for this program is the systems approach, a special set of teaching and learning methods developed over 25 years in Siemens technical schools in Germany. Read more about CSCC’s Wilson Receives SMSCP Level II Training in Berlin
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May 08, 2017 — CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Not many graduates can say they remember the speaker at their college graduation, but students at Cleveland State Community College just might. Governor Bill Haslam delivered the keynote address during CSCC’s commencement ceremony on Saturday. The ceremony marked the end of Cleveland State’s 50th anniversary year.
Under Haslam’s leadership, Tennessee is the first state in the nation to offer high school graduates two years of community or technical college free of tuition and fees. According to CSCC President Dr. Bill Seymour, Haslam made good on his “Cleveland State promise” referring to Haslam’s visit to the school two years ago when he greeted students attending under the Tennessee Promise program on their first day of classes. Haslam promised then he would be back to speak at their graduation.
Haslam also addressed the non-traditional students in the class. “We want you to know how excited we are that you made this decision. We’re so inspired by what you have done, we decided to take Tennessee Promise and expand it so that now in Tennessee, no matter what age you are starting this fall, you can come back to school absolutely free of charge.”
At one point during the ceremony, Seymour asked that all the Tennessee Promise students come to the front for a special picture with the governor. He later presented Governor Haslam with a signed copy of former CSCC administrator’s book, Cleveland State Community College: The First Fifty Years, 1967-2017.
“There is a verse in Proverbs that says as iron sharpen iron, so one man sharpens another,” stated Haslam. “Life is really hard. You are going to need people around you to encourage you and sometimes, correct you.”
He continued, “Thirty years from now, when you are at someone else’s graduation, you will be thinking, ‘I learned how to work hard at Cleveland State, and it has been fruitful for me all of my life.”’
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May 04, 2017 — Cleveland State Community College was honored with 2016 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. Read more about CSCC Honored with Tree Campus USA® recognition
May 04, 2017 — Cleveland State Community College is holding its Spring 2017 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 6 at 10 a.m. in the L. Quentin Lane Gymnasium and will be welcoming a familiar face to the college—Governor Bill Haslam is going to be the keynote speaker for the occasion. Read more about Governor Haslam to Address Graduates at CSCC’s 2017 Commencement Ceremony
May 03, 2017 — It’s time to cultivate your future with Cleveland State Community College’s new agriculture programs offered at the CSCC Athens Center! CSCC now offers an Associate of Science in Agriculture or Agribusiness, an Associate of Applied Science in Business with an Agribusiness Concentration and an Agribusiness Certificate.
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January 19, 2017 — Some important announcements were made at Cleveland State Community College on Thursday. In the college’s “Growing Our Future” press conference held in the L. Quentin Lane Gymnasium, Dr. Bill Seymour and other representatives from CSCC shared plans for new athletic sports programs, enhanced academic programs and a significant financial contribution which will result in the first named academic program at the college. Read more about Growing Our Future
