Profile: Truckee Meadows Community College

About Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC)

Truckee Meadows Community College is continually growing and finding new ways to prepare students for the real world. Offering academic and university transfer, occupational training, career enhancement workshops and classes just for fun, TMCC is the fastest growing college in northern Nevada.

TMCC serves over 12,000 students with programs leading to associate degrees and certificates in more than 40 academic and occupational areas.

TMCC Offers Our Students Choices

• Variety—more than 50 degree and certificate programs
• Convenience—at more than 40 sites countywide.
• Flexible schedules—classes taught weekdays or weekends, in the daytime or evening.
• Class types—Internet, lectures, laboratory, hands-on, television, one-day workshops.
• Support services—everything from free tutoring to job placement assistance to single-parent support.
• Affordability—just over $50 per credit and Nevada senior citizens attend tuition-free!

TMCC Mission

Truckee Meadows Community College provides access for lifelong learning opportunities to improve the quality of life for our diverse community. The college anticipates and responds to educational needs of individuals to achieve their goals, aspirations and dreams.

TMCC creates a supportive, intellectually and culturally dynamic environment by offering the following:

• General education programs
• Transfer degree programs
• Developmental education programs
• Occupational/technical degrees and programs
• Customized job training
• Continuing education
• Recreational programs and cultural events
• Student and academic support services

TMCC Strategic Goals

1. Achieving Student Success:
   To foster an institutional culture that ensures easy access to and participation in programs and services essential to students' academic and personal achievement.
2. Achieving Academic Excellence:
   To foster an institutional culture that values, demands and supports excellence in teaching and learning.
3. Diversity:
   To foster a mutually respectful academic community inclusive of men and women of all generations and ability levels, diverse ideological perspectives, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and sexual orientations that is dedicated to equitable practices and values diversity.
4. Technology:
   To develop a technology infrastructure that provides faculty, staff and students with the best practices of the industry.
5. Strategic Partnerships:
   To expand and to forge new, mutually beneficial partnerships, ensuring the vitality and relevance of our curriculum and programs, distinguishing TMCC as an integral and influential member of the community.
6. Facilities:
   To develop and maintain aesthetically pleasing, safe and environmentally friendly facilities and physical resources supportive of the teaching and learning experience.
7. Welcoming and Supportive Environment:
   To enhance and ensure a welcoming environment that is socially supportive and physically pleasing and provides opportunities for personal growth.
8. Finance and Institutional Effectiveness:
   To achieve college goals through responsible human and fiscal resource development and management.