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Walters State Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• As a comprehensive community college, Walters State provides leadership to a geographically large and diverse service area. The primary service area includes the counties of Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Sevier, and Union. The college has a TBR approved expanded service area including other East Tennessee counties for Public Safety and Health programs.
• Walters State provides university parallel programs, programs and courses in business, technical education, health, public safety, and arts and sciences, continuing education and community service programs, personal enrichment, and lifelong learning, cultural enrichment programs, public service programs, advanced, honors, and developmental education programs, programs, services, and activities designed to enhance student opportunities, achievement, personal development, sense of civic responsibility, leadership skills, and general welfare.
• Walters State is accredited by the Commission on Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Walters State student reports rape, abduction (Knoxville News Sentinel)
  posted on November 5, 2009 at 02:31:53 am
  MORRISTOWN - Police at Walters State Community College are on heightened alert after a student reported an abduction and rape, the first such incident in the 40-year history of the school that is known for its public safety program. The 40-year-old woman told police she had gotten out of classes a few minutes early about 4:15 p.m. Monday, and as she arrived at her vehicle a strange man met her ...
• Walters State student claims on campus abduction led to off campus assault (WATE 6 Knoxville)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 09:41:51 pm
  A 40-year-old female student at Walters State Community College told police a man sexually assaulted her off campus after he abducted her on campus Monday afternoon.
• Dual enrollment gets boost at Walters State (Knoxville News Sentinel)
  posted on November 4, 2009 at 02:31:49 am
  Walters State Community College will now have the ability to offer college courses to more area high school students thanks to a $493,000 rural development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant will be used to install "Educast" rooms at the college's Morristown, Sevierville and Greeneville campuses, which will allow them to offer dual enrollment courses to area high schools ...
• Update: Walters State tightens security during rape investigation (WBIR-TV Knoxville)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 08:49:21 pm
  A Walters State Community College student has reported being abducted on campus by a stranger and later raped off-campus.
• Briefs: Commission to hold workshop Oct. 27 (Ashland City Times)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 07:14:29 am
  The Cheatham County Commission will hold a workshop on Oct. 27 to continue discussing revisions to the flood plain ordinance. The workshop will be held at 6 p.m. in the General Sessions Courtroom.

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