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Tunxis Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Tunxis Community College was chartered by the State of Connecticut in 1969 to serve the Bristol-New Britain and Farmington Valley areas. It first opened for classes in October 1970 with 494 students; today approximately 7,000 full- and part-time students attend the College each semester enrolled in credit and continuing education classes. Yet Tunxis is still small enough to offer students individual attention. Since the first graduation in 1972, more than 8,000 persons have received an associate's degree or a certificate from the College.
• Choose from over 60 associate's degree and certificate programs ranging from computers and technology to healthcare, human services, business, accounting, criminal justice, television operations, engineering science, manufacturing, liberal arts, graphic design, and much more. With quality education, flexible scheduling, credit and non-credit courses
• Tunxis offers non-credit and CEU programs, specialized occupational training, and customized employee training. Students have also transferred their credits from Tunxis to bachelor's degree programs at the University of Connecticut, CT State Universities, Trinity College, St. Joseph College, Quinnipiac University, Wesleyan, Yale, Georgetown, Northeastern, and many other universities.
• Tunxis Community College is licensed and accredited by the Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education and accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Incorporated.
• Profile last updated: 04/01/2009.

In the News:

• Photographers focus on details in Tunxis exhibit (The New Britain Herald)
  posted on November 18, 2009 at 03:25:54 am
  FARMINGTON — The bold and brilliant colors dominating the latest photographic art exhibit at Tunxis’ Barnes-Franklin Gallery catch a viewer’s eye so firmly, the main difference between the works of the two featured artists, Jeff Shaffer and Kelli Newton-Costa (both of whom teach photography courses at the college) might escape notice at first.
• Photographers focus on details in Tunxis exhibit (The Bristol Press)
  posted on November 15, 2009 at 12:29:29 pm
  FARMINGTON — The bold and brilliant colors dominating the latest photographic art exhibit at Tunxis’ Barnes-Franklin Gallery catch a viewer’s eye so firmly, the main difference between the works of the two featured artists, Jeff Shaffer and Kelli Newton-Costa (both of whom teach photography courses at the college) might escape notice at first.
• Tunxis expanding services in downtown Bristol (The Bristol Press)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 07:44:50 pm
  BRISTOL — Tunxis Community College’s downtown campus may become home to regular classes as early as the spring semester.
• Design advances for Tunxis $11 million expansion (The New Britain Herald)
  posted on November 1, 2009 at 11:28:00 pm
  BRISTOL — The expansion at Tunxis Community College is moving ahead with the design phase for a new classroom building on Route 6.
• Artists discuss this year’s ‘100 Days’ of summer (The New Britain Herald)
  posted on October 9, 2009 at 10:57:45 pm
  FARMINGTON — Advice for aspiring journalists: if you interview an artist, writer or other creative person, don’t ask, “Where do you get your ideas from?” because you run the risk of a sarcastic answer like, “A mail-order house out in Tulsa.”

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