Tarrant County College District (TCCD) is a publiccommunity college in Tarrant County, Texas. Commonly known as Tarrant County College, TCC offers associate degrees and certificates, academic transfer programs, technical and occupational programs, continuing education, and community classes.[3]
The district operates 5 physical campuses in the Fort Worth metropolitan area and an online campus.[4] As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of TCCD includes all of Tarrant County.[5]
History
Tarrant County College District was founded as Tarrant County Junior College in 1965[6]. On July 31 of that year, voters approved a countywide bond election to create the junior college district and elected the first seven-member Board of Trustees.
Among the first leaders at the new college were Joe B. Rushing, May Owen. and J. Ardis Bell.[7] The new district acquired land for campuses soon after: a site in south Fort Worth (donated by the federal government) for the first campus and another in Hurst for the second campus. Construction began in 1966.
The South Campus opened in fall 1967 with an enrollment of more than 4,200 students, the largest opening enrollment for a community college in the U.S. at that time.[8] The next year, the Northeast Campus opened (though its first classes were temporarily held at South Campus due to construction delays).[9]
The district continued to expand in the following decades: Northwest Campus[10] near Lake Worth opened in 1976, Southeast Campus[11] in Arlington opened in 1996, and the Trinity River Campus[12] in downtown Fort Worth opened in 2009. The newest campus, TCC Connect, was established in 2015 as a fully online campus.[13]
In 1999, the college's name was changed from Tarrant County Junior College to Tarrant County College.
Collegiate high schools
Tarrant County College offers several dual-credit programs, known as collegiate high schools, that offer an associate degree along with a high school diploma.
Marine Creek Collegiate High School (Northwest Campus)
Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences (Trinity River Campus)
TCC South Campus – FWISD Early Collegiate High School (South Campus)
Collegiate Academy at Tarrant County College (Northeast Campus)
Arlington Collegiate High School (Southeast Campus)
Portions of some school districts extend into other counties; only high schools in Tarrant County are listed here Aledo ISD, Burleson ISD, and Godley ISD serve sections of Tarrant County, but they operate no high schools in it.
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