Trinity Valley Community College

Trinity Valley Community College

Type	Community college
Established	1946
President	Dr. Glendon Forgey
Administrative staff	N/A
Undergraduates	7,743
Location	Athens (main campus), Texas, United States 32°11′41″N 95°51′28″W / 32.194814°N 95.857774°W / 32.194814; -95.857774Coordinates: 32°11′41″N 95°51′28″W / 32.194814°N 95.857774°W / 32.194814; -95.857774
Campus	Rural
Endowment	N/A
Colors	Red and white
Mascot	Cardinals
Website	Official Website

Trinity Valley Community College (TVCC) is a community college based in Athens, Texas. It has four campuses serving three counties in the southeast of the state.

TVCC operates four campuses serving the Texas counties of Anderson, Henderson, and Kaufman, southeast of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex:

• The Henderson County Campus, which also serves as TVCC's headquarters, is in Athens.
• The Anderson County Campus is in Palestine. Texas Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples is a former faculty member at the Anderson campus.
• The Kaufman County Campus is in Terrell.
• The TVCC Health Science Center is in Kaufman. This campus is adjacent to Presbyterian Hospital of Kaufman and is dedicated specifically to healthcare courses. (General courses must be taken at one of the other campuses in the TVCC system.) It also operates a distance learning program for the University of Texas at Arlington's RN to BSN program.

History

TVCC was founded in 1946 as Henderson County Junior College in Athens, the county seat. The current name, adopted in September 1986, was taken from the Trinity River, which bisects the region. By that time it had expanded to serve residents of more than one county.

TVCC began its expansion to a multi-site campus in 1969 when it began to offer courses at a nearby Texas Department of Criminal Justice unit. In 1972 TVCC started offering courses in Palestine (the Anderson County seat), and in 1975 opened a separate campus facility three miles north of town. In 1973 TVCC started offering courses in Terrell (its first expansion into neighboring Kaufman County) and opened a separate campus facility there in 1986. Finally, in 1983 TVCC opened its first specialized campus, the TVCC Health Science Center in Kaufman (the Kaufman County seat).

Notable alumni and students

• Margene Adkins, professional football player in the NFL ^[1]
• Darren Benson, professional football player in the NFL ^[2]
• Matt Bryant, placekicker for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League^[3]
• Rock Cartwright, professional football player in the NFL ^[4]
• Albert Connell, professional football player in the NFL ^[5]
• Paul Dawson, college football All-American.^[6]
• Anthony Dickerson, professional football player in the NFL ^[7]
• Todd Fowler, professional football player in the USFL and NFL ^[8]
• Al Harris, professional football player in the NFL^[9]
• Robert Jackson, professional football player in the NFL ^[10]
• Shawn Kemp, professional basketball player in the NBA 1989-2003 ^[11]
• Roger Muñoz, member of the Nicaraguan national basketball team^[12]
• John Randle, professional football player in the NFL and Hall of Famer^[13]
• James Scott, professional football player in the NFL ^[14]
• Stuart Spitzer, surgeon in Kaufman, Texas, and incoming Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for Kaufman and Henderson counties^[15]
• Nick Van Exel, professional basketball player in the NBA 1993-2006 ^[16]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trinity Valley Community College.

• TVCC's main web site

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