Cuyahoga Community College

{{Short description|Public college in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2009}} {{Infobox university | name = Cuyahoga Community College | other_name = Tri-C | native_name = | image = Cuyahoga Community College seal.svg | image_upright = 0.6 | image_alt = | caption = | latin_name = | motto = | motto_lang = | mottoeng = | established = {{start date and age|1963}} | closed = | type = Public community college | parent = University System of Ohio | academic_affiliations = Space-grant | endowment = $112.1 million (2025)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2025-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2025 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2025 Endowment Market Value |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 17, 2026 |format=XLSX}}</ref> | budget = | officer_in_charge = | chairman = | chancellor = | president = Michael Baston | vice-president = | superintendent = | provost = | vice_chancellor = | rector = | principal = | dean = | director = | head_label = | head = | academic_staff = | administrative_staff = | students = 15,764<ref>{{cite web | title = College Navigator - Cuyahoga Community College District | language = en | access-date = 2024-08-12 | publisher = National Center for Education Statistics | url = https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?s=OH&id=202356}}</ref> (fall 2022) | undergrad = | postgrad = | doctoral = | other = | city = Cuyahoga County, Ohio | country = United States | coor = | campus = | former_names = | free_label = | free = | colors = {{color box|#008c95}} {{color box|black}} {{color box|#53565A}} Teal, black, gray<br /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=GRAPHIC STANDARDS AND STYLE GUIDE |url=https://www.tri-c.edu/administrative-departments/marketing-and-communications/documents/Tri-C-Graphic-Standards-and-Style-Guide.pdf |access-date=May 28, 2026}}</ref> | sports_nickname = Triceratops<br />(previously Challengers) | mascot = Stomp the Triceratops<ref>{{cite press release|title=Big News: Stomp the Triceratops Makes Debut|url=https://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/big-news-stomp-the-triceratops-makes-debut.html|first=John|last=Horton|publisher=Cuyahoga Community College|date=2019-09-09|access-date=2019-09-09|archive-date=2019-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916204646/https://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/big-news-stomp-the-triceratops-makes-debut.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Tri-C Announces 'Triceratops' as New Mascot|url=http://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/tri-c-announces-triceratops-as-new-mascot.html|first=John|last=Horton|publisher=Cuyahoga Community College|date=2018-10-05|access-date=2018-10-11|archive-date=2018-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011214731/http://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/tri-c-announces-triceratops-as-new-mascot.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> | sporting_affiliations = NJCAA<br />OCCAC | website = {{URL|http://www.tri-c.edu}} | logo = Cuyahoga Community College logo.svg | logo_size = 100px | footnotes = }}

'''Cuyahoga Community College''' ('''Tri-C''') is a public community college in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1963, it is the oldest and largest public community college within the state. Not until 1961 had Ohio permitted the establishment of community colleges<ref>Dorsey, Ray. "Colleges Plan Gets House OK." Cleveland Plain Dealer, 29 June 1961, 1</ref> and Ohio was then one of only four U.S. states without them.<ref>"Vested Interests and Community Colleges." Phi Delta Kappan, May 1961, 366.</ref>

Tri-C schedules on the semester basis, and offers over 1,000 courses in associate degree programs through traditional classroom settings as well as distance learning services and its flagship offering known as Cable College. Cable College has offered classes live through the Cleveland area cable companies since the early 1990s. The institution promotes academic advancement through transfer articulation agreements with four-year colleges and universities. Tri-C is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.

==Locations== [[File:Cuyahoga Community College, Highland Hills.jpg|thumb|Part of Tri-C's Eastern Campus in Highland Hills]] Cuyahoga Community College operates a multi-campus college district in Northeast Ohio. With Cuyahoga County as its primary service area, Tri-C serves Cleveland and the surrounding communities. The four primary campuses include the Eastern Campus in Highland Hills, the Metropolitan Campus of Downtown Cleveland's Campus District, Western Campus in Parma and Parma Heights, and Westshore campus in Westlake. Tri-C houses its district administrative services at a separate location in Cleveland.

An additional facility, the Brunswick University Center in Brunswick, operates as an extension of the Western Campus. The college also operates two Corporate College business training facilities: Corporate College East in Warrensville Heights and Corporate College West in Westlake. Other locations in downtown Cleveland include the Tri-C's Workforce and Economic Development Division (based in the Unified Technologies Center) and the Hospitality Management Center at Public Square.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tri-c.edu/campuses/Pages/default.aspx |title=Campuses|access-date=2012-01-09}}</ref>

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Library and Archives are located at the Metropolitan Campus' Gill and Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Library and Archives {{!}} Rock & Roll Hall of Fame|url=https://www.rockhall.com/library|access-date=2022-01-02|website=www.rockhall.com}}</ref>

==Athletics and student life== Cuyahoga Community College has the following sports activities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tri-c.edu/athletics/|title=Tri-C Athletics, Sports: Cleveland Ohio|website=www.tri-c.edu|access-date=2017-03-15}}</ref> *Men's Baseball *Men's Basketball *Women's Basketball *thumb|Student Services BuildingWomen's Cross Country & Track *Women's Softball *Women's Volleyball *Men's Soccer The college also has a variety of activities ranging from involvement in the campus governance systems to fine arts and entertainment programming, and membership in student organizations and clubs.

Cuyahoga Community College has won the following NJCAA national titles:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.njcaa.org/schmain.cfm?sid=34&divid=0&gender=m&slid=0&menu=11&schmenu=6&cid=1393 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20040117041326/http://www.njcaa.org/schmain.cfm?sid=34&divid=0&gender=m&slid=0&menu=11&schmenu=6&cid=1393 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-01-17 |title=College Home Page For Cuyahoga Community College |publisher=NJCAA |access-date=2012-04-01 }}</ref> *Men's Wrestling: 1976 *Men's Basketball: 2004 (Division II)

==Arts== Since 1980 Cuyahoga Community College has hosted the Tri-C JazzFest.<ref>{{cite news |first=Chuck|last=Yarborough |title='Hamilton' star Leslie Odom Jr. to help kick off 39th Tri-C JazzFest|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2018/01/hamilton_star_leslie_odom_jr_t.html|work=The Plain Dealer |date=2018-01-19 |access-date=2018-10-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Tri-C JazzFest |url=http://www.tri-c.edu/jazzfest/about-jazzfest.html |title=About JazzFest |publisher=Cuyahoga Community College |access-date=2018-10-05 |archive-date=2018-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005194952/http://www.tri-c.edu/jazzfest/about-jazzfest.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Presidents== *Charles Chapman (1962-1973)<ref name=pd>{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Farkas |title=Tri-C's First President Charles Chapman Impressed by School's Growth |url=http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/05/cuyahoga_community_colleges_fi.html |work=The Plain Dealer |date=2012-05-20 |access-date=2014-07-30 }}</ref> *Nolen Ellison (1974-1991)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Farkas |first=Karen |last2=clevel |last3=.com |date=2013-08-20 |title=Cuyahoga Community College's presidents gather at convocation |url=https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2013/08/cuyahoga_community_colleges_pr.html |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=cleveland |language=en}}</ref> *Jerry Sue Thornton (1992-2013)<ref name=":0" /> *Alex Johnson (2013-2022)<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Alex Johnson to Become Fourth President of Cuyahoga Community College |url=http://www.tri-c.edu/news/Pages/AlexJohnsontoBecomeFourthPresident.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140828194614/http://www.tri-c.edu/news/Pages/AlexJohnsontoBecomeFourthPresident.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 28, 2014 |publisher=Cuyahoga Community College |date=May 14, 2013 |access-date=August 31, 2014 }}</ref> *Michael A. Baston (2022-Present)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moujaes |first=Anthony |date=2022-05-04 |title=Tri-C Selects Michael A. Baston as College President |url=https://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/tri-c-selects-michael-a-baston-as-college-president.html |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=www.tri-c.edu |language=en}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==<!-- Please respect alphabetical order --> * Halle Berry, Academy Award Winning actress<ref>{{cite web|title=Halle Berry Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/halle-berry-9542339|work=Biography.com|publisher=A+E Television Networks, LLC.|access-date=28 October 2011}}</ref> *Shontel Brown, U.S. Congresswoman<ref>{{Cite web|last=Categories|first=All|last2=Tri-C|last3=Campus|first3=Eastern|last4=Campus|first4=Metropolitan|last5=Campus|first5=Western|last6=Campus|first6=Westshore|last7=Arts|first7=Creative|last8=Careers|first8=Health|last9=Hospitality|title=County Democratic Party Chair Started Her Path at Tri-C: Cleveland Ohio|url=https://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/county-democratic-party-chair-started-her-path-at-tri-c.html|access-date=2022-01-02|website=www.tri-c.edu|language=en|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806102409/https://www.tri-c.edu/news-and-events/news/county-democratic-party-chair-started-her-path-at-tri-c.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Jerome Caja, Performance artist<ref>*{{cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-jerome-caja-12295|title=Oral history interview with Jerome Caja|last=Karlstrom|first=Paul J.|date=September 29, 1995|publisher=Smithsonian Institution | work=Archives of American Art|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref> * Darrin Chapin, Major League Baseball player<ref name=BR>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=620ed05f |title=List of Major League Baseball Draftees |publisher=Baseball Reference |access-date=2014-12-02}}</ref> * Wayne Dawson, News Broadcaster<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dean|first=Wendy|year=2016|title=Wayne Dawson's Future Began at Tri-C|journal=The Voice|publisher=Cuyahoga Community College|volume=Fall|issue=4|url=http://www.cccvoice.com/2016/11/08/wayne-dawsons-future-began-tri-c/|access-date=24 January 2018}}</ref> * Frank G. Jackson, Mayor of Cleveland <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/mayor/about.html |title=Profile at Cleveland's official website |access-date=2006-01-07 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220040943/http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/mayor/about.html |archive-date=December 20, 2008 }}</ref> * Dominique Moceanu, 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kushlis|first1=Jennifer|title=Moceanu vaults back after five-year break|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/summer/2005-07-19-moceanu-gymnastics-comeback_x.htm|website=USA Today|access-date=December 2, 2014|date=July 19, 2005}}</ref> * Dale Mohorcic, Major League Baseball player<ref name=BR/> * Jeff Shaw, Major League Baseball player<ref name=BR/> * Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons, NBA<ref>{{cite news|last=Berkow|first=Ira|title=After Hair-Raising Victory, a Hero's Welcome|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/sports/pro-basketball-after-hair-raising-victory-a-hero-s-welcome.html?src=pm|access-date=28 October 2011|newspaper=New York Times|date=4 July 2004}}</ref>

==See also== *List of community colleges

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.tri-c.edu/ }}

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