Tulsa Community College, Dr. Dean VanTrease and Dr. Laura Walker on Channel 6 News Video, date unknown, No. 1
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A recording of Tulsa Community College's Dr. Dean VanTrease and Dr. Laura Walker with Channel 6's Rick Wells on Tulsa Community College's name change from Tulsa Junior College and the roll of community colleges in education and the community. Dr. Dean VanTrease was Tulsa Junior College's first Vice President and second President. Dr. Laura Walker, the previous Director of the International Language Center. The video is likely from the mid-1990s.
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CLIP 1
[Rick] Alrighty, welcome back to the program. It is 6:14 on Monday morning. This week is National Community College week this week, and we Community Colleges everywhere have a three-fold mission. It’s higher level education, reinforce workforce training, and development in community service. Dr. Dean VanTrease is here, he’s president of Tulsa Community College. And Dr. Laura Walker also, Director of the International Language Center. Good morning to you all.
[Laura] Good morning.
[Rick] Thanks for coming in. We’ve been talking during the break. Everywhere you go, Dr. VanTrease, it seems like there is a Tulsa Community College branch someplace.
[Dean] Well we have four of them around town, and a Conference Center, so we are heavily involved. We’re also working closely with OSU, Tulsa Now, and 2+2. We’ll be offering some classes on their campus, probably next spring. We’ll be offering classes, Freshmen/Sophomore classes for North Eastern State University of Broken Arrow, on their campus. We’re doing a lot of things.
[Rick] Well, and I guess that’s what community colleges are there for. I remember it’s been Tulsa Junior College for a long time, but the “Community College”, just the name change implies a much broader mission than just two years of college.
[Dean] Yeah. We are involved in a lot of things right now, and it’s good. It’s amazing. I think back, and we started with about 2,800 students, and it’s come a long way. But, truthfully, we have a long way to go with Tulsa Community College in this area as well as additional higher education.
[Rick] One of the things we want to talk about, certainly, this morning with Dr. Walker is about all of these flags and this International Language Center. What it does, specifically, and how it helps people in Tulsa.
[Laura] The International Language Center, I think, responds to the needs of the community. As you know, Tulsa is a very international, very global community. Very much involved with the global economy and workforce development in regards to internationals. NAFTA, for instance, had a great presence here in Tulsa, brought in a great many Hispanics. With that increase of population, the Hispanics, there has been a need for social services. So we’ve tried to respond to that need by providing training for people, let’s say, in the health care areas, also to the police department as well as individual, independent companies who are hiring Hispanics. At the same time we offer English as a Second Language so that internationals who are coming into the city can certainly learn English, but become productive citizens.
[Rick] Well anybody who’s getting into business now, you can’t – it’s very difficult to ignore the rest of the world. And this certainly will help people broaden their focus a little bit, and understand the kind of things they’re going to have to get into to be successful.
[Laura] Exactly.
[Rick] Now you’ve got a big production coming up. I’m really changing the subject, now, but not only do you have all of those campuses and all of that activity, but you’ve got a wonderful theatre. Out there on Highway 169, and it seems to be busy all the time too. Big production coming up.
[Dean] Yes, Nunsense is the latest one coming up and it’s a story about a Sister – You may have performed in that sometime Rick, I don’t know –
[Rick] (laughing) No, but I’ve seen it and it’s very entertaining. And another opportunity for us to enjoy the Performing Arts Center for Education out there on 169. Go see a wonderful production there. It’s April 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 8pm, and April 25 in the afternoon. And you can get tickets for that – in fact we’re going to give tickets away later on this week – but you can get tickets by calling the theatre out there.
[Dean] Well thank you, we appreciate the plug. That Performing Arts Center out there, by the way, is booked almost 300 days out, so there’s a real need for that.
[Rick] Well it’s obviously filled a very big need, as you said. Thank you all very much for coming in, and kind of helping us get Community College Week started. Kind of get people to focus on Tulsa Community College, and the things it does.
[Laura] Thank you.
[Dean] Thanks. Thank you.
[Rick] 595-7834 is the telephone number you can call to get information about the programs and other things that are going on there. Or you can log on to Tulsa Dot CC Dot OK Dot US, that’ll get you in there too. Thank you all very much. Leanne?
[Rick] Alrighty, welcome back to the program. It is 6:14 on Monday morning. This week is National Community College week this week, and we Community Colleges everywhere have a three-fold mission. It’s higher level education, reinforce workforce training, and development in community service. Dr. Dean VanTrease is here, he’s president of Tulsa Community College. And Dr. Laura Walker also, Director of the International Language Center. Good morning to you all.
[Laura] Good morning.
[Rick] Thanks for coming in. We’ve been talking during the break. Everywhere you go, Dr. VanTrease, it seems like there is a Tulsa Community College branch someplace.
[Dean] Well we have four of them around town, and a Conference Center, so we are heavily involved. We’re also working closely with OSU, Tulsa Now, and 2+2. We’ll be offering some classes on their campus, probably next spring. We’ll be offering classes, Freshmen/Sophomore classes for North Eastern State University of Broken Arrow, on their campus. We’re doing a lot of things.
[Rick] Well, and I guess that’s what community colleges are there for. I remember it’s been Tulsa Junior College for a long time, but the “Community College”, just the name change implies a much broader mission than just two years of college.
[Dean] Yeah. We are involved in a lot of things right now, and it’s good. It’s amazing. I think back, and we started with about 2,800 students, and it’s come a long way. But, truthfully, we have a long way to go with Tulsa Community College in this area as well as additional higher education.
[Rick] One of the things we want to talk about, certainly, this morning with Dr. Walker is about all of these flags and this International Language Center. What it does, specifically, and how it helps people in Tulsa.
[Laura] The International Language Center, I think, responds to the needs of the community. As you know, Tulsa is a very international, very global community. Very much involved with the global economy and workforce development in regards to internationals. NAFTA, for instance, had a great presence here in Tulsa, brought in a great many Hispanics. With that increase of population, the Hispanics, there has been a need for social services. So we’ve tried to respond to that need by providing training for people, let’s say, in the health care areas, also to the police department as well as individual, independent companies who are hiring Hispanics. At the same time we offer English as a Second Language so that internationals who are coming into the city can certainly learn English, but become productive citizens.
[Rick] Well anybody who’s getting into business now, you can’t – it’s very difficult to ignore the rest of the world. And this certainly will help people broaden their focus a little bit, and understand the kind of things they’re going to have to get into to be successful.
[Laura] Exactly.
[Rick] Now you’ve got a big production coming up. I’m really changing the subject, now, but not only do you have all of those campuses and all of that activity, but you’ve got a wonderful theatre. Out there on Highway 169, and it seems to be busy all the time too. Big production coming up.
[Dean] Yes, Nunsense is the latest one coming up and it’s a story about a Sister – You may have performed in that sometime Rick, I don’t know –
[Rick] (laughing) No, but I’ve seen it and it’s very entertaining. And another opportunity for us to enjoy the Performing Arts Center for Education out there on 169. Go see a wonderful production there. It’s April 20, 21, 27, and 28 at 8pm, and April 25 in the afternoon. And you can get tickets for that – in fact we’re going to give tickets away later on this week – but you can get tickets by calling the theatre out there.
[Dean] Well thank you, we appreciate the plug. That Performing Arts Center out there, by the way, is booked almost 300 days out, so there’s a real need for that.
[Rick] Well it’s obviously filled a very big need, as you said. Thank you all very much for coming in, and kind of helping us get Community College Week started. Kind of get people to focus on Tulsa Community College, and the things it does.
[Laura] Thank you.
[Dean] Thanks. Thank you.
[Rick] 595-7834 is the telephone number you can call to get information about the programs and other things that are going on there. Or you can log on to Tulsa Dot CC Dot OK Dot US, that’ll get you in there too. Thank you all very much. Leanne?
CLIP 2
[Terry] This is Community College Week all across the country, but, of course, we’ve got a great community college her in Tulsa so DC is paying them a visit this morning.
[DC] I sure am. We’re at TCC West campus; we’re actually in their Childhood Development Program Center right now. I want to give you some interesting Tulsa Community College facts. Now, this is probably something a lot of people didn’t know. Did you know that it is the largest two year college in our state, and it is in the top 2% nationally in Associate Degrees awarded. So something to be very proud about in our TCC programs that we have here in Tulsa. And I’m also proud to introduce Ellen Wilk, she’s the coordinator for the Childhood Development Center. Hi Ellen!
[Ellen] Hi. How are you this morning?
[DC] I am good. Tell us a little bit about what goes on, this is of course just one small part of TCC, but what happens here?
[Ellen] This is a Child Development Program for children six weeks old to four years of age, and in this setting the children are grouped developmentally. So the classrooms, we don’t move the children up as they change in age, but as they change developmentally.
[DC] And that’s really important isn’t it?
[Ellen] Yes, it is. And in our oldest groups of age 3, 4, and 5 we have multi-aged grouping.
[DC] Now let’s talk a little bit about – the neat thing about the program you have here is not only do you train people to take care of kids, but it’s also a great place to bring your kids, isn’t it?
[Ellen] Exactly. It provides a great community service, and is also the laboratory setting for students in the academic program.
[DC] Now, do you guys have slots for kids? Can people still call to get in?
[Ellen] What we do is maintain a waiting list for the younger children. Right now we have some openings for the 4 year olds during the summer.
[DC] And what about students? When does the next program start on that?
[Ellen] Well, their program is actually ongoing all the time. There will be some short courses beginning in May for people getting their CDA credential, which is a Child Development credential. And there will be Associate programs, classes really, throughout the summer.
[DC] And it’s important for people to know that you guys are actually Nationally Accredited, aren’t you?
[Ellen] Yes we are.
[DC] Good information to have if you’re a parent.
[Ellen] Exactly.
[DC] All right, thanks so much Ellen. Terry and Frank as you can see, this is just one thing that TCC offers and it’s a fabulous program if you want to put your kids in a program, or maybe you want to learn to become a child care worker yourself.
[Frank] Absolutely. You know the one you’re at is so pretty. The outside is – looks like a major university.
[DC] It is a fabulous new campus here.
[Frank] It is very pretty. Well thanks, DC. We’ll see more with you and about Community Colleges in just a little bit. But first we want to tell you that the Tulsa Community College phone number is 595 7834. And as always you can log on to something. Here it’s Tulsa Dot CC Dot OK Dot US. So we’ll have that again later on.
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[Terry] This is Community College Week all across the country, but, of course, we’ve got a great community college her in Tulsa so DC is paying them a visit this morning.
[DC] I sure am. We’re at TCC West campus; we’re actually in their Childhood Development Program Center right now. I want to give you some interesting Tulsa Community College facts. Now, this is probably something a lot of people didn’t know. Did you know that it is the largest two year college in our state, and it is in the top 2% nationally in Associate Degrees awarded. So something to be very proud about in our TCC programs that we have here in Tulsa. And I’m also proud to introduce Ellen Wilk, she’s the coordinator for the Childhood Development Center. Hi Ellen!
[Ellen] Hi. How are you this morning?
[DC] I am good. Tell us a little bit about what goes on, this is of course just one small part of TCC, but what happens here?
[Ellen] This is a Child Development Program for children six weeks old to four years of age, and in this setting the children are grouped developmentally. So the classrooms, we don’t move the children up as they change in age, but as they change developmentally.
[DC] And that’s really important isn’t it?
[Ellen] Yes, it is. And in our oldest groups of age 3, 4, and 5 we have multi-aged grouping.
[DC] Now let’s talk a little bit about – the neat thing about the program you have here is not only do you train people to take care of kids, but it’s also a great place to bring your kids, isn’t it?
[Ellen] Exactly. It provides a great community service, and is also the laboratory setting for students in the academic program.
[DC] Now, do you guys have slots for kids? Can people still call to get in?
[Ellen] What we do is maintain a waiting list for the younger children. Right now we have some openings for the 4 year olds during the summer.
[DC] And what about students? When does the next program start on that?
[Ellen] Well, their program is actually ongoing all the time. There will be some short courses beginning in May for people getting their CDA credential, which is a Child Development credential. And there will be Associate programs, classes really, throughout the summer.
[DC] And it’s important for people to know that you guys are actually Nationally Accredited, aren’t you?
[Ellen] Yes we are.
[DC] Good information to have if you’re a parent.
[Ellen] Exactly.
[DC] All right, thanks so much Ellen. Terry and Frank as you can see, this is just one thing that TCC offers and it’s a fabulous program if you want to put your kids in a program, or maybe you want to learn to become a child care worker yourself.
[Frank] Absolutely. You know the one you’re at is so pretty. The outside is – looks like a major university.
[DC] It is a fabulous new campus here.
[Frank] It is very pretty. Well thanks, DC. We’ll see more with you and about Community Colleges in just a little bit. But first we want to tell you that the Tulsa Community College phone number is 595 7834. And as always you can log on to something. Here it’s Tulsa Dot CC Dot OK Dot US. So we’ll have that again later on.
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Clip 3
[Terry] …offers a lot of different opportunities, maybe some that you haven’t thought of before. That’s why DC is checking out TCC for Community College Week.
[DC] I sure am. I’m at TCC West this morning. We’re in the Childhood Development Center. We talked a little bit about that earlier, but we want to talk a little about arts and the Arts Program. And who better to talk to me about that than Barry Epperly? How are you?
[Barry] I’m just fine, and good morning DC.
[DC] Now talk to me a little bit, there’s big goings on with the Symphonia and TCC.
[Barry] Big goings on. The Symphonia and TCC, it’s becoming the signature symphony now. We’re moving, as a resident orchestra for TCC. Two big programs. We will remain who we were and who we are, we’ll be doing performances at the performing arts center – the VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education at 81st and Mingo. But also more outreach and education. That really is one of our main goals. We’ve been doing education for maybe ten years at least. Many of our people will be teaching, adjunct teachers, and working especially one on one in lessons and things like that. But we also hope to have an outreach to the public schools, so that we may do some co-hiring, some co-teaching, some things like that.
[DC] Mhm. Lots of things going on. Also the PACE is expanding, but I also want to get into the Hallsey program. Tell us about that.
[Barry] Well two parts of it. First of all the PACE is expanding – 35,000 square feet added. A new performance area, new practice rooms, etc. Jim Hallsey has for a long time been just a guru of management in the Arts. When I first came to Tulsa 35 years ago, he had the Jim Hallsey Company, the stable - Roy Clark, The Oakridge Boys – just a stable of wonderful folks. We now have his institute as a part of TCC. And you know the largest export of the United States is entertainment.
[DC] See now there’s a little factoid I didn’t know. Thanks so much Barry! And Terry and Frank, they also have a big production coming up at the PACE – Nunsense. It’s happening April 20…
[Barry] April 20-29th.
[DC] April 20-29th, and it is supposed to be very fun.
[Frank] Oh that’s “nunsense”!
[DC] That is “nunsense”. Just don’t make it a “habit”.
[Frank] So more of you and the community colleges later. Some great things to have available. All right. Well, why don’t you take it from here?
[Terry] All right. If you would like more information about Tulsa Community College, you can call them at 595 7834. Or log on to Tulsa Dot CC Dot OK Dot US. And you just heard DC mention that they’ve got Nunsense coming up, April 20-29th and the VanTrease PACE, they’ve renamed that center. 595 7777. You can call for tickets, or call us right now 460 1001, we have two pair of tickets for the 4th and 8th callers. You can go and see that show for free.
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[Terry] …offers a lot of different opportunities, maybe some that you haven’t thought of before. That’s why DC is checking out TCC for Community College Week.
[DC] I sure am. I’m at TCC West this morning. We’re in the Childhood Development Center. We talked a little bit about that earlier, but we want to talk a little about arts and the Arts Program. And who better to talk to me about that than Barry Epperly? How are you?
[Barry] I’m just fine, and good morning DC.
[DC] Now talk to me a little bit, there’s big goings on with the Symphonia and TCC.
[Barry] Big goings on. The Symphonia and TCC, it’s becoming the signature symphony now. We’re moving, as a resident orchestra for TCC. Two big programs. We will remain who we were and who we are, we’ll be doing performances at the performing arts center – the VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education at 81st and Mingo. But also more outreach and education. That really is one of our main goals. We’ve been doing education for maybe ten years at least. Many of our people will be teaching, adjunct teachers, and working especially one on one in lessons and things like that. But we also hope to have an outreach to the public schools, so that we may do some co-hiring, some co-teaching, some things like that.
[DC] Mhm. Lots of things going on. Also the PACE is expanding, but I also want to get into the Hallsey program. Tell us about that.
[Barry] Well two parts of it. First of all the PACE is expanding – 35,000 square feet added. A new performance area, new practice rooms, etc. Jim Hallsey has for a long time been just a guru of management in the Arts. When I first came to Tulsa 35 years ago, he had the Jim Hallsey Company, the stable - Roy Clark, The Oakridge Boys – just a stable of wonderful folks. We now have his institute as a part of TCC. And you know the largest export of the United States is entertainment.
[DC] See now there’s a little factoid I didn’t know. Thanks so much Barry! And Terry and Frank, they also have a big production coming up at the PACE – Nunsense. It’s happening April 20…
[Barry] April 20-29th.
[DC] April 20-29th, and it is supposed to be very fun.
[Frank] Oh that’s “nunsense”!
[DC] That is “nunsense”. Just don’t make it a “habit”.
[Frank] So more of you and the community colleges later. Some great things to have available. All right. Well, why don’t you take it from here?
[Terry] All right. If you would like more information about Tulsa Community College, you can call them at 595 7834. Or log on to Tulsa Dot CC Dot OK Dot US. And you just heard DC mention that they’ve got Nunsense coming up, April 20-29th and the VanTrease PACE, they’ve renamed that center. 595 7777. You can call for tickets, or call us right now 460 1001, we have two pair of tickets for the 4th and 8th callers. You can go and see that show for free.
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Clip 4
[woman] It is 6:52 and 67 degrees.
[man]Well this morning we’re learning it's never too late to go back school and you know if you haven’t been by some of the local community colleges especially with D.C. is In west Tulsa you're missing out because it’s beautiful over there.
[D.C.]It is beautiful. This is a great campus. We’re at TCC West and we are going to talk a lot about the campus but I want to talk a little bit about some fun facts that you may not know. Did you know that eighty percent of employers require ongoing training and ninety six percent of employers rate community college education as either excellent or good? So you can see the importance right there of community colleges. Now I have Dr. Dean VanTrease with me. Hello.
[VanTrease]Hello, good morning, D.C.
-You’re the guy that runs the whole place, the president.
-Well I don’t know who runs…haha, but I am the president.
-We’ll give you that title anyway, but tell us a little bit about the history of this because you guys have been here a long time.
-We’re in our thirty-first year, we were the first public college in fifty years in Oklahoma higher education and we now have four campuses, a conference center. We just signed a major articulation with OSU-Tulsa. We’ll be offering the freshman/sophomore courses for them. We’re doing something similar in the future with Northeastern State in Broken Arrow. We’re doing a lot of partnering for the first two years of college. We’re doing a lot with business right now we’re excited about what we’re doing in I.T./Telecommunications in a lot of the areas. Early, early on today I know that you had our Performing arts areas and child development. We’re doing a lot of different things for this community. People come here, by the way, all people ask “Why? Why do people come?”. We’re convenient, we have a wide variety of programs, and we’re relatively inexpensive to attend.
–And the other thing these guys have really started doing which is amazing is we can actually go to school online. We never have to go to the classroom, do we?
-It’s the hardest thing we’re doing right now. Two years ago we had two courses online, now we have well over one hundred maybe a hundred and fifty. We’ve gone from forty-two enrollments to over twenty-two hundred enrollments online.
–Gee, I’d say that’s popular.
–Oh it is popular, and it’s what people want. They want any place any time learning and it’s great.
–Well Dr. VanTrease thank you so much, it’s a fabulous facility and Terry and Frank, need to let you know if anyone wants to get some enrollment information for summer, you can come down to any TCC location and get it or as Dr. VanTrease said get online they’ve got it all right there for you.
–Boy classes online.
–Isn’t that great?!
–What a time saver!
–Love that!
–Thanks, D.C., and if you would like to check out Tulsa Community College any one of their campuses, the phone number is 595-7834 or you could log on to tulsa.cc.ok.us.
–Alright, let’s check out that weather.
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[woman] It is 6:52 and 67 degrees.
[man]Well this morning we’re learning it's never too late to go back school and you know if you haven’t been by some of the local community colleges especially with D.C. is In west Tulsa you're missing out because it’s beautiful over there.
[D.C.]It is beautiful. This is a great campus. We’re at TCC West and we are going to talk a lot about the campus but I want to talk a little bit about some fun facts that you may not know. Did you know that eighty percent of employers require ongoing training and ninety six percent of employers rate community college education as either excellent or good? So you can see the importance right there of community colleges. Now I have Dr. Dean VanTrease with me. Hello.
[VanTrease]Hello, good morning, D.C.
-You’re the guy that runs the whole place, the president.
-Well I don’t know who runs…haha, but I am the president.
-We’ll give you that title anyway, but tell us a little bit about the history of this because you guys have been here a long time.
-We’re in our thirty-first year, we were the first public college in fifty years in Oklahoma higher education and we now have four campuses, a conference center. We just signed a major articulation with OSU-Tulsa. We’ll be offering the freshman/sophomore courses for them. We’re doing something similar in the future with Northeastern State in Broken Arrow. We’re doing a lot of partnering for the first two years of college. We’re doing a lot with business right now we’re excited about what we’re doing in I.T./Telecommunications in a lot of the areas. Early, early on today I know that you had our Performing arts areas and child development. We’re doing a lot of different things for this community. People come here, by the way, all people ask “Why? Why do people come?”. We’re convenient, we have a wide variety of programs, and we’re relatively inexpensive to attend.
–And the other thing these guys have really started doing which is amazing is we can actually go to school online. We never have to go to the classroom, do we?
-It’s the hardest thing we’re doing right now. Two years ago we had two courses online, now we have well over one hundred maybe a hundred and fifty. We’ve gone from forty-two enrollments to over twenty-two hundred enrollments online.
–Gee, I’d say that’s popular.
–Oh it is popular, and it’s what people want. They want any place any time learning and it’s great.
–Well Dr. VanTrease thank you so much, it’s a fabulous facility and Terry and Frank, need to let you know if anyone wants to get some enrollment information for summer, you can come down to any TCC location and get it or as Dr. VanTrease said get online they’ve got it all right there for you.
–Boy classes online.
–Isn’t that great?!
–What a time saver!
–Love that!
–Thanks, D.C., and if you would like to check out Tulsa Community College any one of their campuses, the phone number is 595-7834 or you could log on to tulsa.cc.ok.us.
–Alright, let’s check out that weather.
END OF CLIP 4
Clip 5
[Rick Wells]–Welcome back to the program. Eight minutes now until eight o’clock. Now if you’re looking for a way to keep your kids busy this summer while providing them with some great learning experience, maybe the Tulsa Community College folks can help you. Joining us this morning to talk about college for kids and teens Dr. Cheryl Turman. Good morning to you.
[Dr. Cheryl Turman]–Good morning, thanks for having us.
–You’re the director of Continuing Education.
–Yes sir.
–That could continue right on through til forever.
–That’s right, we have programs for all ages.
–But I’m, you know just listening to you during the break tell me about some of the things in particularly, well let’s start with the 3 year olds because that’s really a great opportunity for parents to learn how to get their kids acquainted with computers and everybody learns together.
–Yes we have a program called Computer Camp for Kids and it starts for ages 3 to 5 and on up. Mom or dad or grandparents some adult and a child can sit together in front of the computer and learn about all kinds of software. One class is called Preview and Play so parents can work on the computer with their children, if they like the software they go home and buy it later.
–Well, and you find what your child responds to and what’s easy for you as well, and learn how to use that stuff to help them learn. That’s really terrific. Computers are neat if you use them the right way I think.
–It’s great.
–But it continues from those 3 year olds right on the…
–Right, we have college for kids which is enrichment programs in the summer in all areas: science, math, languages, arts and crafts. We have programs on Friday. A new program called Friday Explorers with trips to various sites in Oklahoma. We’re going to the Red Earth festival the first part of June, and to the Sam Noble museum is two of the trips.
–It’s like a day trip?
–Day trips.
-Leave early in the morning or something like that?
–For ages 8 and up. We’ve got charter busses to take us. We have a week long theater camp for children.
–That sounds like fun.
–It’s going to be great in our Performing Arts Center, so we’re very excited to learn about make-up, about acting, about costume design, stage set-up.
–Well and what goes on backstage because I think part of the magic is that you don’t know what goes on, but you’re always curious. It’s like magicians doing tricks you know? You don’t want to know how to do it but you’d really kind of like to know how to do it.
–Yeah.
–And all of those things, what I guess begin at the end of school and right on through the summer?
–Our classes begin June 4th and throughout the summer. We have an aviation career program for high school students.
–Wow.
–That takes place at Tulsa Technology at the airport campus. There’s one session in June and one in July.
–This is what community colleges are really supposed to be doing. I mean this is the mission of a community college.
–It sure is.
–It’s to educate everybody and help us make our community better and make ourselves better in the process.
–Well you’re exactly right and what we hope is that the children that come now will come back later and take critical classes and we have found that they have done that to a great extent and the community college is not a place that they’re afraid of if they’ve been there when they’re younger.
–Well it sounds so…I mean they’re everywhere. I mean you drive down highway 169 and you see that big campus where the Performing Arts Center is and you think whoo and you see all those cars and it’s a little bit intimidating but if you get them started early then they become used to it and it’s just like a second home.
–Sure.
–Now when does it all start and how do we get involved?
–Well we start on June 4th week. Classes begin at 9 o’clock in the morning and throughout the summer. And we have one telephone number that folks can call and make it easy to enroll and ask questions and get brochures. And we look forward to people coming out at every campus we have things going on.
–Yeah good, alright. And here’s the telephone number that you talked about. It’s 595-7766. I mean how easy is that? You don’t even have to write that one down. Or you can check them out on the web at www.tulsa.cc.ok.us and that’s what it looks like when you log on. You get the Tulsa Community College website and you can find your way to where you need to go and learn all about the classes that are offered and everything that’s going on.
–That’s correct.
–Good to see you.
–Thanks for having us.
–Thanks for coming in. That’s very, very exciting stuff. Alrighty, we’re on our way to…
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[Rick Wells]–Welcome back to the program. Eight minutes now until eight o’clock. Now if you’re looking for a way to keep your kids busy this summer while providing them with some great learning experience, maybe the Tulsa Community College folks can help you. Joining us this morning to talk about college for kids and teens Dr. Cheryl Turman. Good morning to you.
[Dr. Cheryl Turman]–Good morning, thanks for having us.
–You’re the director of Continuing Education.
–Yes sir.
–That could continue right on through til forever.
–That’s right, we have programs for all ages.
–But I’m, you know just listening to you during the break tell me about some of the things in particularly, well let’s start with the 3 year olds because that’s really a great opportunity for parents to learn how to get their kids acquainted with computers and everybody learns together.
–Yes we have a program called Computer Camp for Kids and it starts for ages 3 to 5 and on up. Mom or dad or grandparents some adult and a child can sit together in front of the computer and learn about all kinds of software. One class is called Preview and Play so parents can work on the computer with their children, if they like the software they go home and buy it later.
–Well, and you find what your child responds to and what’s easy for you as well, and learn how to use that stuff to help them learn. That’s really terrific. Computers are neat if you use them the right way I think.
–It’s great.
–But it continues from those 3 year olds right on the…
–Right, we have college for kids which is enrichment programs in the summer in all areas: science, math, languages, arts and crafts. We have programs on Friday. A new program called Friday Explorers with trips to various sites in Oklahoma. We’re going to the Red Earth festival the first part of June, and to the Sam Noble museum is two of the trips.
–It’s like a day trip?
–Day trips.
-Leave early in the morning or something like that?
–For ages 8 and up. We’ve got charter busses to take us. We have a week long theater camp for children.
–That sounds like fun.
–It’s going to be great in our Performing Arts Center, so we’re very excited to learn about make-up, about acting, about costume design, stage set-up.
–Well and what goes on backstage because I think part of the magic is that you don’t know what goes on, but you’re always curious. It’s like magicians doing tricks you know? You don’t want to know how to do it but you’d really kind of like to know how to do it.
–Yeah.
–And all of those things, what I guess begin at the end of school and right on through the summer?
–Our classes begin June 4th and throughout the summer. We have an aviation career program for high school students.
–Wow.
–That takes place at Tulsa Technology at the airport campus. There’s one session in June and one in July.
–This is what community colleges are really supposed to be doing. I mean this is the mission of a community college.
–It sure is.
–It’s to educate everybody and help us make our community better and make ourselves better in the process.
–Well you’re exactly right and what we hope is that the children that come now will come back later and take critical classes and we have found that they have done that to a great extent and the community college is not a place that they’re afraid of if they’ve been there when they’re younger.
–Well it sounds so…I mean they’re everywhere. I mean you drive down highway 169 and you see that big campus where the Performing Arts Center is and you think whoo and you see all those cars and it’s a little bit intimidating but if you get them started early then they become used to it and it’s just like a second home.
–Sure.
–Now when does it all start and how do we get involved?
–Well we start on June 4th week. Classes begin at 9 o’clock in the morning and throughout the summer. And we have one telephone number that folks can call and make it easy to enroll and ask questions and get brochures. And we look forward to people coming out at every campus we have things going on.
–Yeah good, alright. And here’s the telephone number that you talked about. It’s 595-7766. I mean how easy is that? You don’t even have to write that one down. Or you can check them out on the web at www.tulsa.cc.ok.us and that’s what it looks like when you log on. You get the Tulsa Community College website and you can find your way to where you need to go and learn all about the classes that are offered and everything that’s going on.
–That’s correct.
–Good to see you.
–Thanks for having us.
–Thanks for coming in. That’s very, very exciting stuff. Alrighty, we’re on our way to…
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