Florida could be down to a single “community” college next year, as Tallahassee Community College President Jim Murdaugh said a name change is underway.
“I do think it’s time,” Murdaugh said Tuesday during the “Greg Tish Show” on Tallahassee’s Real Talk 93.3 radio station. “I’ve been reluctant, because, again, you will not find anybody more proud to be at Tallahassee Community College. But I understand that people may not want to have a bachelor’s degree hanging on their wall from a community college.”
The school’s Board of Trustees has started a process to look at what other colleges have done and might bring in a professional branding firm to help settle on a new name that ultimately would need legislative approval, Murdaugh said.
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“We don’t want to damage our brand,” Murdaugh said.
Opened in 1966 as Tallahassee Junior College, the school known locally as TCC became Tallahassee Community College in 1970.
All but two of the 28 schools in the Florida College System — TCC and Hillsborough Community College — use the name “state college” or more simply “college” instead of “community college.”
The change away from “community college” began when St. Petersburg Junior College became St. Petersburg College in 2001 with the addition of four-year degrees.
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