How many high school students get a tour of a college campus hosted by its President?! Coal Creek Scholars did during our visit to Tusculum College.
As part of our Coal Creek Scholars program, we take the students to visit schools that they might be interested in attending. The hour and a half drive to Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN from Coal Creek was beautiful on this spring morning in East Tennessee. Tusculum President Dr. Nancy Moody and Campus Visit Coordinator Becky Tankersley and Aaron Porter were gracious hosts to our group.
(Photo from Tusculum web site)
President
Nancy Moody discusses the importance
of a college education with the
scholars
Scholars with their tour guides Aaron Porter and
Becky Tankersley
outside the baseball stadium.
Tusculum boasts
some great athletic facilities
for their students.
Tusculum is one of a very limited number of colleges offering the "Block" program which is where a student will take one class for 18 days. The Block System allows you to live and to breathe each subject and to become a part of a true learning community. Click for more info on the Block.
HISTORY OF TUSCULUM COLLEGE
Founded in 1794, Tusculum College is the oldest college in Tennessee, the twenty-eighth oldest college in the nation, and the oldest coeducational institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The wooded 140-acre Tusculum College campus has eight buildings and the Tusculum Arch that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
LOCATION
Located in Greeneville, Tennessee, Tusculum College lies in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. The city of Greeneville and Greene County have a combined population of over 65,000. Tusculum also maintains offices in Knoxville, Tennessee, for its Graduate and Professional Studies Program, in addition to other class sites across East Tennessee.
Others attending were: Stephanie Byrge, Johnny & Ruth Patterson, Reba Randolph, Tammy Wright, Phillip Sexton, and Barry Thacker and Carol Moore from the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation
