Essay on Tunxis

Tunxis Community College offers its students a quality, yet affordable education in an accessible and supportive environment, fostering the skills necessary to succeed in an increasingly complex world.

The question I chose to write about was question number two.Is the mission statement of Tunxis Community College on the mark. Why or why not?

I will go phrase by phrase through the sentence to show why I believe that the mission statement chosen by Tunxis Community College is a dead on accurate portrayal of their goal as a community college. Before I look into the actual sentence I think of what I believe any college’s goals should be as an academic and educational environment. 1st obviously an educational staff that does their job well and teaches the students with enough one on one access to give every student the opportunity to excel, while also teaching them life lessons that they will eventually have to apply when they become active individuals in the community. The first part of the mission statement states that Tunxis Community College offers its students a quality yet affordable education. With that said I myself have had the opportunity to experience the quailty of the educational environment and from a students perspective I believe it to be as beneficial and helpful environment as any college could offer. The teachers seem to love what they do, many of them coming from high-school teaching positions, one of whom was my own 11th grade geometry teacher, and give plenty of opportunities for one on one time to learn the information being taught along with easy access to communication outside of school to contact teachers via email or phone. As for the affordable ending to the phrase anyone who knows anything about college tuition knows that it can cost applicants a large percentage of their income even with financial aid along with an arm and a leg thrown in. Tunxis’ rates are very competitive with other community colleges and make it very easily affordable to go to school for those low on funds. The next part of the statement claims an “accessible and supportive environment.” I have already covered how supportive the teachers are but also the staff working as guidance counselors, transfer counselors, secretaries, the tutoring staff and the educational resource staff make it easy for students to learn how they can be helped by Tunxis’ resources along with how they can help themselves. As for accessible Tunxis physically is a very open campus, and small enough for no one to possibly get lost in at least for not more than a minute or so until they find a campus staff to direct them. Obviously applicants are not discriminated against and anyone who applies can go there. The last phrase says while “fostering the skills necessary to succeed in an increasingly complex world.” Anyone living in society nowadays knows how complicated life has become in this new millennium. As an educational environment I truly believe Tunxis meets and surpasses all standards of a community college that it wishes to fulfill.