Proud Heritage, Strong Future

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Faculty and
instructional support
Faculty and instructional support
allows TWC to continue
to provide excellent education
to each and every student.
With early gifts, TWC has
been able to introduce new
programs, expand the campus,
establish new projects, and
more. In December, TWC
purchased the old post office
building in downtown Athens.
The college now offers
two graduate programs: an
online MBA and the Master
of Science in Curriculum
Leadership. Starting in the fall
of 2015, TWC will offer an
undergraduate major in Communication
Studies. Continued
support will allow TWC
to establish endowed chairs
and professorships, enhance
science labs, expand library
resources and more.
Dr. Grant Willhite
TWC professor of biology
The way in which students and
faculty interact at TWC is all
about community. The students
and faculty are interacting in
an atmosphere where it’s very
conducive for students to learn.
In anything we do at TWC,
I feel like that should be our
goal, our aim because that sets
us apart. When you have that
sort of community, it allows you
to learn in a way that you can’t
if you don’t have that sort of
support.
I hope the students gain in their
time at TWC, through their
interactions with me and with
other faculty, a deeper appreciation
for learning. The fact that
not everything that you learn
would come from a textbook or
from the internet, but that there
is tremendous value to a collaborative
process of learning, which
you get in classroom size that’s
small and you can interact with
your peers, which you get in a
research lab where you know the
people you’re working with and
you can bounce ideas off each
other. I think that’s a type of
learning that a lot of our students
haven’t experienced prior
to coming here.
It is my hope that the campus
center will allow us to further
build this community of learners
to give the students a place to
engage with each other, to give
us a place where there are spaces
that we can do things that we
can’t currently do. We can use
the campus center as a place to
continue to build community
with our students.
I’m looking forward to the
campus center mostly because
I think it is long overdue. Our
students deserve a place to
interact with each other, a place
where they can come as groups
and study, a place where we can
provide facilities for faculty to
I hope the students gain in their time
at TWC, through their interactions
with me and with other faculty, a
deeper appreciation for learning.
meet with students, and where
we can provide the services that
students have come to expect at
a small liberal arts college like
Tennessee Wesleyan College.