Welcome To Tillamook Bay Community College
Welcome to the first fully online catalog for Tillamook Bay Community College.
It is exciting to unveil our very first online catalog for the college for the 2019-20 academic year. It is fully interactive and searchable, and allows students to find all the same information that was in our printed catalogs. You can even easily print out sections of the catalog if you so desire. We hope you find this a useful resource if you are exploring coming to TBCC for the first time or returning to the college from last year.
Please take note: on the next page is a list of our TBCC Vision and Mission Statements, our Core Themes that we focus to achieve as part of our Mission, and our college values. We take these very seriously and want to provide the highest quality experience to our students as they work to achieve their educational goals. We want to be the place everyone in our county looks to if there is a need for credit or non-credit training or classes to help them improve their lives. Education changes lives for the better and is important to all of us through our entire lifetime.
TBCC will be working on integrating our services to students into a Guided Pathways model over the coming year. This model is an integrated approach to student success that guides students from their point of entry through to attainment of high-quality post-secondary credentials and careers with value in the job market. It will help us be more effective and efficient in helping students choose a path to follow at college. It will also help students to stay on their path, and integrate it all that with clear, measureable student learning outcomes in every class and program. We are excited about this work and how it will help even more of our students to be successful in their college endeavors.
We started three new programs this past year and all are being very successful. The AAS in Forestry is fully articulated with Oregon State University’s (OSU) Professional Forestry program and a student can transfer to OSU in that program with a Junior level standing. provides an Associate of Science (AS) degree prior to transferring to OSU. We have revised our Agriculture and Natural Resources degree program to now be individual transfer degrees with OSU. Both will be AS degrees that again articulate directly to OSU in those disciplines. We also added a new AS degree in Animal Science that again articulates to OSU. We are excited about these changes that will enhance the pathways of students wanting a career in one of those fields.
Another new program this past year was development of an AAOT in Education. Again, a transfer degree that articulates to Western Oregon University (WOU) for those students that want to be a public school teacher, preferably in Tillamook County. Students can get by taking classes at WOU only their junior year and then be at home in Tillamook County the other three years. We will then be exploring the possibility of starting an Early Childhood Education certificate program this coming year.
Another new program that will begin this year is a full degree and certificate in Welding which gives students skills that are in high demand with high wages. TBCC is continuing to expand its credit and non-credit programs to meet the needs of Tillamook County residents.
Finally, we started a non-credit training certificate in Truck Driving this past year and it has been wildly successful. The four week program prepares students to take their Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) test. Every class is now full and we are offering our class in Clatsop County as well. We continue to work hard to meet the needs of our community.
Another new program that will begin this year is a full degree and certificate in Welding which gives students skills that are in high demand with high wages. So TBCC is continuing to expand its credit and non-credit programs to meet the needs of Tillamook County residents.
I wish all of you a productive and successful year of education at TBCC. Please do stop by and say "hi" sometime. My door is always open!
Dr. Ross Tomlin,
TBCC President
