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COLLEGES
TCATs Serving Middle Tennessee: Dickson, Hartsville, Hohenwald, Livingston,
39 TEACHING LOCATIONS
McMinnville, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Pulaski and Shelbyville
2019 Highlights TCAT Nashville Apprenticeship Programs Sparked by Private-Public Partnerships In partnership with employers, the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, the North Tennessee Workforce Board and other state agencies, TCAT Nashville is offering electrician and HVAC apprenticeship programs.
15,320 YEAR-END HEADCOUNT*
Program participants take classes at TCAT Nashville while working under the direction of skilled journeymen in a structured earnand-learn training program. The electrician apprenticeship program was designed and implemented in eight weeks with Empower Electric. The HVAC program is in partnership with Merryman-Farr Contractors and Interstate AC.
2,588 DIPLOMAS & CERTIFICATES AWARDED*
Seamless Transfers to Community Colleges Now Offered A series of new articulation agreements will make it easier for TCAT Shelbyville students to transfer into A.A.S. Engineering and Information Technology degree programs at Chattanooga State. TCAT Dickson and TCAT Nashville signed articulation agreements for an LPN to RN bridge program at Nashville State. Students accepted and starting at a TCAT can transfer seamlessly without starting over and retaking classes.
4,268,700 CONTACT HOURS*
More than $6.2 million was awarded to TCATs Pulaski, Dickson, Hartsville, Livingston, McMinnville and Hohenwald for educational projects in distressed and at-risk counties
*2017-18
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through the Governor’s GIVE program.