TJC Buildings & Facilities

Tyler Junior College now maintains two campuses to serve its students and community partners.

The Main Campus
The Main Campus, facing East Fifth Street, stands on a 73-acre plot dotted with stately hardwood trees, and includes 30 buildings with eight residence halls. The White Administrative Services Center houses offices of administration, admissions, registrar, business services, financial aid, human resources, alumni, marketing and public information and information resources.

The Rogers Student Center houses the College bookstore, student activities office, tutoring center, Scholars Academy, TRIO, support services, testing, recreational facilities, a multi-purpose meeting room, lounges, College dining services and health services.

Students with interests in mathematics and science will most likely make use of the Aleck Genecov Science Building which provides facilities for lab sciences and offices. Genecov is also where students will find the office of the dean of allied health and nursing. Potter Hall is used for classrooms and offices. Hudnall Planetarium is used to reinforce classroom instruction and meet the needs of the entire community, ranging from adults to kindergarteners.

Students with interests in the humanities and performing arts will most likely make use of three buildings. H. E. Jenkins Hall houses academic classes and offices, and includes an art facility designed for teaching several types of artistic expression as well as providing a showcase for exhibits. The office of the dean of university studies resides in Jenkins Hall. The Wise Auditorium Fine Arts Building contains special rooms for music, art, drama and speech, as well as a large theatre. The Watson W. Wise and Emma Wise Cultural Arts Center houses the music and dance and speech and theatre departments, in addition to offices, classrooms, practice rooms and performance facilities.

The George W. Pirtle Technology Center has five buildings which contain special classrooms and labs for technical courses. It is also home to the dean of applied studies. The Mechanical Trades Building contains classroom and workshop facilities. The Bonna Bess Vaughn Conservatory features a large, fully-equipped greenhouse conservatory with a reception area, classrooms and offices.

Established as a center for research and academic support, the Vaughn Library and Learning Resources Center houses a library of more than 85,000 volumes, a complete multimedia center with audio and video production facilities, personal computer laboratories and study carrels equipped with audio and/or video monitors to supply students with information in their courses. The facility also includes a faculty innovation center for faculty use in enhancing instruction.

Both Wagstaff Gymnasium and the Joseph Z. and Louise H. Ornelas Health and Physical Education Center provide recreational facilities. Wagstaff Gym provides modern facilities for programs in intercollegiate athletics, as well as general programs. The OHPE Center offers comprehensive fitness facilities including a gymnasium, an aerobics dance studio, a weight room, racquetball courts, an aquatics area, a band hall and other physical education facilities.

The College's eight air-conditioned residence halls offer suites for four students sharing a bathroom and two bedrooms. All halls have full-time staff to provide student development activities and operational supervision. Bateman Hall houses 150 students, making it the largest on campus. Both Hudnall Hall and Claridge Hall are home to approximately 90 students. Sledge Hall and Holley Hall house 60 to 70 students. Lewis, Vaughn and West Hall board about 50 students each. All residence halls are managed by Residential Life located in the Purchasing building on campus. Serving intercollegiate and intramural athletics are two on-campus playing fields. Pat Hartley Field includes two regulation-size soccer fields and is home to the men's soccer team. It also serves as a practice facility for football and as a resource for intramural and continuing education programs. Most intramural field activities take place on the Practice Field, located between the OHPE Center and Pirtle Technology. Also located on the main campus, through a cooperative agreement with the College, is the Tyler Museum of Art, a privately-funded contemporary museum.

The West Campus
At TJC's West Campus, in the 1500 block of Tyler's South-Southwest Loop 323, lie the Regional Training and Development Complex (RTDC) and the Skills Training Center. The RTDC is home to continuing education, the Small Business Development Center, the Tyler Area Business Incubator, the ACT Center, TJC Corporate Services, and the Literacy Council of Tyler. The facility is an 84,000-square-foot building which provides quick start-up, fast turnaround, and low-cost training programs for business and industry, in addition to offering lifelong learning and professional enhancement programs for groups and individuals.

The Skills Training Center is an innovative, joint project with area public schools and financed with assistance from the Tyler Independent School District, the Tax Increment Finance Board and the Tyler Economic Development Council. The Skills Training Center is home to the Jake and Mary Roosth Automotive Technology Center and the College's automotive technology and welding technology departments. The center and its departments are utilized by area high school students taking part in concurrent enrollment programs, which offer the opportunity for college credit prior to high school graduation. Many of the students continue their studies after graduating, obtaining certification in technical fields to enter into the expanding job market. Michael Moss of Hunter Engineering Company demonstrates the Hunter Engineering GSP 9712 Radial Force Variation Machine inside the Jake and Mary Roosth Automotive Technology Center.