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Whether you want to earn a degree, improve your skills, get certified, train for a new career, or explore a new hobby, you can choose from many programs and courses.
Explore your interests and find a program that puts you on the path to a bright future. Tri-C offers both credit and non-credit courses as well as certificate programs in most career fields.
More than 1,000 credit courses are offered each semester in more than 200 career and technical programs. Tri-C also grants short-term certificates, certificates of proficiency and post-degree professional certificates.
Tri-C's Workforce Training provides both non-credit and credit training for individuals and businesses to assist individuals with skills leading to employment. Tri-C's Corporate College provides professional development and corporate training opportunities.
Tri-C offers a variety of affordable and convenient community programs for both adults and youth. These programs are designed to promote individual development.
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A preferred name is a name that a person chooses to be identified by, apart from their legal name. Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) allows students and employees to use a preferred name.
Identifiers such as name, gender
People may use different personal pronouns in various contexts. This includes using no pronouns or only using one’s name. Below is a chart of some common pronouns and their pronunciations.
Subject | Object | Possessive |
She | Her | Hers |
He | Him | His |
They | Them | Theirs |
Xe (zhee) | Xem ( |
Xyrs ( |
Gender identity describes an individual’s personal sense of their gender, not their biological sex. A person’s gender identity may or may not be the same as what they marked as gender on their application to the College.
For more information about personal pronouns, gender identity and why they matter, visit the Safe Zone website.
You may update your preferred name, add your personal pronouns and/or update your gender identification in my Tri-C space.
Students
1. Log in to my Tri-C space using your S-Number and password.
2. Discover and search using the term Update; then click on Update My Account Information.
3. Click Update My Address/Phone/Email.
4. Click Personal Information; then click Edit within the Personal Details section.
5. Update preferred first name, select personal pronouns and/or select gender identity.
Employees
1. Log in to my Tri-C space using your S-Number and password.
2. Discover and click on the Employee Dashboard card.
3. Click My Profile, then Personal Information.
4. Click Edit within the Personal Details section.
5. Update preferred first name, select personal pronouns and/or select gender identity.
If you do not see your gender designation, please contact your campus Lambda Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) advisor or the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Your preferred name will appear in the following areas and will substitute for your primary/legal name:
• Counseling schedules
• Blackboard
• Class rosters
• Grade rosters
All official Tri-C student record documents, such as enrollment verification, degree verification