Interview with Frank Garratt
- Title
- Interview with Frank Garratt
- Description
- In this interview Frank Garratt describes his time working on the faculty and as an administrator at TCC. He talks about teaching English when the school first opened, the progression of the college from being run by the Tacoma Public School District to run by the state, and his time as an administrator. Other subjects included in his interview are the race debates of the 1960s and the integration of Black students into the student population, students avoiding the draft, budget cuts in the 1980s, and the changes in the student body and social life on campus. At the end of the interview, he briefly speaks about the importance of community college, and what it is like for people with disabilities in the academic world.
- Subject
- Community colleges
- Tacoma Community College
- oral histories (literary works)
- video recordings (physical artifacts)
- Creator
- Tacoma Community College. Department of Marketing and Communications
- Source
- Tacoma Community College Department of Marketing and Communications records
- Publisher
- Tacoma Community College Archives
- Date
- 2013
- Contributor
- Garratt, Frank
- Jennison, Shawn
- Rights
- Use is governed by Tacoma Community College's Creative Commons Copyright policy requiring attribution and share-alike intentions.
- Format
- MP4
- Language
- English
- Identifier
- TCCA012_GarrattFrank
- Coverage
- Tacoma (Wash.)
Part of Interview with Frank Garratt