Tennessee College of Applied Technology

Mission: To meet, more adequately, the occupational and technical training needs of citizens and residents of the college’s service area including employees of existing and/or prospective industries and businesses of the state.

The Vision of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Athens is to enhance the quality of life for the individual Tennessee citizen, family, and the local community at large by providing easy access to lifelong education and training for all private adult citizens and corporate citizens within our service delivery area.  We will continue to work with business and industry to develop customized training programs to meet the training needs of their employees.  The development of a quality workforce will assure Tennessee’s economic competitiveness in the global marketplace.  We envision the Tennessee College of Applied Technology Athens as being the preferred educational option for the majority of adults whose career choices require qualifications beyond a high school diploma but do not require a baccalaureate degree and for those companies that require customized training and retraining services.

The Colleges fulfill their mission by:

• Providing competency-based training through superior quality, traditional and distance learning instruction methods that qualify completers for employment and job advancement;
• Contributing to the economic and community development of the communities served by training and retraining employed workers;
• Ensuring that programs and services are economical and accessible to all residents of Tennessee; and
• Building relationships of trust with community, business, and industry leaders to supply highly skilled workers in areas of need.