Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced that he signed a measure that will rename Tallahassee Community College as Tallahassee State College.
The renaming of TCC follows nearly every other school in the state’s network of 28 colleges shedding the “community college” label in favor of “college” or “state college.”
Hillsborough Community College will be the only remaining school in the system to keep the community college moniker.
In announcing that he signed the bill, DeSantis said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the name change for TCC will be “conforming it to other institutions in Florida that are branded as state colleges.”
The measure (SB 522) will take effect in July.
The name change is estimated to cost about $500,000 according to a legislative analysis of the bill. Expenditures would be related to signage, publication, documentation and advertising.
The cost “will be absorbed by the institution, and expended over two fiscal years,” the analysis said.
