Jerry Sue Thornton has served as President of Cuyahoga Community College, the largest and oldest community college in Ohio, since 1992. During her tenure, the College has become a leader in innovation, work force training and an economic engine in the region. In 2004, she was recognized as “one of the 50 most influential people in Northeast Ohio.”

Among her many awards and honors are the Strong Men & Women—Excellence in Leadership, American Council on Education Fellow’s Mentor of the Year Award, Best of the Best African American Female Educators (Phi Delta Kappa), Belle Sherwin Democracy in Action Award, “Spirit of Women” Community Impact Award, and inductee into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame.

Her professional career began as a teacher in Kentucky and before coming to Cuyahoga Community College, she held a number of leadership positions as a faculty member, dean and president.

A native Kentuckian, she earned a bachelor and masters degrees from Murray State University (Kentucky) and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a graduate of Harvard’s Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education. She holds honorary doctorates from the College of St. Catherine (Minnesota) and Youngstown State University (Ohio).

Dr. Carl E. Haynes became Tompkins-Cortland Community College's third president on May 24, 1995. He traces his long history with the college to 1969, the college's second year of operation, when he was hired as a member of the business faculty. Throughout the years, Dr. Haynes has held several positions, including Director of the Development Center for Business, division head, and Dean of Administration. He served as Dean of Academic Affairs from 1987 through 1994, and was named interim president August 1, 1994.

With Dr. Haynes' guidance, Tompkins-Cortland Community College is becoming a learning-centered college with strategic initiatives focused on learning and the learner. The League for Innovation designated TC3 as a Learning College Champion in 2000, recognizing the college's progress in this process. The college also has committed under Dr. Haynes’ leadership to a renewed focus on student life, including on-campus housing, study abroad opportunities, and a stronger intercollegiate athletics program.

Dr. Haynes also has committed the College to the leading edge of technology. Though TC3 is among the smaller colleges in the 64-campus SUNY system, it is among the leaders in online course enrollments. New technology is infused throughout the college's curriculum, and an integrated computer network helps administrative offices better provide services to students. In April 2005, and again in 2007, TC3 was recognized by the Center for Digital Education and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) as the country’s leading “Digital Community College” in the small/rural college category, ranking #1 for both years.

Dr. Haynes is a recognized leader in international education. He has been a featured speaker at several national and international conferences, where he focuses discussion on the innovative concept driving TC3's successful Global Connections program. The college has more than thirty partnerships in more than twenty countries, with agreements that typically send international students from their home college to TC3 for an associate’s degree, then to an American four-year college for a bachelor's degree.

On the state and national levels, Dr. Haynes was founding chair of the board for The Institute for Community College Development at Cornell University. He is a member of the advisory boards of the International Chair Academy and Community Colleges for International Development (CCID). Having completed a four-year term as president of the New York State Association of Presidents of Public Community Colleges (APPCC), he now serves on the executive committee. Dr. Haynes was recently appointed to the SUNY Advisory Council to the Governor’s Commission on Higher Education.

Dr. Haynes received a Bachelor's Degree in Business from the Rochester Institute of Technology, a Master of Science and Master of Business Administration from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.