Media Contact

TSTC Marketing and Public Relations Offices are open weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The Marketing and Public Relations Offices of each college are the designated news media contacts. If an employee is contacted directly by a member of the news media and asked to provide any information regarding events, activities, students or other information, it is TSTC’s policy for employees to refer all questions by news media to the TSTC Marketing Department and/or Public Information Office at the respective college or the system office first. After-hours media inquiries should be directed to the respective College or System Marketing or Public Information officer.

According to TSTC system operating standards, “The campus public information officer, or when necessary the System public information officer, should be the first contact for all news purposes:

• to set-up interviews with appropriate individuals;
• to facilitate the media interview;
• to ensure the public information office is being informed of news communications which affects its campus; and
• to ensure that in crisis or other situations which bring media attention
• to the campus, media contacts are channeled through the public information office.”

TSTC standards further states: Routine statements, publications and other communications specific to a campus which are non-controversial in nature, may be issued by that campus when deemed appropriate, remembering to send copies at the time of publication to the System Public Information Officer. However, statements, publications and other communications disseminated to the public by administrative and public information personnel which may be controversial or have significant impact on the college’s image, and/or when there is a reasonable expectation that there will be a criminal investigation or litigation, should be pre-cleared by the Chancellor through the System public information officer. This includes all materials to be published on the internet.

For a complete explanation of TSTC’s System Operating Standard on dissemination of information and news to the public, see SOS GA 1.7 .