WXXI: MCC's Flynn Announces Retirement (2007-05-30)

The president of Monroe Community College has announced he'll retire a year from now.

Tom Flynn has spent 33 years of his career at M-C-C, the last eight of those years as president. He'll retire as the college's longest serving chief executive.

M-C-C is one of the biggest two year colleges in New York State. It's expanded from associate degree programs to become a key part of the Rochester area economy by handling training programs for local businesses and industry. The college has also become deeply involved in public safety. It runs the regional training center for police, fire and emergency medical technicians. It also hosts an anti-terrorism training center called the Homeland Security Management Institute.

During Flynn's presidency the college enrollment rose by 21 percent, to more than 35-thousand students a year. M-C-C added more than a dozen new degree programs, built residential and sports facilities and planned for a new downtown campus in the Renaissance Center.

The M-C-C Trustees have announced they're hiring an executive search firm to look for a replacement, and they say they want a community process.