McMinn Higher Education Center (MHEC)

MHEC is a facility of the Cleveland State Community College (CSCC) that opened in Athens in 2021. This center will be a location for students to complete degrees without traveling to the Cleveland campus. The center is a collaborative space for higher education, housing programs from CSCC, Tennessee College of Applied Technology and the McMinn County UT Extension Institute of Agriculture and includes space for local industry training to upgrade the existing workforce.