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Student Profiles | 05/18/2018
First AFA graduate on her way to VCU to study vocal performance
Emma Tracy started taking voice lessons at age 12. Today she is a college graduate who has parlayed her love of singing into a college degree. Tracy,...
College News | 05/17/2018
Theater scholarship honors late student’s memory
Joshua Hastings was 22 years old and just months away from graduating with a degree in theater from Tidewater Community College when he died tragically...
College News | 05/16/2018
2018 Women’s Leadership Breakfast highlights student leaders
Shorntail Goodrich never thought of herself as a leader. Now the Tidewater Community College graduate works with Hearts Full of Grace, a nonprofit organization...
Student Profiles | 05/15/2018
Honda PACT student’s memory lives on with completed project car and scholarship fund
Jordan McNair is fondly remembered as the “little brother” by his classmates in the Honda Professional Automotive Career Training (PACT) program...
College News | 05/14/2018
A celebration of multiple firsts and a memorial for a special grad part of TCC’s spring commencement
During a Saturday afternoon of milestones and remembrances, Tidewater Community College celebrated the spring class of 2018 at its 66th Commencement...
TCC President Kolovani announces she will retire after six years
Tidewater Community College President Edna V. Baehre-Kolovani announced today that she will retire as TCC’s fifth president on July 1, 2018. In a...
Student Profiles | 05/11/2018
Student speaker dedicated to leading a purpose-driven life
Tony Sawyer credits Tidewater Community College with his successful transition from high school dropout to college graduate. The student speaker for...
Student Profiles | 05/10/2018
When Christine Dela Cruz immigrated to this country five years ago from the Philippines to join her father in Virginia Beach, she didn’t know what...
Student Profiles | 05/09/2018
TCC graduate found her passion to serve while in college
Shorntail Goodrich came to Tidewater Community College to retrain for a new career. She spent her 20s and 30s working as an apartment complex manager...
Student Profiles | 05/08/2018
TCC’s Norfolk Campus awards its first Governor’s Medallion
Jay Sellers is the first Tidewater Community College student to earn his associate degree from the Norfolk Campus while still in high school. The homeschooled...
Student Profiles | 05/07/2018
Mom and daughter earning same associate degree on same day
Linda and Danielle Owens close up the Joint-Use Library almost every weeknight. They’re not staff, they’re late-night study partners who will be...
Student Profiles | 05/04/2018
Trio of Portsmouth high-schoolers bound for college as juniors thanks to dual enrollment
Gabrielle Hutchings, Brandi Porter and Jaylyn Richard trade stories about night classes, chemistry homework and not enough hours in a day to complete...
Joint-Use Library on TCC Virginia Beach Campus is changing hours
Effective Monday, May 14, the Joint-Use Library on Tidewater Community College’s Virginia Beach Campus will have new weekday hours. The library hours...
College News | 05/03/2018
TCC donor’s scholarship plants seeds for student success
Sarah “Tata” White Kellam was 33 when she started selling plants from her greenhouse in a vacant lot on Virginia Beach’s Shore Drive. Her company,...
Program Spotlights | 05/02/2018
Earn an associate in one year at TCC’s Norfolk or Portsmouth Campuses
Students who want to fast track their education by earning an associate degree in just one year can take advantage of an accelerated degree option on...
College News | 04/30/2018
TCC to celebrate spring commencement on May 12
Del. Cheryl Turpin will be the keynote speaker for Tidewater Community College’s 66th Commencement Exercises on May 12 at the Ted Constant Convocation...
Program Spotlights | 04/26/2018
TCC, HRUHCA partner to deliver pipelayer training program
Tidewater Community College will graduate its inaugural pipelayer training class in May. The training stems from a partnership between TCC and the Hampton...
Student Profiles | 04/25/2018
Perseverance pays off for TCC scholarship recipient
Dakota Bernacki always knew he would be paying his own way through college. So when the time came for him to consider his educational options, Tidewater...
16th annual Women’s Leadership Breakfast to feature Newport News Shipbuilder Mary Cullen
Mary Cullen of Newport News Shipbuilding will be the keynote speaker for Tidewater Community College’s 16th annual Women’s Leadership Breakfast...
College News | 04/24/2018
VAC exhibition features artist from Wabash College
Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center (VAC) will host the solo exhibition “Over and Over: Sculpture & Photographs by Doug Calisch”...