Student Profiles
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Student Profiles | 04/18/2018
Dual enrollment program sparked high school buddies to embrace welding
When Alyssa Shepherd and Christopher Newbill graduate from Wilson High School in June, they will have a credential in hand and a leg up on a promising...