CHESAPEAKE, VA - (July 23, 2003) -Linda M. Rice, Ph.D., has been
appointed provost of Tidewater Community College's Chesapeake Campus,
effective October 15, 2003. Rice currently serves as TCC's vice
president for Workforce Development. She will take the position
occupied by Dr. Timothy Kerr since the campus's founding in 1973. Kerr
previously announced his intention to retire from TCC this winter.
"
Over the past two-and-a-half years, Dr. Rice has provided impressive,
dynamic, visionary leadership to our Division of Workforce Development,"
says Deborah DiCroce, president of Tidewater Community College. "In
doing so, she has earned the respect and admiration of business and
community leaders throughout the region, particularly in the City of
Chesapeake, as well as among her TCC colleagues and those across the
Virginia Community College System."
In addition to serving as vice president for Workforce Development, Rice
has held a number of positions at TCC. She has been both an adjunct and
full-time instructor, a program director for Respiratory Therapy,
division chair for Health Sciences, director of the Institutional
Self-Study, division chair for Health Sciences and special assistant to
the president.
At TCC, a provost serves as the chief administrative and
academic/student affairs officer for each of the college's four
campuses. Reporting to the college president, each provost is
responsible for all facets of operations for the campus to which
assigned.
Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community
colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000
students annually. It is the 37th largest in the nation's 1,600
community college network and among the 50 fastest growing large
community colleges. Founded in 1968 as a part of the Virginia Community
College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads region with
campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach, a
regional Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne, Portsmouth, the TCC Jeanne
and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in
downtown Norfolk, and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia
Beach. Forty-three percent of the region's residents attending a
college or university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC.
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