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TCC ANNOUNCES GRANTS DIRECTOR

NORFOLK, Va. – (April 20, 2004) – Susan Meslang has joined Tidewater Community College as director of grants and sponsored programs. She has over 30 years of professional leadership and teaching experience, more than two decades of which have been in directing grant-supported activities and in related endeavors.

Included in this experience is her service as the founding director of grants and research in the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University.

Crucial to her position at TCC, she has a comprehensive understanding of the critical role of grants and sponsored programs in diversifying the funding base of a college.

Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000 students annually. The 37 th largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges.   Founded in 1958 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 as well as the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown Norfolk, the Visual Arts Center in Olde Towne Portsmouth 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.