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TCC Vice President Named President of National Alliance

NORFOLK, Va. – (May 6, 2004) – Tidewater Community College’s Vice President for Workforce Development Theresa Bryant was elected president of the National Alliance of Community and Technical Colleges, a consortium of two-year colleges from across the nation, at the group’s spring conference May 1-3.

The nation-wide organization, celebrating its 25th year, brings together distinguished practitioners and decision-makers in higher education to discuss trends and issues and promote excellence in postsecondary, career and transfer studies. Bryant will preside over NACTC’s next meeting, Oct. 17-19, in Savannah, Ga.

Formerly vice president for workforce development and continuing education at Central Virginia Community College, Bryant joined TCC in March 2004 with more than 25 years of administrative and executive leadership at five institutions of higher education.

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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 37th largest in the nation’s 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks 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 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.