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Linda Harris
joins TCC as disability services coordinator
NORFOLK, Va. – (March
28, 2005) – Tidewater Community College has appointed Linda
Harris to the position of college disability services coordinator.
Harris returns to TCC after graduating more than two decades ago.
In this position, Harris ensures that TCC students with disabilities
receive the accommodations they need for access to appropriate curriculum
and to achieve their educational goals. Currently, TCC has more
than 1,000 students with disabilities at its four campuses.
Harris brings unique qualifications to the position because of her
disability. “Serving others with disabilities has been the
driving force for everything I’ve done with my life,”
Harris explains. “I got my start at TCC, and I want to hang
that diploma on the wall to encourage others, saying, ‘Look,
this is where I started and I made it all the way through law school.’”
Previously, Harris served as a principle investigator and program
specialist for Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition, she
served as a staff attorney for the Department of Rights of Virginians
with Disabilities.
After graduating with an associate degree from TCC, Harris received
a bachelor of arts degree from Virginia Wesleyan and a juris doctorate
from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William
& Mary in 1995.
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Laurie White |
Media Relations |
757-822-1085 |
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Tidewater Community College
is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth
of Virginia, enrolling more than 35,000 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-four
percent of the region’s residents attending a college or university
in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC. For more information,
visit www.tcc.edu
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