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TO HOST STATEWIDE STUDENT-LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE, NOV. 4-6
23 community colleges expected to send 400 students
HAMPTON
ROADS, Va. – (Oct. 17, 2005) – Tidewater Community
College will host the 2005 Virginia Community College System (VCCS)
student leadership conference Nov. 4-6 at the Sheraton Oceanfront
hotel in Virginia Beach.
Approximately 400 students from TCC and its 22 peer colleges in
Virginia will attend the weekend of workshops, speakers, hands-on
activities and entertainment. The conference, this year called
Catch the Wave to Leadership, will feature the VCCS “American
Idol” Competition at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4,
at the Sheraton. The contest will be judged by three local DJs:
Barry McKay, program director and DJ, WPTE; Kristie Michael, BOB
FM; and Brandon Thoms, WROX.
The VCCS student leadership conference will offer 18 workshops
that include a trip on TCC’s research vessel, the Matthew
F. Maury. Workshop topics feature how to be a successful leader,
strategies for personal success, tips on beating stress, money
and time management, ethics, risk management, women leaders, and
teamwork.
In addition, students will hear from motivational speaker Jackie
Nink Pflug, a terrorist hijacking survivor and author of Miles
to Go Before I Sleep, and from VCCS Chancellor Glenn DuBois, whose
career began with a community college education.
NOTE: The conference and its events are for VCCS
students and are not open to the public.
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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 36,000 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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