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TCC WINS NATIONAL
ADVERTISING AWARDS
HAMPTON
ROADS, Va. – (April 7, 2005) – Tidewater Community
College received four awards in the National Council for Marketing
& Public Relations (NCMPR) Paragon Awards competition. A gold
award was presented to TCC for its outdoor advertising campaign,
and two silver awards were presented for radio advertisement/public
service announcement series. TCC also won a bronze award for color
photography.
NCMPR received 1,753 entries from 286 two-year colleges across
the US, Canada and a few from the United Kingdom.
NCMPR’s Paragon Awards recognize outstanding achievement
in communications at community, junior and technical colleges.
It’s the only national competition of its kind that honors
excellence exclusively among marketing and PR professionals at
two-year colleges. The 2004 winners were announced on March 15,
2005, at NCMPR’s annual national conference in Minneapolis.
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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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