News Releases @ TCC TCC HELD CANDLELIGHT VIGILS HONORING TECH VICTIMS   HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – (April 19, 2007) – As part of an observance at colleges and universities across the state, sponsored by Virginia21, Tidewater Community College held a candlelight vigil on April 19 at each of its four campuses to honor and remember the victims of the Virginia Tech tragedy.   TCC also offers its students and communities a way to send e-mail expressing condolences and thoughts of support for colleagues and fellow students at Virginia Tech: ThoughtsForVirginiaTech@tcc.edu. For more information, call TCC's Information Center, 822-1122 or go to TCC's web site, http://www.tcc.edu.

 

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Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 37,000 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