TCC News
Skilled Trades Academy expanding to offer more training options for students
Tidewater Community College celebrated the expansion of TCC’s Skilled Trades Academy (STA) in Portsmouth. The expansion provides an additional 12,000 square feet of space for workforce training. The STA opened in 2019 and is currently a 20,000-square-foot academy, located at 3303 Airline Blvd. It is one of the largest trade academies run by a community college on […]
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Tidewater Community College recognizes five faculty and staff members from across the college with special awards during TCC’s College-Wide Fall Convocation. This year’s event was held on August 22, 2024 at the Chesapeake Campus Student Center. Selected by their peers in the faculty and classified associations at the college, the honorees exhibit the characteristics that […]
The Tidewater Community College Robotics team arrived home from a special summer trip out West with some hardware. With a combination of teamwork and innovation, the TCC Chesapeake campus Robotics team of five students won 2nd place at the prestigious 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Robot Competition in Portland, Oregon, on June 23, […]
Tidewater Community College (TCC) President Dr. Marcia Conston and Norfolk State University (NSU) President Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston signed an agreement on Monday to create the Passport Program. A pathway to prepare TCC students for a seamless transition to NSU for the completion of a bachelor’s degree. The Passport Program offers students who need additional preparation prior to […]
Tidewater Community College (TCC) President Dr. Marcia Conston and Christopher Newport University (CNU) President William Kelly signed an agreement Tuesday that creates CNU Ready. It is a pathway to prepare TCC students for the next step in their educational journey at Christopher Newport University and completion of a bachelor’s degree. Kelly and Conston put pen and […]
~ Community Colleges are the Lowest-Funded Higher Education Institutions in Virginia ~ RICHMOND, Va. – Recognizing the additional funding approved by the governor and Virginia General Assembly, the State Board for Community Colleges voted today to limit base tuition increases to three percent for in-state students. A $4.79 per credit hour tuition increase for in-state […]
Watching our students officially become Tidewater Community College alumni this time of year and celebrate their accomplishments with family and friends brings us so much pride at TCC. Some students are graduating with more than one degree this year. Kimberly Flores-Aguilar is a graduating senior at Manor High School in Portsmouth who graduated from TCC […]
Since the summer of 2021, the Tidewater Community College LEAP program has been helping high school students get a head start in transitioning to college life. While setting students up for success, the program also absorbs first semester college costs, allowing students to take 3 to 12 credits at TCC at no cost to them. […]
Chiara Williams, a graduate of Great Bridge High School in Chesapeake, is graduating from Tidewater Community College with an associate of science in Social Science and will serve as Tidewater Community College’s 78th Commencement Exercise Student Speaker. This fall, Williams plans to continue her education at Old Dominion University to complete her studies in clinical psychology. […]
Portsmouth native Elijah Kelly always knew he wanted to work in Japan someday, and he began studying the Japanese language on his own during his freshman year at Tidewater Community College. One day on campus, Elijah met a TCC student government representative who told him she was a former participant of the Japan Exchange and […]
As a Tidewater Community College student juggling the responsibilities of academics, entrepreneurship, and motherhood, LaTonya Carraway-Snow says it has been immensely challenging for her to make ends meet. The Hampton Roads resident first enrolled in the culinary arts program at TCC in 2014 but halted her studies to devote herself full-time to her own cleaning […]
