Terrell Flowers couldn’t find a job after high school. He filled out dozens of applications and never got a call back. So at the age of 20, he decided to go into business for himself. After spending summers working alongside his grandfather in landscaping, Flowers asked for seven properties to manage, so he could go […]
Scholar, activist and playwright Funmilola Fagbamila is the keynote speaker for Tidewater Community College’s 2019 Black History Month celebration. The adjunct professor of Pan African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, is an original member of the Black Lives Matter movement. She will speak on Feb. 22 at noon in the multipurpose room of […]
Dana Singleton lives by a simple mantra. We can all get along, and we can all give back. Service to others isn’t reserved for the wealthy. If you don’t have money to give, you have time or knowledge. The dean of Student Services at Tidewater Community College’s Portsmouth Campus doesn’t just talk the talk. She […]
For Shanice Mills, giving back isn’t an idea reduced to special times and holidays. It’s woven into her life, partly because that’s how her grandparents raised her and also because she knows what it’s like to be on the receiving end. “You never know when you’re going to need help,” said Mills, recipient of Tidewater […]
Build a website or maintain one. Learn how to code, draw and animate web graphics and add audio and visual elements, too. The best part? You can get a job without investing years of your life and lots of your money. Michael Skipper earned his Career Studies Certificate in Web Development Specialist from Tidewater Community […]
If your image of working in a shipyard is of a grizzled guy weathering windy waterfront conditions with dirty hands, consider Danielle Eckstein. The 26-year-old is a mother of three, including twin toddlers. She didn’t tinker with tools growing up. She prefers an office job to working outside in the elements. The Woodside High School […]
Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center will host the solo exhibition “Alison Stinely: Gilded Splinters & Other Work” from Feb. 2 through March 13. The opening reception will be held on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. A gallery talk will precede the event at 6:30 p.m. Galleries are free and open to the public. The […]
What a year 2018 proved to be for Tidewater Community College, which marked its 50th anniversary with a number of milestones. A few highlights: The college celebrated its new footprint in Norfolk’s NEON District with the announcement of a new visual arts, culinary arts and restaurant management center coming in 2021, and it will benefit […]
As an occupational therapist assistant, Mike Reyes finds joy in helping patients overcome tasks that most of us take for granted. Dressing. Bathing. Sometimes even standing up or writing their name. The Navy veteran who earned his Associate of Applied Science in Occupational Therapist Assistant from Tidewater Community College in 2013 never heard of occupational […]
Tidewater Community College is the recipient of a seven-figure donation to support the building of the Patricia & Douglas Perry TCC Center for Visual & Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management. President Gregory DeCinque announced the gift from Houston “Hu” Odom, president and founder of BOTH, Inc., a franchisee of Golden Corral Restaurants, at a news […]