While hiking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, Trey Rauh decided he needed a new professional direction. He found the right course at Tidewater Community College, where he is pursuing his Associate of Science in Engineering. “TCC is close to home and the price was right,” said Rauh, who graduated from Virginia Tech in 2012 with a […]
Kori Wright wanted to pursue a college degree, but the mother of two needed to work full time to pay her bills. Interviewing for a position at Creative World School, Wright discovered a dream scenario of “earn while you learn.” Today she is Tidewater Community College’s first apprentice in early childhood education. The two-year apprenticeship […]
Daniel Velazquez already saved his first life and he’s only a first-year student in Tidewater Community College’s respiratory therapy program. “There is no better feeling in the world,” said Velazquez, 31, who will graduate with an Associate of Applied Science in Respiratory Therapy next spring. Last month Velazquez worked alongside the team in Riverside Regional […]
When Nathaniel Gonzales’ assignment for a military contractor ended, he realized he needed to advance his education to advance his career. With support from the Fleet Reserve Association and the Tidewater Community College Educational Foundation, he’s doing just that. “I decided to go to school, so I could move forward,” said Gonzales, who is pursuing […]
Harry Ellorin loves all things green, making the Tidewater Community College student a perfect fit for a highly competitive summer program called Securing Our Food: A Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at Virginia Tech. The horticulture student will earn $4,500 and spend 10 weeks working to develop solutions to our food, fiber and fuel needs of […]
More than 700 of Tidewater Community College’s 1,500 graduates weathered a rainy Saturday morning to walk in a graduation ceremony with a military flair held at the Ted Constant Convocation Center. Capt. Rich McDaniel addresses the graduates at TCC’s 64th Commencement Exercises. TCC President Edna V. Baehre-Kolovani saluted both the Class of 2017 and the […]
Credit a 10-year-old boy for fueling Megan Roche’s determination to thrive at Tidewater Community College. Roche, the student speaker at TCC’s commencement exercises on May 13, will graduate with an Associate of Science in Science. She plans to transfer to the College of William & Mary to earn her bachelor’s in biology. It’s a career […]
At Tidewater Community College’s May commencement exercises, Rachel Gee will finish what she started in 1992. Gee, 69, will graduate with an Associate of Applied Science in Early Childhood Development. She looks forward to walking in the ceremony at the Ted Constant Convocation Center on May 13. “It’s going to be an awesome thing,” Gee […]
If you Google Griffin Leach, you’ll find plenty of stories about his dominance on the ice. He dreamed of a career in the National Hockey League until injuries and challenges led him to rethink his life plan. Now he is set for an internship with a billion-dollar bank before he transfers to the University of […]
By the time Jessica Francis decided to attend Tidewater Community College, she had worked as a copywriter, social media specialist and pastry chef. They were jobs that lacked significant income and the internal rewards she desired. Francis carefully weighed her options before finding the whole package she wanted in TCC’s diagnostic medical sonography program (DMS). […]