When Dieudonné “GG” Sogbossi took flight from Togo to America, he spoke only a little English. A native French speaker, Sogbossi, 22, began taking English as a second language classes at Tidewater Community College. He mastered the subject and will earn an Associate of Science in Engineering at TCC’s 65th Commencement Exercises on Dec. 18 […]
If Kareem Etheridge had mirrored what he saw growing up, he might be in jail like one of his brothers. Or dead, like another brother. Instead, Etheridge is graduating from Tidewater Community College with an Associate of Applied Science in Culinary Arts and talking about the someday restaurant he wants to call Kareem the Dream […]
Ashlynn Thompson is not paying a penny to go to Tidewater Community College. She’s wildly ecstatic about her future as an elementary school teacher. Even better: Just one semester into college, she has a job lined up with Virginia Beach Public Schools. It wouldn’t be a reach, she said, to say her college experience tops […]
Three giant tuition bills all at once. That didn’t add up for triplets Hope, Steven and Perry Drew. Enrolling at Tidewater Community College for two years before transferring to a four-year university made all the sense in the world both economically and academically for the Nansemond River High School graduates. “It’s kind of hard to […]
And your 2017 Thomas Moss Scholars are… Aric Justice, who earned his Associate of Science in Business Administration, and is pursuing his bachelor’s in international business at Old Dominion University. David Vernon, who will graduate with his Associate of Science in Business Administration next spring. He plans to transfer to ODU for a bachelor’s in […]
Aspiring pediatricians, counselors, video game designers and firefighters make up a small sample of TCC’s newest students. Here’s what they had to say only a week after classes. Trevor Bransfield Campus: Virginia Beach Bransfield, a First Colonial High School graduate, is pursuing an Associate of Science in Science with a Specialization in Computer Science and […]
You want to join the military as an officer and attend Tidewater Community College? Why not join ROTC while at TCC? “It’s really worth it if you want to challenge yourself,” said Brandon Hobbs, an I.C. Norcom High graduate earning his Associate of Applied Science in Information Systems Technology at TCC. Hobbs along with TCC […]
Tidewater Community College welcomed its first class of STEM Promise Program scholars with colorful balloons and celebratory drumrolls at a “signing” ceremony held Aug. 16 on its Chesapeake Campus. Ten students will pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related disciplines at TCC and complete two-year associate degrees at no cost for tuition and fees under the […]
The body was on the side of a mountain. Lead detective Cody Klauer constructed a safe path for his unit to reach it, free of poison ivy and unsafe edges, all while limiting any intrusive influences to avoid contaminating the scene. Creepy stuff, eh? Consider that Klauer is a Tidewater Community College student and the […]
Zack Ware tried college when he was 19 and failed all of his classes. Six years later, he is one class shy of his Associate of Science in Engineering at Tidewater Community College. “When my daughter was born three years ago, I had a new reason and drive to go back to school and do better,” Ware said Ware spent his […]