Due to inclement weather TCC will open at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. All in-person and virtual support services will resume at 10 a.m.
Gabrielle Hutchings, Brandi Porter and Jaylyn Richard trade stories about night classes, chemistry homework and not enough hours in a day to complete everything on their to-do lists. The teenagers also revel in an achievement that will allow them to enter four-year colleges as juniors thanks to already earning associate degrees from Tidewater Community College. Norcom […]
Dakota Bernacki always knew he would be paying his own way through college. So when the time came for him to consider his educational options, Tidewater Community College’s affordability made it the clear choice. “I didn’t want to wing it and hope I got the financial aid I needed at a four-year school,” Bernacki said. […]
When Alyssa Shepherd and Christopher Newbill graduate from Wilson High School in June, they will have a credential in hand and a leg up on a promising career. The Olive Branch neighborhood buddies, friends since they were 8-year-olds, each earned a Career Studies Certificate in Maritime Welding from Tidewater Community College. They attained the 19 […]
Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center (VAC) held its 47th Annual Student Art and Design Exhibition awards ceremony on March 31. Students Tina Stafford, Rebecca Smith and Elizabeth Paker earned top honors. Stafford won the President’s Award for her photograph titled Fallen Tree “Limbs.” She will graduate in May with her Associate of Applied Arts […]
After 12 years in the Navy, Jeff Heiser tried his hand at “a real person’s job” working as a field service engineer. He hated it, realizing he wanted his future to be about what he so enjoyed in his past – snapping pictures. Now he runs his own business and has the education to go […]
Tidewater Community College’s Zach Steinmiller is taking distance learning to a whole new level. As a diesel mechanic working toward his Associate of Applied Science in Diesel Technology, Steinmiller, 22, was looking for a place to complete his cooperative education when he found a position with Pacific Architects and Engineers, Inc. in Antarctica. Two months […]
In case you haven’t heard the buzz, it’s National Engineers Week, a seven-day celebration of all that engineers do to make our world a better place. Take Tidewater Community College student Daniel Howard, for example, who not only wants to make his career in engineering, but has an innovative idea that could improve environmental sustainability. […]
Johvanny Torres makes it his mission to help, whether getting a stranded motorist on the road, explaining a computer error message to a struggling student or coming to the rescue of an entire apartment building of displaced residents after a catastrophe. The Tidewater Community College student isn’t looking for payment or even thanks. He’s simply […]
One week before Christmas, Tidewater Community College celebrated its graduates along with a military milestone at the Ted Constant Convocation Center. “I do not think I would be here this evening speaking to you in this uniform without TCC,” Navy Cmdr. Shannon Wiens said in an emotional speech to the graduates. “TCC gave me a […]
Jessica Evans knows what it’s like to fall asleep on a park bench and to hear the words “traumatic brain injury” applied to her. On Dec. 18, she’ll know the feeling of graduating from college. The student speaker for Tidewater Community College’s 65th Commencement Exercises will graduate with an Associate of Science in Business Administration. […]