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Tidewater Community College

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School Notes:

• Tidewater Community College, founded in 1968, is one of twenty-three two-year colleges that make up the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). Tidewater Community College has grown from a single location to four campuses (Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach), an Advanced Technology Center, and a Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth. TCC also offers classes at local Military Bases and local area schools.
• Tidewater Community College is a comprehensive institution of higher education offering programs of instruction generally extending no longer than two years beyond the high school level. The college offers career and technical education programs, transfer programs, developmental courses, continuing education programs, workforce development programs and distance learning programs.
• Tidewater Community College offers a variety of classes through distance delivery, including telecourses, teleconference classes, and web-based online classes. Students are able to select from a wide range of courses. Taught by TCC faculty, these classes are of comparable academic quality and transfer exactly like their classroom counterparts.
• Tidewater Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the associate degree.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• GIS meeting spreads info about new technology (The Virginian-Pilot)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 04:07:30 am
  VIRGINIA BEACH When Norfolk chose to send its first damage-assessment teams to East Ocean View and Willoughby after last week's nor'easter, it was thanks to GIS. When Old Dominion University biologist Kent Carpenter tracks the frequency of aquatic life across the world, it's also thanks to GIS - short for geographic information systems.
• Geter, Storm use early blitz to win easily (The Lexington Dispatch)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 05:32:55 am
  BY MIKE DUPREZ The Dispatch With three starters out because of injuries, Davidson County Community College needed to get their points from other people. No problem. They did.
• Weather-related closings (Daily Press)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:54:49 am
  Weather-related closings As of Thursday morning
• Darden College of Education wins $6 million grant (The Mace & Crown)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 07:05:54 am
  ODU’s Darden College of Education, along with 28 other higher education institutions in the country, has been chosen to receive a five-year, $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant is part of a total $43 million teacher quality partnership.
• Expert fears jobless rate will grow (WAVY TV 10 Portsmouth)
  posted on November 7, 2009 at 04:57:47 am
  The jobless rate has hit double-digits for first time in 25 years.

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