Deborah DiCroce to Step Down as President of Tidewater Community College

Deborah DiCroce, president of Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past 13 years, has announced that she will step down. On March 1, 2012, Dr. DiCroce will become president and CEO of the nonprofit Hampton Roads Community Foundation. Before taking over as president of Tidewater Community College in 1998, Dr. DiCroce was president of Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville. She began her academic career teaching English at the Virginia Beach campus of Tidewater Community College.

President DiCroce holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Old Dominion University. She earned an educational doctorate at the College of William and Mary.