Thomas Nelson Community College, based in Hampton and James City County, will soon be called Virginia Peninsula Community College, the Virginia Community College System‘s state board voted Thursday.

HAMPTON, Va. - Another local school with ties to America's troubled past will be renamed. During a special meeting Thursday night, the Thomas Nelson Community College Board recommended to the State ...

In spring 1967, the land that would become the Peninsula’s community college was just a swampy forested tract of land. A year earlier, Gov. Mills Godwin had signed legislation creating the Virginia ...

One of Hampton Roads' community colleges is about to get a new name. The Virginia State Board for Community Colleges voted Thursday to rename Thomas Nelson Community College to Virginia Peninsula ...

The name of Thomas Nelson Community College is history. Effective Friday, the school will be called Virginia Peninsula Community College, a change two years in the making. In a unanimous February 2021 ...

Some people enroll at Thomas Nelson Community College for a certificate to foster a career switch. Others – more than 5,500 last year – work toward a two-year transferable degree, intent on completing ...

Dean of Student Life Suzy M. Nelson was named the new vice president and dean of the College at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. on Monday. During her six-and-a-half years at Harvard, Nelson has ...