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  • Military student profile: Meet Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaya Salmon

    Military student profile: Meet Air Force Staff Sgt. Renaya Salmon

    Renaya Salmon is an Air Force staff sergeant serving in Hampton at Joint Base Langley-Eustis seven years into date. Thomas Nelson is affording Salmon the foundation necessary to ultimately become…

  • Top Peninsula Executives, Government Officials Attend PELF

    Top Peninsula Executives, Government Officials Attend PELF

    The Peninsula’s top corporate executives and up-and-coming managers gathered Tuesday, Feb. 15 for the Peninsula Executive Leadership Forum (PELF) Winter program co-sponsored by Thomas Nelson and the Chamber at the…

  • Military Student Spotlight: Meet Army Corporal Timothy Smith

    Military Student Spotlight: Meet Army Corporal Timothy Smith

    Timothy Smith, an Army corporal serving at Fort Eustis, has his sights on a career in computer science. Smith has four years of active-duty service and views Thomas Nelson now…

  • Traveling No Worry for Basketball Player

    Traveling No Worry for Basketball Player

    A long commute hasn’t deterred Hezekiah Brown from playing basketball at Thomas Nelson. Hezekiah Brown, a first-year player on Thomas Nelson’s basketball team, said one of the biggest differences between…

  • UVA Credential Makes Three Degrees for Mathey

    UVA Credential Makes Three Degrees for Mathey

    Geri Mathey had many aspirations early on, but College was not on the radar. Born and raised in Japan, where her father worked as a civil servant at Army Camp…

  • Rarig Chosen for PTK’s Distinguished Administrator Award

    Rarig Chosen for PTK’s Distinguished Administrator Award

    Dr. Kris Rarig has been selected for Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s (PTK) Distinguished Administrator Award. Vice President of Student Affairs at Thomas Nelson now becoming Virginia Peninsula Community College,…

  • Kuchina, Lannon Part of ODU Transfer Program

    Kuchina, Lannon Part of ODU Transfer Program

    Thomas Nelson has articulation agreements with many four-year institutions in Virginia. Those agreements can be complicated to understand, leaving students and faculty frustrated. Now, one of those four-year state institutions,…

  • Special Interests: In it for the Long Run

    Special Interests: In it for the Long Run

    When not at work, May Carlson can often be found running; the longer the distance the better, too. May Carlson admits to being “a geek” as a youth. She wasn’t…

  • Meet Presidential Ambassador Sharena Marsh

    Meet Presidential Ambassador Sharena Marsh

    Sharena Marsh is among four students participating in the College’s Presidential Ambassador Program for 2021-22. She serves as an ambassador at the Historic Triangle Campus in Williamsburg. Students in the…

  • College Aced Fifth-Year Interim Report to SACSCOC

    College Aced Fifth-Year Interim Report to SACSCOC

    Thomas Nelson Community College’s Fifth-Year Interim Report to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) earned a stellar review. The news came on Jan. 12 when…