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More than 700 faculty and staff gathered for this year’s Fall Convocation which highlighted teaching excellence and student success. President Robert G. Templin, Jr. provided an overview of the “State of NOVA” and charged faculty and staff with continuing NOVA’s commitment to expanding student access. Held on August 16 in the Ernst Cultural Center, convocation [...]

The 2012 Fall Convocation keynote speaker was Dr. Daniel Willingham, renowned cognitive psychologist and esteemed University of Virginia professor. Willingham’s address focused on student motivation, reasons for students not liking school, and how faculty and staff can engage their students to achieve academic success. His presentation provided faculty and staff with insight on four elements [...]

Have you visited the NOVA home page lately? If so, you may have noticed some enhancements that make the website faster, more dynamic and easier to navigate. The revamp features all the information of the previous design without the clutter, using the latest Web technologies and best practices. Best of all, NOVA’s home page is [...]

NOVA was pleased to host more than 70 new full-time faculty members at New Faculty Orientation. These new faculty members bring wonderful ideas and innovation to the 25 disciplines that they represent at all of NOVA’s academic divisions on all six campuses. The faculty spent three days in the New Faculty Orientation: NOVA and YOU, [...]

Former NOVA student Terrence Jennings brought home a bronze medal in the men’s taekwondo featherweight division during the 2012 Summer Olympics. Born and raised in Alexandria, Jennings began taekwondo at the age of 10 and moved to Miami last year to train with the U.S. Olympic team. According to his Twitter account (@TKDTJ728), Jennings had [...]

This summer, NOVA’s sySTEMic Solutions Robotics Program hosted camps for elementary and middle schoolers throughout the area. Led by several local school coaches, Regional STEM Education Coordinator for Prince William County Schools Denyse Carroll and NOVA’s sySTEMic Solutions team, the camp taught the students the value of computer programming, math, problem solving skills and more. [...]

NOVA TV has placed the 2012 Fall Convocation video online. Access the video through Blackboard by clicking “Faculty and Staff video” and then “Convocation.”

This summer, Coordinator of Counseling Ellen Fancher-Ruiz (AN), Assistant Dean of Nursing Ann-Marie John (MEC) and Associate Professor of Psychology Carolyn Lorente (AL) were selected to attend the LEADERS Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The LEADERS Institute provides leadership development for women in community colleges across the country.  The LEADERS curriculum is based on the American [...]

NOVA was very well represented at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in July. Eight full-time and adjunct Spanish professors attended the four-day conference in “La Isla del Encanto,” as Puerto Ricans call their island. They spent four busy days attending workshops and sessions like the [...]

Inspired by Paris street artist Mademoiselle Maurice, the Annandale Library staff recently designed, created and installed a large origami wall art installation to welcome faculty, staff and students back for the fall semester. The 3’ by 12’ installation imitates the shape of an open book, and includes approximately 400 cranes, medallions, tulips, fans and butterflies [...]

Annandale biology adjunct Steve Htet was invited to attend the Nobel lecture of Aung San Suu Kyi.  Htet flew to Oslo, Norway, for the June 16 ceremony. He knows Suu Kyi and was one of about 100 Burmese invited to attend. Since the auditorium held 1,000, Htet was excited to sit in the fifth row. Aung San [...]

The Alexandria Campus Library is pleased to welcome three new library specialists to the team.  Becky Chen Wu works with the circulation team, Katherine (Katie) Stramel joins the acquisitions team and Paul Chapman serves as reference assistant. Originally from Taiwan, Wu relocated from Massachusetts, where she had lived for 20 years and had been working [...]

The Technology Applications Center (TAC) has a variety of technology training offerings available for faculty and staff.  Faculty and staff can register to take advantage of the following training opportunities: Basic AIS Basic eVA Basic P-CARD Blackboard Competency and Blackboard Certification Dreamweaver Excel – Advanced Excel – Basics Excel – Intermediate Getting to Know Prezi [...]

The Office of Student Mental Health and Behavior (SMHB) and NOVA Human Resources are cosponsoring a workshop series on professional and personal development topics for all NOVA employees. The first workshop in the series was held Friday, August 17 at the Woodbridge Campus. Presented by OPTIMA EAP, the topic was “A Guide to Assertive Communication.” In [...]

A faculty member at the Alexandria Campus and a faculty member at the Woodbridge Campus have requested to participate in the leave-sharing program.  If you would like to donate leave hours, please access a Leave Sharing Program Donor Form by copying the following URL into your web browser: http://www.nvcc.edu/faculty-and-staff/human-resources/hr-forms/leave-sharing.html. Please complete the form by printing [...]

Defined benefit retirement plan provisions are changing January 1, 2013, for most non-vested Plan 1 employees. Employees become vested in the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) when they have at least 60 months (five years) of service credit. Those with prior service eligible for purchase that would bring them to the 60 months needed for vesting [...]

New regulations issued as part of the Affordable Care Act require coverage for certain preventive care services for women at no cost to members for new plan years that begin on or after August 1, 2012. This coverage is effective for state health plans on July 1, 2013. Many of these prevention-related services are already [...]

Express Scripts, Inc. and Medco completed a merger on April 2, 2012. As of September 1, 2012, the combined company will be known as Express Scripts. The company will continue as the third party prescription drug administrator for the COVA Care health plan. COVA Care members will: Receive medications without changes to the pharmacy benefit [...]

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