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Fiscal year-end activities are currently underway in the Controller’s Office in preparation for year-end closing on June 30, 2013. In order to ensure all expenses are processed out of the correct funding year, all invoices, check requests, and travel expense reimbursements must be received in the Controller’s Office no later than Friday, June 14. Any [...]

NOVA student Oyudari Baatartsogt has been awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. She graduated summa cum laude from NOVA in May 2013 with an associate of arts degree in psychology. Baatartsogt, 22, of Arlington was one of 73 students nationally to receive the prestigious award. The scholarship, which provides up to $30,000 [...]

Angela Gunder and Laura Franklin are recipients of the 2013 Merlot Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire award. MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) created the award to honor the hard work and generous time members provide toward the growth and development of the initiative. Specifically, recipients completed the MERLOT GRAPE (Getting Reviewers Accustomed to [...]

  Members of the NoVaHealthFORCE CEO Roundtable met at the Medical Education Campus on April 29. The CEOs of the region’s colleges and healthcare organizations wanted to meet with principals from Jobs for the Future (JFF), the group that will be updating the Healthcare Workforce Study originally commissioned in 2008. Under the leadership of President [...]

Yen Trinh Bui from the Loudoun Campus has 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 and submitting it to Human Resources by fax [...]

Fiscal year end activities are currently underway in the Controller’s Office in preparation for year-end closing on June 30, 2013. In order to ensure all expenses are processed out of the correct funding year, all invoices, check requests, and travel expense reimbursements must be received in the Controller’s Office no later than Friday, June 14. [...]

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) will upgrade our current version of Blackboard to Service Pack 11 (SP11), which provides users with contemporary design, improved accessibility features and some long-awaited functionality. The upgrade is scheduled to occur May 17 to May 19. During this time Blackboard will be down and unavailable. The new features and enhancements to [...]

To ensure benefit premiums are current through the summer months, premiums for the months of May and June for participating 9-month faculty members on the 18 pay cycle will be deducted on the May 16, 2013 payroll for the following benefits: Health, Optional Group Life, UNUM Long Term Disability, AFLAC, Colonial and Insurance Company of [...]

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On March 27, Jose Lezcano, a Lyceum speaker, guitarist and composer, was at the Woodbridge Campus for a concert and lecture. Lezcano presented a variety of musical styles including indigenous strummers in ritual festivals from Ecuador, Gaucho music from Argentina, European parlor waltzes from Venezuela and Afro-brazilian samba-pagode. He played pieces by Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Lauro, [...]

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) will upgrade our current version of Blackboard to Service Pack 11 (SP11), which provides users with contemporary design, improved accessibility features and some long-awaited functionality. The upgrade is scheduled to occur May 17 to May 19. During this time Blackboard will be down and unavailable. The new features and [...]

Registration is underway for summer basketball camps and NOVA faculty/staff get a special discounted rate. NOVA is hosting boys basketball camp July 8 to 11 and girls camp July 15 to 18 at the NOVA Annandale Campus Ernst Gym for ages 9 to 14. The time is 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and the fee [...]

The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation sponsors the Outstanding Service to the College Awards that includes a $1,500 check, a plaque, and recognition at both the Fall commencement and Foundation dinner. There are three awards each year to classified staff, three to teaching faculty, one to non-teaching faculty (counselors, librarians, administrators, instructional technologists), and [...]

Registration is underway for summer basketball camps and NOVA faculty/staff get a special discounted rate. NOVA is hosting boys basketball camp July 8 to 11 and girls camp July 15 to 18 at the NOVA Annandale Campus Ernst Gym for ages 9 to 14. The time is 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and the fee [...]

The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation sponsors the Outstanding Service to the College Awards which includes a $1,500 check, a plaque, and recognition at both the fall commencement and foundation dinner. There are three awards each year to classified staff, three to teaching faculty, one to non-teaching faculty (counselors, librarians, administrators, instructional technologists), and [...]

Registration is underway for summer basketball camps and NOVA faculty/staff get a special discounted rate. NOVA is hosting boys basketball camp July 8 to 11 and girls camp July 15 to 18 at the NOVA Annandale Campus Ernst Gym for ages 9 to 14. The time is 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and the fee [...]

The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation sponsors the Outstanding Service to the College Awards which includes a $1,500 check, a plaque, and recognition at both the fall commencement and foundation dinner. There are three awards each year to classified staff, three to teaching faculty, one to non-teaching faculty (counselors, librarians, administrators, instructional technologists), and [...]

Hundreds of people waited patiently for an opportunity for free dental services offered at this year’s Mission of Mercy event. In partnership with the Northern Virginia Dental Society and Northern Virginia community volunteers, nearly 800 patients were seen by 76 dentists, 31 specialists, 56 hygienists, 95 dental assistants, 27 Medical Education Campus (MEC) dental hygiene [...]

Did you know that this year NOVA has an active Forensics Team that is currently preparing for nationals while also seeking interested students for next year’s exciting season? Here is a basic overview of NOVA’s Forensics Team. Please share with your students who might be interested!  BACKGROUND The NOVA Forensics team competes in speaking events [...]

Open Enrollment for health benefits and flexible spending accounts will be May 1 to 24, 2013. More information will be sent to employees by the Department of Human Resource Management in coming weeks. There are important changes to your benefits beginning July 1, 2013, so plan to attend the DHRM Open Enrollment Meeting on April [...]