POST ELECTION CONFERENCE | 2013 Virginia Elections
The conference will include discussions on:
Morning Program (09:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.) | AA-196 (Bisdorf Building)
Evening Program (07:30 p.m. – 09:00 p.m.) | AA-158 (Bisdorf Building)
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Linda Rodriguez | lirodriguez@nvcc.edu
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and the NOVA Sustainability Office are very proud to announce an event in which we see pedagogical practices in the context of civic issues & environmental sustainability.
You won’t want to miss it!
How We Learn on Campus Tells us about Life Issues in our Larger World
A case study in using the campus as a living, learning Laboratory.
Dr. Catherine Middlecamp
Professor, Environmental Studies in the Nelson Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday, November 21st
Annandale Campus, CE Forum
Talk 10:30 to 11:45 AM
Workshop 1:15 to 3:15 pm (limited to 30 participants)
Register for the talk using this link.
Register for the workshop using this link.
Dr. Middlecamp also holds a joint appointment in the Integrated Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an affiliate faculty member of the Chemistry Department. Her work lies at the intersection of science, people, and the planet.
As one example, Middlecamp is the editor-in-chief for Chemistry in Context, a 25-year national curriculum project of the American Chemical Society.
She has been nationally recognized for her work in many ways, including being elected a fellow of the Association for Women in Science (2003), of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), and of the American Chemical Society (2009). She also is a member of the National Fellowship Board of SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Responsibilities and Engagements) and in 2011 was awarded the William E. Bennett Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Citizen Science.
Dr. Middlecamp will present a morning seminar that is open to all faculty and staff, in which she describes a course that she teaches that will show us how to expand our teaching practices into the real world of our campus and college as we learn how to use our campus as a living, learning laboratory.
This will be followed by an afternoon workshop that can accommodate thirty people. Dr. Middlecamp will provide the how-to of engaging students in learning about the quality of their own lives on the planet.
From Dr. Middlecamp:
When it comes to learning how energy, food, water, and waste are handled on a college campus, the answers are not in the back of the book. In fact, there is no book! Even so, every campus offers its instructors an amazing number of stories about buildings, grounds, transportation, water, and the energy infrastructure. This talk tells some of these stories with an eye to how they can be used to engage students in learning about science (generally), about sustainability (more specifically) and about improving the quality of life on our planet both today and tomorrow.
Faculty who teach (or want to teach) blended and online courses are invited to participate in any of ELI’s November TOTAL workshops:
The workshops are facilitated online in Blackboard and involve reading/viewing assignments, application assignments, and interaction with colleagues. See the TOTAL project website (https://sites.google.com/a/email.vccs.edu/vccs-total-project/home-1/workshops) for specific workshop descriptions. Each workshop requires 5 – 8 hours of work per week. Consider the workload carefully before registering for multiple workshops at the same time. Most TOTAL workshops are repeated each semester.
Registration for the November workshops is open now and closes at noon on November 8. To register for a workshop:
Questions? Contact Bob Loser (rloser@nvcc.edu).
PARKING ON NOVEMBER 5th | Voting Day
Parking Lot A-8 will be used for voter parking, due to the construction of the Beauregard Parking Deck.
We are asking that Tyler Building Faculty and Staff park in the BACK of the Tyler Building on Tuesday, 05 November 2013.
This will allow available parking for our voters in the front of the Tyler Building on that day.
CONTACT:
For more information please contact Mike Delchamp | mdelchamp@nvcc.edu or Marc Henderson | mhenderson@nvcc.edu
“CALL ME CRAZY” | Screening and Panel Discussion
The Alexandria Psychology Department and Women’s Center present the film “Call Me Crazy!”
We will follow the screening with a panel discussion. The movie examines emotional health and support for psychological conditions.
The event is FREE and open to the public.
Please consider giving students extra credit for attending.
Thursday, 07 November 2013
4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
AA-196.
CONTACTS:
For more information please contact Dr. Elizabeth C. Lanthier | Professor of Psychology | elanthier@nvcc.edu
Feeling a little stressed?
Need a break?
Been here five years or more?
APPLY FOR THE PRESIDENT’S SABBATICAL!
(in two easy steps)
The deadline is December 1, 2013.
Only Full-Time Faculty Members can apply
To apply, complete the following:
That’s all!
The members of the Personnel Services Committee will review all proposals and offer recommendations to Dr. Templin.
Dr. Templin will choose the winners in the spring.
Upon your return from sabbatical, you will present your work, findings, whatever to the faculty at the College Convocation.
Send your application to Assoc. Dean Jami Yazdani (jyazdani@nvcc.edu), head of the Personnel Services Committee, by December 1st!
Have questions? Need help putting your idea on paper? – Contact Steph Sareeram, AL’s faculty representative on Personnel Services, at (703) 845-6015 or ssareeram@nvcc.edu.
The Mindfulness in Teaching Faculty Learning Community (FLC) of
The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Invites you to a special open meeting of the FLC
A Presentation by Dr. Elise Labbé
Author of Psychology, Moment by Moment
Wednesday, November 6th
12 pm to 1:30 PM
Annandale Campus CS 238
Please Register for this event here.
Dr. Elise Labbé, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL and clinic director of the USA Psychological Clinic. She has published numerous research papers in clinical and health psychology and presents at national and international conferences. Labbé, has earned several awards including the Phi Kapppa Phi Scholar of the Year Award, the Orurobors Award, Who’s Who in Biobehavioral Sciences, and university excellence in teaching and service awards. She is the editor in chief of Journal of Sport Behavior and is on the editorial of Journal of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, and has been invited to review a number of clinical and health psychology journals.
Labbé teaches and researches mindfulness and has practiced meditation for over thirty years.
She is currently co-authoring a book chapter on mindfulness, You Tube, and the brain with Dr. Andrée E. C. Betancourt, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Theater and Film at Northern Virginia Community College.
Colleagues – – Registration Continues!
Power Up Your Pedagogy
(PUP)
The Ninth Annual Power UP your Pedagogy (PUP) Conference is OPEN FOR REGISTRATION! All Faculty and Professional Staff are cordially invited.
It is an online registration—Just click on this link.
http://www.nvcc.edu/faculty-and-staff/teaching-support/cetl/conference.html
And then on the Registration Tab.
(Faculty relaxing in the 2013 conference lounge)
PUP is an exciting, award-winning, professional development conference that brings all NOVA faculty together. PUP is YOUR conference presented by YOUR colleagues. You will leave with amazing new insights about the best teaching practices, the best teaching tips and tricks and the very best ideas about teaching and especially about teaching at NOVA! Cluster Meetings are also part of the conference.
The 2014 PUP 21st Century Teaching & Learning
January 8th and 9th on the Annandale Campus
Register Now!
We have reviewed some wonderful proposals and have exciting speakers for the conference. You will see the following:
Every attempt is being made to be sure that everyone, even those who only attend Cluster Meetings, receives a lunch. The lunches are the single largest expense for PUP. In these tight economic times, it is imperative that we have an accurate count of those who wish lunch. The only way to count YOU is by your registration. You must register even if you only plan to attend the Cluster meetings.
Eugene Malts
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENT ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT
Where do I start? I remember how I was debating with myself concerning my future. It was summer in Russia. Meanwhile, I was sitting on the corner of the street in my hometown in Siberia. The debate was concerning my future life, to be exact, should I move to the USA or to stay where I belong, in Siberia? In this particular case, I believe my major experience is the immigration to the USA.
It is August of 2012, and I’m taking a placement test to measure my English language skills. The test placed me in an ESL class, where I belong.
During my ESL experience for almost 1.5 year, I’ve struggled and didn’t get any useful advice from surrounding me people due to limited English.
In my last level of the ESL, I realized something that will change my views, and an attitude towards the education.
My friends and I decided to open an interest group to gather those shy, inexperienced, and, you know, brilliant students all over the campus to help them adjust to American college system and, of course, improve their English. Obviously, our advisors made a crucial impact on our club. The most important thing is to believe that we can make it. Imagine the amateur group of students with noble spirits evolved into the established club. As the president, I’m learning how to lead and how to be a good role model for those, like me in the past, who is struggling.
I would never imagine that the idea was so successful and we built up a team, which is working hard to make sure our moral to help brilliant students’ works.
After a year and a half of hard work, I’m sitting in a college composition class debating on George Orwell’s works in my head. Did I mention that I finished struggling? No, I’m still struggling, learning more and believe that impossible could be possible. And there is a tip to a Good Samaritan: hard work always pays off.
DR. IZANNE ZORIN
BIOLOGY PROFESSOR
SCIENCE, BUSINESS, AND TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
ALEXANDRIA CAMPUS
A long time ago I was a combat medic in the Army National Guard out of South Carolina. People find this interesting because I am a small person and a nerd – so it just goes to show that you can’t judge a book by its cover. I appreciate my 7 years with the National Guard – I met wonderful people, had access to great equipment and had amazing experiences. I enlisted to get the funding to complete my undergraduate degree, and the military did provide me with the GI Bill and other programs so that I graduated college with almost zero debt. While training as a non-commissioned officer, I met my husband of 20 years – so I can thank the Army for that too.
While deployed during the first Gulf war, my unit was tasked with running a hospital on a military base in Saudi Arabia. The photograph is of me in the ER with an Egyptian nurse, Adnan, who made friends with all of us (he also proposed marriage to almost all of us women medics). After seeing American and Iraqi soldiers and Saudi civilians with serious injuries and burns, I realized that we are all the same: when we are in pain or scared, we all need support and understanding regardless of our country of origin, race or religion. Although I haven’t been in the military for years now, I will always be grateful for that experience. Go Army!