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Assistant Professor Bachner Enjoying Chancellor’s Fellowship Award

January 27, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARACELI BACHNER AWARDED CHANCELLOR’S FACULTY FELLOWSHIP AWARD Araceli Bachner, Communication Studies faculty member from Alexandria Campus, was awarded the Chancellor’s Faculty Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Chancellor’s Faculty Fellowship is awarded annually to no more than three outstanding professional educators in the VCCS. Faculty members are permitted up to a year … Continued

NOVA STEM and CTE Career Exploration Fair

January 24, 2020 / General NOVA News

NOVA SySTEMic is hosting a Spring Regional STEM and CTE Career Exploration Fair at the Loudoun (LO) Campus for high school students, current NOVA students, teachers, and administrators. The event will include an overview of programs of study, student services, and enrollment at NOVA. We need representation from your department by sharing information about your … Continued

Last Day to Register for: Reading & Writing in the Disciplines Conference

January 24, 2020 / Events

Conference Theme:  Focusing on Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) and Transparent Assignment Design (TAD). Friday, January 31, 2020—8:45 AM-12:00PM—Pender 4, Room 121 (3922 Pender Drive.) Conference Agenda: 8:45-9:25 AM: Registration and Light Breakfast and Coffee 9:30-11:30 AM: Presentation on TILT/TAD with Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes 11:30-12:00 PM: Participant survey; end program Conference Registration – Registration … Continued

Streetcar 2 Subduction: Professor Callan Bentley

January 24, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

NOVA Annandale assistant professor of geology Callan Bentley was part of a team of geologists who recently published a new digital field guide to the geology of the San Francisco Bay region. Called “Streetcar 2 Subduction” in tribute to the fact the project was revising a classic book called “A Streetcar to Subduction and other … Continued

NOVA Workforce Launches New Industry-Driven Programs

January 24, 2020 / General NOVA News

NOVA Workforce is proud to announce a series of new course offerings for spring 2020! New programs include agile for project management, cloud computing, and data analytics. A few fast facts about these rapidly growing fields: · Data analysis skills were requested in 19,000 job advertisements in northern Virginia in 2019. · Demand for data … Continued

Alternative Spring Break for Students

January 23, 2020 / Events

This year, College-wide Student Life is traveling to Wilmington, North Carolina March 5th-9th for a volunteer experience with the Vigilant Hope organization that will explore homelessness, food insecurity, urban poverty, and building community. There are limited spaces and each campus has a certain amount of slots for their students to participate in.  A fun way to encourage … Continued

NOVA’s Office of International Education Welcomes 89 New Students

January 23, 2020 / Our Nighthawks

The Office of International Education and Sponsored Programs hosted its New International Student Symposium on Jan. 8, welcoming 89 new international students for Spring semester. Despite a late opening due to snow, students had the opportunity to meet other new incoming students from around the world and from their own countries. Students met Office of … Continued

Do You Know the Easiest Way to Share Canvas Content?

January 23, 2020 / General NOVA News

You can now share content from your Canvas courses with other Canvas users or across your existing Canvas courses using the Direct Share feature. Visit The Chronicles of Canvas at https://blogs.nvcc.edu/canvastraining/ to learn more about this and other new features.

We Want to Celebrate You…Our Faculty & Staff

January 23, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

NOVA has a rich history of hiring outstanding faculty & staff like you.  Thing is, many of us won’t share some of the amazing accomplishments happening on or off campus.  This year, let’s change that!   At the Daily Flyer, we’d like to celebrate your major accomplishments, opportunities to present at conferences, new publications, etc. … Continued