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Fall 2020 New Student Orientation for Adult Learners

May 28, 2020 / Events

NOVA Annandale will host a Fall 2020 New Student Orientation for Adult Learners, Wednesday, August 12, from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. This session will be virtual, via Zoom This session is for students who are: 25 years and older first-time in college students; transferring into NOVA from another college/university (all ages); returning to college … Continued

Dr. Cathy Cogdill Receives Enrollment Mgt. Special Assignment

May 28, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

Congratulations to Dr. Cathy Cogdill who will help lead NOVA’s recruitment and enrollment efforts. Under the direction of the Vice President of Student Services, and in collaboration with campuses and other college units, Dr. Cogdill will provide leadership to the campuses in creating and implementing recruitment strategies that achieve the goals for inquiries, applicant conversion … Continued

Upcoming STEMinars!

May 28, 2020 / Events

Upcoming STEMinars that may be of interest to the NOVA community as well as to the kids! Advanced registration required. Tuesday, June 2 10 a.m.   All Things Cool About 3D Printing 7 p.m.     Inkscape 4A: Culinary Design Challenge Tuesday, June 9 7 p.m.     Inkscape 4B: Engineering Design Challenge

FSRC Staff Go Above and Beyond for NOVA

May 28, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

The Faculty and Staff Resource Center (FSRC) at NOVA-Annandale is lucky to have Hector Revollo and Kama Storie leading their efforts to assist staff and faculty with every sort of technology training. They have been indispensable over this past year as NOVA began transitioning to Canvas, and certainly this semester during the change to remote … Continued

Check Your Canvas Courses for Broken Links

May 28, 2020 / General NOVA News

Do you want to verify all external links in your course to ensure validity? You can check these links using the Course Link Validator, which searches your entire course and returns invalid or unresponsive links in both published and unpublished content. This validator checks for external links as well as course links. View more about … Continued

RS3 #Shoutouts

May 22, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

As many of you may know, our Remote Student Support Specialists (RS3s) have stepped up to help be a caring connection to students during our remote learning and service provision.They have taken the reigns and run with the opportunity to serve students not currently assigned to a faculty advisor, by providing a compassionate ear/email, answering … Continued

Annandale English Professor Named to National Committee

May 22, 2020 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

Steve Lessner, Annandale Campus Associate Professor of English, was chosen by the Conference on College Composition and Communication to chair their Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, which will present two annual awards to outstanding college instructors of first-year writing starting in 2021. “I am very excited that this Teaching Award has been established specifically for excellent … Continued

VRS MEMBER NEWS Available for VRS Participants

May 22, 2020 / HR News/Training

The May 2020 edition of the VRS Member News is now available. VRS Member News is an electronic newsletter available to all members of the Virginia Retirement System. The communication provides subscribers with the most up-to-date news regarding VRS financials, legislative changes and other important retirement information. To automatically receive your free quarterly edition directly, … Continued

Reminder: Mandatory Training Deadline Extended to May 31

May 22, 2020 / HR News/Training

Admin Council has approved an extension to the mandatory training deadline, which is now Sunday, May 31. As a reminder, all full-time faculty and classified staff (including part-time classified P-3 employees) must complete the four required modules in NOVA Academy/COVLC. Google Chrome is the best browser in which to complete the training. Adjunct faculty and … Continued