Heidi Adamson Retires After 31 Years of Service to NOVA

Ms. Heidi Adamson will be retiring from NOVA after 31 years of service in various roles on three different NOVA campuses (Manassas, Woodbridge and Annandale). Adamson began her career teaching ESL and was actively involved in numerous college initiatives in English as a Second Language and international education and helped establish the Center for Culture and Language, a precursor to the American Culture and Language Institute (ACLI). She also developed a series of seven trainer workshops that formed the foundation of NOVA’s Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate program. She served as a founding member of the Blue Ribbon Panel and represented NOVA and the Mid-Atlantic region on the Community College Consortium for Immigrant Education. She served as an onsite consultant to Yildez Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey), traveled to Goiania, Brazil to promote Science without Borders, represented NOVA on a College Board visit to China, and hosted 40+ international delegations from China and Turkey. During her tenure, she served as interim associate dean of the Communications Technologies and Social Sciences Division on the Manassas Campus and managed the Perkins grant during a Department of Education Compliance Audit.

In recent years, Ms. Adamson was a pioneer in enrollment management at NOVA. She was the first coordinator of enrollment management at the college, developing a process for effective scheduling at Manassas. As other campuses adopted these practices, she chaired the Schedulers of Classes Workgroup (SOC) as well as the Enrollment Management and Schedule Analysis Committee (EMA). Adamson also served as VCCS liaison during implementation of Ad Astra Platinum Analytics. She finished her tenure at NOVA as a special assistant to the president focused on these enrollment management efforts.

Heidi Adamson’s professionalism, love of NOVA and its students and her good cheer will be greatly missed by colleagues across the college. We wish her a happy retirement!