Please mark your calendars for the first President’s Zoom Office Hours of 2021. The chat box will be open for questions during the sessions, as always. Monday, Feb. 22 9 a.m. — Teaching Faculty Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://vccs.zoom.us/j/84671109674 Passcode: 853509 Or iPhone one-tap: US: +13126266799,,84671109674#,,,,*853509# or +16465588656,,84671109674#,,,,*853509# Or Telephone: … Continued
On behalf of VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium, NOVA Libraries are pleased to announce that the Request for Proposals for the next round of VIVA Open Course Grants (formerly Course Redesign Grants) is officially open! Applications are due Feb. 23, and award notification will take place on May 14. VIVA Open Course Grants are designed … Continued
In advance of her February zooms, President Kress encourages you to share your thoughts about what has worked in our service to students during the pandemic—practices that you think NOVA should continue (and maybe even expand) when we return to our campuses. She will highlight the highest ranked ideas in the Open Office Hours next … Continued
Spring Training with the Advising Academy is a collection of tips, tricks, best practices workshops and videos to help take your advising “game” to the next level. “Practice” your case management skills, “come off the bench” with best-practices for helping students in Chat, “hit a home-run” with tips on connecting with students in a remote … Continued
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The college is pleased to announce the rewards and recognition program for NOVA employees, which now has two distinct components. REWARDS The rewards program is a nomination-based program that provides awards up to $2,000 for full-time teaching faculty, full-time administrative and professional faculty, full-time classified staff and (new this year) adjunct faculty. Nominations will be … Continued
Did you know that according to uncf.org, historically black colleges and universities produce almost 20% of all African American college graduates and 25% of African American graduates in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. And HBCU’s graduate the most African Americans seeking doctoral degrees in science and engineering of all U.S. colleges … Continued
It’s been wonderful to start a couple mornings each month with you over coffee and conversation. If you haven’t yet signed up for a coffee chat or wish to join another, you can register for the Feb. 24, March 4 or March 19 chats by emailing PresidentsOffice@nvcc.edu. The coffee chats run 8 a.m. until 9 a.m. … Continued
NOVA Online offers a series of webinars to promote best practices in teaching hybrid and online courses throughout a semester. The first webinar in the spring semester is “Teaching Remotely at a Pandemic Time: Strategies for Student-Centered Learning in a Hybrid Remote and Online Format.” This event will be held on Friday, Feb. 19, from … Continued
NOVA Emeritus Professors Robert Loser and Reva Savkar have established a program to provide grants for students who have been program-placed in nursing and health sciences at NOVA’s Medical Education Campus, have completed at least one semester in the program and maintained a 2.0 grade point average. Administered by the NOVA Foundation, the Loser-Savkar You … Continued
