Watch Your Nighthawks Take Flight! Log In for Virtual Commencement, May 5 thru 7
The day is finally upon us! We wish a Happy Graduation to NOVA’s Classes of 2020 and 2021 for their outstanding achievement!
Believe! Aspire! Achieve! These are the words we send with them into the world on NOVA’s 54th Annual Commencement. We are pleased and SO proud to honor our students and to celebrate them.
NOVA’s Commencement will be held in a series of online events across three days for the graduates of May 2020, December 2020 and May 2021. Please see the full program below.
The ceremonies will be held Wednesday through Friday, May 5 through 7, and students are divided alphabetically by last name. Here are links for each day of graduation. Feel free to log in and cheer on your special Nighthawks!
To view the ceremonies, visit the Commencement Page.
Thank you to all our faculty and staff for all you have done to ensure our students succeed here at NOVA and beyond!
Program
MESSAGE FROM FACULTY AND STAFF
Order of Speakers
PRESIDING
Dr. Donna Minnich
College Marshall & College Senate Chair
A MESSAGE FROM THE COLLEGE BOARD
Rosie O’Neil
College Board Chair
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
Dr. Anne M. Kress
President, Northern Virginia Community College
ALUMNI STORY
Dr. Teba Aljumaili
Associate Dean, Mathematics, Sciences, Technologies & Business
STUDENT STORY
Daniel Christman
2021 Student Representative to the NOVA College Board
A MESSAGE FROM NOVA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Kelly Persons
Executive Director, NOVA Educational Foundation
Special Messages from State and National Leaders
The Honorable Atif Qarni
Virginia Secretary of Education
The Honorable Mark R. Warner
United States Senate
The Honorable Tim Kaine
United States Senate
The Honorable Robert J. Wittman
United States House of Representatives
The Honorable Gerry Connolly
United States House of Representatives
The Honorable Don Beyer, Jr.
United States House of Representatives
The Honorable Jennifer Wexton
United States House of Representatives
Conferring of Degrees and Certificates
Dr. Anne M. Kress
President, Northern Virginia Community College
Presentation of Graduates
Music by NOVA’s Brass Band
Transfer Scholarship Awards
Six $1,000 transfer scholarships (two selected each evening)
will be awarded at random at the end of the graduate slide show.
Submitted by:
Hoang Nguyen, Comms, HDNguyen@nvcc.edu