As you know, NOVA no longer requires employees to show proof of vaccination or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing in accordance with Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Directive Number Two and guidance from the VCCS. As a result, the college currently has a limited supply of at-home rapid tests available for employees who want them. Now NOVA employees … Continued
Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is extremely proud to announce that 11 NOVA Nighthawk students have been named semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. Through this prestigious award, the Foundation supports high-achieving community college students with a demonstrated financial need who are seeking to complete their bachelor’s degrees at selective four-year … Continued
More info on the programs below can be found at www.nvcc.edu/systemic/fablab.html. NOVA Makers This special program allows members to use the Fab Lab to work on personal projects. Membership is free to NOVA Faculty/Staff/Students and equipment training and safety orientations are provided. Monday, March 7, Open Lab, 4 p.m. until 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 8, … Continued
Fitness – What Does It Mean to Live a Healthy Lifestyle? Fitness, more specifically, physical fitness is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as: The ability to function efficiently and effectively, to enjoy leisure, to be healthy, to resist disease, and to cope with emergency situations (Oxford University Press). When thinking of this term, physical fitness, … Continued
Fall registration is right around the corner! As the 2022-2023 academic year approaches, there will be a number of important changes to NOVA curriculum, academic policies, transfer resources and credit for prior learning, largely due to the Transfer Virginia initiative. In an effort to ensure faculty and staff have access to this information in a … Continued
Last week, a member of the NOVA community reached out to me to ask why I had not issued a statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. All of us have watched this tragic event unfold in horror, and my heart goes out to the Ukrainian people and all impacted by the invasion. NOVA does … Continued
NOVA HR is seeking volunteers among our full-time employees across the College to serve as search advocates. Search advocates support NOVA’s commitment to creating a more diverse, fair, inclusive and equitable workplace by eliminating unconscious, unintentional biases and upholding transparent, inclusive search and selection practices. Search advocates will learn principles and strategies to advance NOVA’s … Continued
Please join us on Friday, March 25 from 12 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. in Annandale Campus’ CM-332 for “Compassionate Communication,” the second in a three-part series on compassion practices in the educational workspace. This workshop will help answer the question, “How might we re-see our shared spaces through compassionate communication?” How might the ways we … Continued
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Annandale Campus Library has created a new digital display! In honor of Emily Nagoski’s commitment to helping women live with confidence and joy inside their bodies, we are honoring her works along with others we think support this goal. The link to the display can be found here: … Continued
Following is a listing of DEI-related events throughout the month of March across NOVA campuses and online. Please check the DEI site throughout the month for additions or changes. Events marked with an asterisk share a specific tie to Women’s History Month. All of March* Free the Girls. Join Student Life as we collect new … Continued
