Providing resources to help you achieve financial independence and wellness remains a priority. For details on financial education offerings and resources provided by the Virginia Department of Human Resources Management (DHRM), please check out excerpts below from January’s financial wellness newsletter. Virginia Credit Union: Surviving in Today’s Economy. In times of economic uncertainty, let’s focus … Continued
Happy New Year! Let’s start the semester in service to our community. NOVA is proud to again be partnering with Volunteer Fairfax for our annual commitment to service on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 16. Below, you will find information about donating food items and ways to sign up for serve. … Continued
Today’s topic is our next strategic plan. Welcome to 2023! NOVA’s current plan, Pathway to the American Dream, runs through the end of this year, and I’m asking for your help and participation in developing our next strategic plan. Specifically, I’m seeking college community members to engage in a process to define the goals and … Continued
Annually, the Office of Student Life hosts the SEAL Awards to honor our soaring Nighthawks for their excellence and resilience spanning the areas of service, engagement, academics and leadership. Students may be observed demonstrating these notable behaviors formally or informally, on campus or out in their community and they may be known by many people … Continued
The NOVA Canvas & Educational Technology Support Services team is hosting our beginning of the semester Virtual Open House. Special sessions will be offered on January 11 and 12. (Please note the corrected dates.) Wednesday, January 11 Sessions: Math & Science Equation Tools in Canvas, 8 a.m. until 9 a.m. Annotating in the NOVA Digital … Continued
Welcome back for NOVA’s Spring 2023 term! We hope you will take time to join us for the 2023 Power Up your Pedagogy (PUP) Virtual Conference! Our annual conference began yesterday with an engaging presentation with Dr. Todd Zakrajsek on Engaging Students in a Post-Pandemic Environment as part of the Spring 2023 Faculty Convening. PUP … Continued
The Office of Enrollment Management and Student Success (EMSS) is pleased to announce that Regina Sanders will serve as the new director of the Office of Wellness and Mental Health (OWMH). Regina is a licensed Mental Health professional with more than 12 years of leadership, teaching, coaching, training and clinical experience to include crisis counseling. … Continued
There is a small committee looking at best practices, peer institutions and VCCS policies around staff and faculty roles in supporting our students in need of mental health and wellness resources. We have a short timeline but feel it is important to get feedback from the larger NOVA faculty and staff community to help inform … Continued
In response to a request from the Director of Security at Paul D. Camp Community College in Franklin, Va., NOVA Police Lt. John Weinstein presented four hours of training to college faculty and staff. Paul D. Camp Community College is one of the smallest VCCS institutions and lacks many of the training resources found here … Continued
The Form 125-016: Academic Overload, is now an online form! The deans of student success each take turns approving the forms that are submitted by students. Students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average in their most recent full-time semester, or in the semesters where 12 or more credits were earned, to be … Continued
