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Enjoy Your Colleagues’ Haiku for Community College Month!

May 16, 2023 / Tuesday Topics

Today’s topic is the sharing of the spring 2023 haiku submissions. Yesterday’s commencements were a wonderful celebration of our students’ success and your dedication to ensuring their journeys ended with a walk across the stage at graduation. Today seemed an ideal time to share the wonderful haiku many of you wrote in honor of Community … Continued

Daily Flyer to Go to Summer Publication Schedule, May 30

May 16, 2023 / General NOVA News

Beginning Tuesday, May 30, the Daily Flyer will go to its twice-weekly publication schedule for summer. We will publish each Tuesday and Thursday, until August 10, 2023. Please don’t forget us over the summer. Even we, “the summer people,” want to hear about your plans and accomplishments. We want to use this newsletter to announce … Continued

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

May 16, 2023 / HR News/Training

As a federal contractor, NOVA is required to comply with certain nondiscrimination and affirmative action recordkeeping and reporting requirements. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we are required to ask all our employees to update their information every five years. To meet this requirement, we invite employees to complete the Voluntary Self-Identification … Continued

QEP: Year One Updates!

May 16, 2023 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

The QEP Team is wrapping up a successful pilot year of Writing Ourselves In, the first of the five-year Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The QEP’s main goal is to increase success for all students in English-111. This year began with the three day Summer Institute at the Loudoun campus in August 2022, which was attended … Continued

First Summer Quality Matters Workshop to Start June 6

May 16, 2023 / Tech Notes & Training

Are you planning to take the slower pace of summer to complete a nationally recognized workshop? NOVA Online will offer multiple sessions of Applying the Quality Matters (QM) Rubric workshop, free for all NOVA faculty (full time and part time)! The QM Rubric is a national quality standard for online and hybrid courses with a … Continued

Important Financial Aid Reminders for Summer 2023

May 16, 2023 / Our Nighthawks

As we gear up for the summer term that begins the week of May 16, please take a few minutes to review these important financial aid reminders, and share them with your students. If you have any questions, please contact the Financial Aid Office. Apply for Summer Aid: Students may complete the 2022-2023 Free Application … Continued

Coming Soon–Online Professional Development with PLOMS

May 15, 2023 / Tech Notes & Training

Find  details about “Facilitated Online Workshop: Applying PLOMS to Course Revision or Redesign” on the DEI website.  What is PLOMS you ask? PLOMS is a newly developed design model that addresses presentation, language, options, measurement and support/scaffolding while highlighting fundamentals of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) and accessibility.  This asynchronous two-week Canvas workshop contains five … Continued