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College Info Center Seeks Spring 2025 Student Interns for NOVA Corps

October 29, 2024 / Our Nighthawks

NOVA Corps, a paid student internship program through Student Affairs is recruiting additional current students for spring 2025 to help prospective, new and current students start and finish strong at NOVA. The mission of NOVA Corps is to develop NOVA students’ professional skills needed for jobs after college while providing peer-to-peer support.  General Description: Student … Continued

Recap of Eighth Annual National Writing Day

October 29, 2024 / ICYMI (In Case You Missed It)

The National Writing Day returned with a bang! This annual event, in its eighth year, was held on Friday, October 25 at the Long Nguyen & Kimmy Duong Forum (CE Forum) on the Annandale Campus! Beginning with a beautiful exhibition of student work on the power of writing, students had the opportunity to present their … Continued

Food For Fines! A New Program From Parking Services

October 29, 2024 / General NOVA News

Parking Services will be launching a program where you can pay for parking citations while making a positive impact on our community by donating non-perishable food items to the NOVA food pantries. Contributions can waive one citation and help individuals with food insecurities. For a list of eligible items and more information, please visit our … Continued

President’s Sabbatical Award Application Deadline, Nov. 1

October 29, 2024 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

The President’s Sabbatical Award application is now open. Teaching, administrative and professional faculty, consider applying. Read on for information on guidelines, eligibility and a link to the application. The President’s Sabbatical Award is designed to foster creative energy by providing faculty with one semester of sabbatical leave with full pay. Each academic year, a maximum … Continued

CommonHealth Wellnote

October 29, 2024 / Get Well

How can your Virginia State Employee Wellness Program help? CommonHealth’s programs and campaigns cover a variety of health topics and are available in a range of formats to meet the needs of different workplaces. Highly skilled Wellness Consultants provide the latest on stress, sleep, nutrition, exercise and more for faculty/staff meetings, special events, conferences, benefit … Continued

Legal Resources and ORPHE Open Enrollment Open thru Oct. 31

October 29, 2024 / HR News/Training

Open enrollment is underway for several important resources. Please read on for information on Legal Resources and ORPHE open enrollment: LEGAL RESOURCES Legal Resources open enrollment will run through October 31, with an effective date of January 1, 2025. Legal Resources is a benefit available for NOVA employees. This provides up to 100% coverage, depending … Continued

Streamline Group Projects and Enhance Student Engagement with Collabs in Canvas

October 29, 2024 / Tech Notes & Training

Learn the steps to creating opportunities for student teamwork and engagement. Using the Canvas Collaboration tool for documents and projects using VCCS Google accounts. Students can collaborate with the instructor individually or with groups in the class. This 30-minute webinar will give you the skills to apply these strategies this semester. Register for Collaborations in … Continued