On Monday, the NOVA Esports League of Legends Varsity team captured their first National Junior College Athletic Association Esports (NJCAAE) National Championship in a decisive, 3-0 sweep of the Dallas County Richland Campus Thunderducks. All five Nighthawks players executed on their team strategy in each match, finding optimal chemistry and closing out a difficult semester … Continued
Hybrid learning combines the strengths of in-person interaction with the flexibility of online learning to create a dynamic and engaging educational experience. By blending in-person or live Zoom sessions with online coursework, hybrid learning allows educators to maximize the benefits of both environments to support diverse student needs. Whether you are teaching a campus-based hybrid … Continued
Check out all the stories in our the final issue of The Interface for 2024! Highlights include: NOVA and Micron Partner for Apprenticeship Panel Event NOVA Students Can Apply for the NOVA Fab Lab Product Design Incubator Engineering Tech Career Scholars Application Opens in January. HS students could get a free year at NOVA! IET … Continued
As part of NOVA’s commitment to compliance and professional development, we write to inform you about NOVA’s 2024 mandatory training requirement for all NOVA employees. All current full-time faculty, classified staff, adjunct faculty, workforce instructors, wage/P-14 employees, and contractors, are required to complete this training through Canvas by 5 p.m. on Monday, December 23, 2024. … Continued
Please save the following dates for our Spring Faculty Convening Week, January 6-9, 2025. Additional information, including Zoom links, will be posted in an upcoming issue of the Daily Flyer. Monday, January 6: Spring Convening, via Zoom. 9 a.m. until 11 a.m.: College and campus updates followed by keynote speaker Jean Twenge, author and professor … Continued
Well, the holiday season has crept up on us, and now it’s here! The final issue of The Daily Flyer for 2024 will be Friday, December 20! We will return following the break with two issues (Tuesday and Thursday) during the weeks of January 6 and January 13; and then we will be back to … Continued
In our first AcademicAffairs@NOVA, the Office of Academic Affairs informed the NOVA community about changes to credits granted for AP scores. Please read on for updated information on the new implementation timeline, which has been extended to fall 2025. The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) recently finished a review of how the 23 colleges in … Continued
The inaugural Fall 2024 NOVA CC Paralegal Torts Project Invitational challenged 14 community college paralegal students in competition by analyzing a famous torts case and creating an informational, multi-dimensional legal case display board. The winners detailed tort law significance, outlined case citation history and gave a complex oral case dissection to a panel of judges … Continued
For faculty or staff who plan to submit a proposal for any type of grant in the first months of 2025, please let the Grants Office know as soon as possible. Send an email to novagrants@nvcc.edu with the name of or link to the competition you are interested in pursuing. Thank you and Happy New … Continued
Classified staff and 12-month faculty are eligible to carry over excess leave into 2025. Excess leave is defined as any leave above the maximum carryover amount as detailed in the charts below. The leave carryover request form is available for completion now. The leave carryover form should be completed no later than Friday, December 20, 2024. … Continued
