Teresa M. Bell joined the NOVACares office as case manager in January, serving as a consultant for the CARE Teams and Threat Assessment Team. Bell is the primary mental health liaison between NOVA and community providers and partners, she assists with developing and providing mental health resources to students and cultivates and delivers outreach programming … Continued
Jean Hellwege was born in California and moved about every two years while growing up due to being a “military brat” (as she fondly describes it). She now resides in Fairfax Station while teaching at NOVA. Hellwege has a bachelor’s degree in English from Ohio State (go Bucks!) and a law degree from Case Western … Continued
Kudos to the entire Help Desk team who muscled through last weekend’s issues with VCCS connectivity. Starting Friday afternoon and lasting into Monday, VCCS had intermittent network and system outages that affected all NOVA users. Our Help Desk team was able to quickly respond to the surge in calls by adding agents who were on … Continued
Remote Student Support Specialists (RS3s) are staff from across the college who have stepped up to be a caring connection for our students during remote learning and service delivery. They have taken the reigns and run with the opportunity to serve students not currently assigned a faculty advisor. RS3s provide a compassionate ear/email, answering questions … Continued
Remote Student Support Specialists (RS3s) are staff from across the college who have stepped up to be a caring connection to students during remote learning and service delivery. They have taken the reigns and run with the opportunity to serve students not currently assigned a faculty advisor. RS3s provide a compassionate ear/email, answering questions and … Continued
In this era of social distancing, we are closer than you think. A project that I was working on lead me to contact the 24/7 Support Center for information. Mr. Leroy Allen responded to the inquiry with an invitation to call. When we connected over the phone, the conversation went back in forth: What part … Continued
I tell my students that history is about studying the process of change over time. Or more simply, as a historian, I think about the past and what it all means. With the pandemic, I find myself thinking not just about the effect of past pandemics on societies, but a lot about my personal family … Continued
Sharon Tindall, evening administration office manager at the Annandale Campus, is putting time at home to good use! Sharon is well known for her history quilts and has shared them with people around the country. Currently, Sharon is using her excellent sewing skill to make masks for healthcare workers at the George Washington University Hospital. … Continued
On April 15, 2020, John Thomas Dever of Newport News, Virginia, loving husband, father, grandfather, and educator, passed away at the age of 74. He was born on November 10, 1945, in Lebanon, Kentucky. John was a graduate of St. Augustine High School and received his bachelor’s degree from Bellarmine College (University), his master’s degree … Continued
Faculty and staff from NOVA’s Alexandria Campus recently made lemonade out of lemons. Because there are no classes meeting on campus this spring, they had a surplus of PPE (personal protective equipment) that could be put to good use. Instead of having these supplies just sit and wait to be used, it was decided they … Continued
