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Graduation Prep. Sessions Thru February–Grads Must Register by March 1! Please remind your Nighthawks who are in the final classes to complete their NOVA degree or certificate that they must apply for graduation by March 1. However, graduation preparation includes more than just applying to graduate! Counselors will facilitate five Graduation Prep Sessions to assist … Continued
Judy Gomez and Rima Gulshan have become co-advisors to a new student-centered creative writing club called Nighthawk Creative Writer’s Nest. The club invites students from all disciplines to join so we can work on writing across the curriculum. This is a peer-reviewed creative writing group that supports fellow club members’ writing by providing constructive critique … Continued
Graduation Prep. Sessions Thru February–Grads Must Register by March 1! Please remind your Nighthawks who are in the final classes to complete their NOVA degree or certificate that they must apply for graduation by March 1. However, graduation preparation includes more than just applying to graduate! Counselors will facilitate five Graduation Prep Sessions to assist … Continued
NOVA provides on-going communication with students to ensure they have access to information they need and want! Nighthawk News is sent every two weeks. However, we still had a lot of start-of-the-semester information to share, so we decided to send another issue. We send this along to faculty and staff so you can see what … Continued
Dual-enrolled students at Arlington Career Center (ACC), part of Arlington Public Schools, competed at the annual National Leadership and Skills Conference and SkillsUSA Championships in Atlanta, this past summer. Taught by instructor Tom O’Day, these students were enrolled in PHT-130 and PHT-131 at their high schoo. The event was a great success for the ACC … Continued
There is an exciting new initiative from the NOVA Career Counseling team: the Career Ladder workshop series. We’ve noticed that students often express interest in a given field yet are not fully aware of the wide array of opportunities, educational requirements, and companies with which they may pursue employment. Therefore, the Career Ladder workshop series … Continued
Research Interns Opportunity for NOVA Degree-seeking Students – The NSF I/UCRC (National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers) for Spatiotemporal Thinking, Computing and Applications (stcenter.net) is looking for NOVA students to serve as research interns at George Mason University’s campus during spring 2023. This paid internship is open to NOVA degree-seeking students with programming skills and logic thinking. … Continued
NOVA provides on-going communication with students to ensure they have access to information they need and want! We send this along to faculty and staff so you can see what students see, and you can help direct them to important information they need to know. Peruse the latest edition of Nighthawk News for super important … Continued
Mildred Waller always remembered what her mother said: “It is never too late to accomplish your goals. It’s only too late if you never try.” For Mildred, her babies and family always came first, and that’s the way it was for her mother. As a few decades rolled by while raising her family, Mildred saw … 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