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The Partnerships Across Campus Program Starting in Fall 2007, we are unveiling an exciting initiative titled: The Partnerships Across Campus Program (herein referred to as PACP). P.A.C.P. is a mentoring program which will match one faculty or staff member with an incoming student. Students will be matched with faculty mentors who shares similar interests. Typically, a mentor and their protégé should meet a minimum of one hour per week in the fall and on an “as needed” basis in the spring. Look out around campus for more details about the PACP. Post-Election Conference at the Alexandria Campus
The Alexandria Campus Welcomes New Provost, Dr. Jonathan Gueverra
Gueverra was an associate professor of management at Bostons Wentworth Institute of Technology. Prior to that he was assistant professor and director of program development in the School of Management at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. Earlier he served as associate dean of business and career programs at Massachusetts Bay Community College and chair of business administration at Newbury College. He also has an extensive history of public service, serving in various instructor and counselor roles with the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, the Boston Workers Assistance Program, and the Mass. Dept. of Corrections. He has served internationally in numerous education and management consulting roles, and has served on numerous professional and charitable boards. His most prominent charitable activities have involved coordinating and sponsoring income tax preparation assistance programs for low-income citizens. Gueverra received his Ed.D. and his M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and his B.S. in business administration from Providence (R.I.) College. He has also received extensive formal education in numerous distance education technologies. His research in college enrollment planning and technology has been published in several prestigious journals, including The Review of Higher Education. He has also presented similar work at professional conferences throughout the eastern U.S. [From SUNY Canton] Save Lids to Save Lives In the Fight Against Breast Cancer! Students, faculty and staff are asked to participate in the Yoplait’s program by dropping off used lids into the drop boxes to be provided on campus. Each lid is worth 10 cents to be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Frances Villagran-Glover is Alexandria’s new evening administrator; her responsibilities include oversight of all academic and non-credit evening classes and oversight of classroom scheduling space. Before assuming her duties at NOVA in early August, she worked as a consultant to the American Association of Community Colleges. She has more than a decade of experience working in various community colleges settings. A native of Texas, Fran attended Texas A & M and Northern Arizona universities, where she obtained her undergraduate and master’s degrees, respectively. She is currently working on her doctorate in educational leadership from George Mason University. Fran lives in Woodbridge with her husband, Robert, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, and their seven children. AL Marks Start of Classes With Gifts, Recognition
PHOTO CAPTIONS (PHOTOS BY TRICIA HOLSER) Left: Automation/Circulation Librarian Bruce Carroll (left), Library Specialist Brandee Worsham and Coordinator of Student Activities Keith Wynn enjoy a lighter moment in the library. Right: John Min is acting dean of the Business Division; he just returned from a year of working as a mergers and acquisitions consultant for a private equity firm in New York City. NVCC Students Receive Guaranteed Admission to William and Mary The College of William and Mary can now be added to the growing list of schools offering NVCC students guaranteed admission. Dr. Monty Sullivan, Vice Chancellor for Academic Services and Research for the VCCS, announced the following: "The VCCS and the College of William and Mary have signed a Guaranteed Admissions Agreement (GAA). You can find the full text of the agreement at the following link: http://www.vccs.edu/vccsasr/agreements.htm. As we have done with each of the GAA's to this point, the VCCS will continue to work to with the College of William and Mary on logistical issues that will allow for the full implementation of the agreement." For a listing of all of the schools offering NVCC students guaranteed admissions, click here.
Dan Nechita an honors student at the Alexandria Campus and a major in Computer Science and Psychology, has won the nationally prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarship. Dan is the first student from the six campuses of Northern Virginia Community College to win this award. The scholarship will fund Dan with up to $30,000.00 a year in an undergraduate school. A native of Romania, Dan has lived in the United States for four years. His GPA at NOVA is 4.0. He is in the process of choosing a university to attend in the fall. Northern Virginia Community College Alexandria Campus Student Wins Award in National Photography Contest
Click for more information regarding the Photography Program at the Alexandria Campus. (Photo courtesy Mike Barolet)
Dat “Leo” Chu, a resident of Annandale and a student at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, was named New Century Scholar by Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), the national honor society for two-year colleges. Chu won the title for receiving the highest All-USA Academic Team score among applicants from Virginia. He received a $2,000 scholarship and represented the Commonwealth in the opening ceremonies at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) convention earlier this month in Long Beach. Photo: Acting Provost Jenny Graves and Dat "Leo" Chu. Return to current news |
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Northern Virginia Community College's Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center provided the setting for an anatomy of the 2006 Congressional elections. The December 12 seminar, jointly sponsored by the College, Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), political analyst Charlie Cook and author-lecturer James Carville, dissected the results of the mid-term elections, which led to a change in party control of both houses of Congress.
NOVA President Robert Templin opened the conference at the 1,000-seat venue, drawing a comparison between open elections and community colleges.
“America’s community colleges, like our Congressional elections, are uniquely American institutions,” Templin said. “Essentially egalitarian in nature, our electoral process and our community colleges both offer opportunities for all our citizens irrespective of race, wealth, or power, to make a difference in the communities and the nation where they live.”
Panels of experts discussed the House and Senate elections, led by Rep. Davis and Cook, respectively; Carville moderated "What Happened and Why?", an overview featuring pollsters as panelists. Carville reinforced that notion, commenting that, just as Harvard is known for its post-presidential election conferences, “NOVA now should be known for its post-Congressional election conferences.”
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SUNY Canton School of Business and Public Service Dean Dr. Jonathan Gueverra has been selected as Provost for Northern Virginia Community College's Alexandria Campus. Gueverra will complete this semester at SUNY Canton before assuming his new duties in January 2007 (
AL Campus Welcomes Frances Villagran-Glover
At AL’s convocation, Acting Provost Jenny Graves wished faculty and staff a “Happy New Year,” lauded accomplishments, recognized promotions and retirements and outlined plans for the coming academic year. One highlight is the long-anticipated construction of Phase III—expected to get underway in October—with a gross square footage of 74,997. Provost Graves welcomed new hires and acknowledged honors won—among them Professor of Art Rebecca Kamen’s Pollack Krasner Foundation grant and Assistant Division Chair (Humanities and Social Sciences) Laura Franklin’s selection as chief presenter at the November satellite videoconference, “World Languages in the Community College: the Presidential Challenge”. In closing, the provost encouraged the Campus community to join in the festivities planned for the first days of the semester. Radio stations WMZQ 98.7 and HOT 99.5 provided music as students flocked to the big tent erected outside the Bisdorf building, where they found information on the Campus, toured the healthmobile (thank you, MEC!) and admired a restored 1964 Mustang (courtesy of Learning Resources Services Director Dave Williams). Faculty and staff manned tables scattered throughout the grounds and answered questions, gave directions and distributed Campus book bags.
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Northern Virginia Community College student Mike Barolet's photograph Peter won 5th place honors in a national contest sponsored by the quarterly journal Photographers Forum. Barolet, a resident of Purcellville, will graduate in April with an associate's in applied science degree in photography. The same work garnered an award in a student photography show at the Alexandria Campus. Peter will be published in The Best of College Photography 2006 (Serbin Communications). The Photographers Forum contest attracted some 28,000 entries.
NVCC’s Alexandria Campus Student Named New Century Scholar