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NVC Personal Fitness Training Students Help Community

NVC Personal Fitness Training Students currently enrolled in FITT 1303 Fitness Event Planning and Promotion partnered up with Warrior Fitness Center LLC for their annual Community Fitness Event. NVC Personal Fitness Trainer program coordinator Teri Dimas said the Feb. 18 consisted of four-man relays on a 1,5000-meter row competition. SAPD, military, fire fighters and a few

March 24, 2017 No Comments

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Students Get Engaged in Sexual Health

NVC Counseling Services partnered with The Center for Healthcare Services (CHCS) and UNIFY (a SAMHSA grant-funded, community-based organization) to provide sexual health information, STD prevention and other resources to our students. The program materials placed special focus on consent. NVC students were invited to write their thoughts about consent onto sticky notes, and place them on

March 9, 2017 No Comments

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Collecting Artifacts for Future NVC Multicultural Research Center

Northwest Vista College government faculty Rudy De La Cruz, Jr. conducted a tour of historical sites in Von Ormy, Texas on Wednesday, March 8 for representatives of the Rivard Report, a local online magazine, which will publish a series of stories on the early history of San Antonio. Rudy and his students have been researching the early

March 9, 2017 2 Comments

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Faculty Intervention Help High School Student Get to International Comp

Contributed by Richard T. Chamblin, Jr., B.S., M.S., D.C. Northwest Vista College Chair – Natural & Physical Sciences Howard Marquise (Chemistry and Water Resource Science) and J.L. Egremy (Biology) met with a local high school student that wanted to run his science fair project by some scientists before submitting his presentation. Howard and J.L. stayed late to

March 9, 2017 No Comments

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New Support Specialist in Veterans Affairs

GailI Monsalvatge is a new student support specialist for Northwest Vista College’s Veterans Affairs department. She is responsible for providing a positive experience for students and prospective students, while assisting with the requirements necessary to utilize their VA benefits. Gail is a California native with over 30 years of work experience. Prior to moving to San Antonio, she worked in

February 23, 2017 No Comments

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Faculty Member Coaches Top Notch Robotics Team

By day, Qiaoying “Joy” Zhou is the chair of the Northwest Vista Math & Engineering. By night, she is a volunteer robotics coach for the MAKbots Robotics team. Joy said on Jan. 28, her team had a FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) Robotics League Championship and received the following awards. 1st Place Inspire Award 1st Place Control Award 2nd Place in

February 10, 2017 No Comments

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NVC Faculty Participate in Art Exhibit Honoring Mexican Women

Northwest Vista College faculty Deborah Keller Rihn and Mimi Duvall are a part of an annual exhibit at Centro Cultural Aztlan, titled “Las Mujeres de Aztlan y El Segundo de Febrero.” Centro annually celebrates this anniversary to ensure that the history of the Mexican-American people is not forgotten and this year, the exhibit will be focusing on

February 10, 2017 1 Comment

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NVC Web Design Class Nationally Recognized

Congrats to Northwest Vista College Digital Media Coordinator Viviane Marioneaux. Her IMED-Web Design II (2315) class is now nationally recognized and a certified course for meeting standards of Quality Matters standards. Quality Matters is a nationally-recognized program in which 1,300 colleges and universities throughout the world subscribe to the QM program and use the Higher Ed Rubric to

February 10, 2017 No Comments

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IT Employee Employee of the Month

Congratulations to NVC IT’s Jose Olivares for receiving Employe of the Month, Here’s what his co-workers say anonymously: “The whole college knows that they can depend on him to fix any problem that they throw his way. He never turns down a job, even if it isn’t the request he’s there for.” “Jose is a

January 20, 2017 No Comments

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New Project Facilitator at NVC

Congratulations to Janie Scott in the NVC President’s office. She has the new title of project facilitator at Northwest Vista College. Janie has worked at NVC for 16 years and will be working with Dr. Baser, the cabinet, and an advisory committee to prioritize projects. Right now her focus will be helping with the implementation of the

January 20, 2017 No Comments

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NVC Math Faculty Work with National Math Center

Congratulations to Anna Harwin and Eddie Bishop of the Northwest Vista College’s Math department for their work with the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways. They are a part of a team that now consists of Alamo Colleges District’s Jo Carol Fabianke and Mary Helen Martinez that will work with 11 other two- and four-year institutions to

January 20, 2017 No Comments

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NVC Employee President of Local Public Relations Chapter

Congratulations to Melissa Monroe-Young, APR, public information officer in NVC Public Relations. She was voted as the PRSA San Antonio Board President for the 2017 year. Under her direction, she will work with 20 board members to lead the chapter of about 200 members. The PRSA SA professional chapter is the only chapter locally for PR professionals. Annually it holds a

January 20, 2017 1 Comment