Employee Highlights

Congrats to Bianca Vasquez – District Employee of the Month

Bianca Vasquez Certified Academic Advisor Northwest Vista College Bianca Vasquez has served as a certified academic advisor with Northwest Vista College for five years. As an advisor, she guides and mentors students from entry to completion towards achieving their academic and career goals. Along with her fellow advisors, she has worked collaboratively with various Academic

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February Employee of the Month: Lisa McDaniel

Lisa McDaniel Strategic Communications Coordinator NVC Marketing & Strategic Communication What her peers say anonymously:  Lisa exemplifies many touchstones including creativity, synergy and joy. This year and last year, Lisa excelled at openness because no matter what has been presented to her, she has met the challenge and flourished as a result of it. In

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Employee Highlights

Wildcat Spirit Award: Necola Glaze

Necola Glaze Enrollment Coach at Vista Central The Business Office nominated Necola Glaze, enrollment coach at Vista Central for her exceptional work on the Fresh Start program. Necola and the Business Office have become great partners by learning and helping each other through this new program. We have greatly appreciated her friendly demeanor and have

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Alamo Accolades Featuring NVC Employees

IT Department NVC “The NVC IT Team is amazing while providing ongoing support remotely! The team has kept safety a priority while providing no-contact delivery of technology equipment. Thank you for your dedication and continuing to utilize creative solutions to serve our students and employees!” English and INRW Tutoring NVC “Caroline Kuyumcuoglu and her team

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Helping Others Go Remote

Like most of the academic chairs across Northwest Vista College, Joy Qiaoying, chair of Northwest Vista College’s Math and Engineering department, has seen her area go above and beyond to transition to an online environment. She said “kudos goes out to our lab supervisors, grant leaders, and coordinators who work tirelessly to find alternative solutions

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Key Terms for Remote Teaching

These terms apply to all full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty for use during any period of time in which a continuity of instruction plan would be in place: Asynchronous Communication Relay of information with a time lag. Discussion forums and email are two examples of how asynchronous communication is employed in remote learning. Remote Learning

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Emerging Leaders 2020

Congratulations to the new group of employees for the Alamo Colleges Emerging Leaders Program that started in January 2020. The group will go through five-and-a-half month leadership development program founded on Franklin Covey’s process-focused content: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results. The NVC employees were selected by the NVC executive team in order to prepare

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Bandera Library Features William Keith’s Artwork

Northwest Vista College Art faculty William Keith will give a gallery talk on Saturday, March 28 at noon at the Bandera County Library at 515 Main St. in Bandera, Texas. His artwork is currently on display at the library through March 31. During his presentation, he will explain the meaning of his work and the techniques

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Helping Instructors How to Use Zines

Rose Rodriguez, Dawna Upshaw and Veronica Luna of Northwest Vista College recently presented “Zines as a Pedagogical Tool and an Exemplar of Faculty-Librarian Collaboration” at the Palo Alto College Faculty Symposium: Celebrating Scholarship and Teaching on Feb. 28. A zine (zeen), short for “fanzine” or “magazine” is an independently published booklet and is created with the methods of

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Employee Highlights

What Faculty are Doing Beyond the Classroom

Tim Hedgepeth – Directed the production of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, currently playing at the Public Theater’s Russell Hill Rogers Theater. He’s also starring in “Admissions” in the Public Theater’s Cellar Theater, opening this weekend. Michelle Pietri – With her husband, Bill McCrary, co-directed and choreographed a very successful production of “The

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Hector Trevino Receives Patriotic Employer Award

Congratulations to Northwest Vista College Math Coordinator Hector Trevino who recently was awarded the Patriotic Employer Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Employer Support of The Guard and Reserve. Given by ESGR’s James Cunningham, the award is given for Hector’s “contributions to national security and protecting liberty and freedom by supporting employee

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25th Anniversary Fun

Employees and staff are finding creative ways to celebrate Northwest Vista College’s 25th year anniversary. To create student and employee engagement, NVC Marketing & Strategic Communications gave out t-shirts for people to screen print their own shirts with a 25th anniversary design. Additionally on Feb. 20, several employee departments hosted the inaugural NVC Beans &

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