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New College Risk Management Coordinator

Garvin Dansby is the new coordinator of College Risk Management for Northwest Vista College. He has oversight for the campus occupational safety, and emergency preparedness programs. Garvin’s breath of experience include managing risk and safety in the military (US Air Force retired), manufacturing, local government, public utilities and nonprofit organizations. Garvin earned a B.S. in Management

October 13, 2017 No Comments

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New Name, Same Mission

The Northwest Vista College Staff Council will soon become the Northwest Vista College Staff Senate. Although the name has changed, its mission to enhance the professionalism of all staff members by increasing access to information, participation, communication and recognition is as strong as ever. NVC Staff Senate will accomplish its goals by: Representing the concerns

September 29, 2017 No Comments

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Graciela Sanchez and Bridget Torres

Graciela Sanchez Student Success Advising Team Support Specialist Graciela Sanchez was recently nominated Northwest Vista College Employee of the Month at the September Bragging Breakfast meeting. Her colleagues said she has a great attitude. She is always very positive and is always willing to go the extra mile for her team and students. Graciela is

September 28, 2017 No Comments

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NVC Community Health Participate in City Parade

Alumni and current students from Northwest Vista College’s Community Health Worker program recently participated in the Diez y Seis de Septiembre Parade and Celebration honoring Mexico’s independence at the Avenida Guadalupe Association on Sept. 16. Faculty member Guadalupe Cornejo said participating in the parade was very significant and empowering. She added the goal was to

September 26, 2017 No Comments

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Workforce Donates Shirts & Dr. Guevara Gets Impressive Appointment

NVC Workforce Donates Shirts to High School Students This past week, Workforce Education and Training donated college shirts to the Communities in Schools organization. Communities in Schools “does whatever it takes to help at-risk students stay in school and succeed in life”. Mary Brown of Communities in Schools, (in the picture) was thrilled to get

September 15, 2017 No Comments

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Welcome Charlie Young & Bits Sirchia

Charlie Young Charlie Young is the latest addition to the NVC Teaching with Technology department as an Academic Program Specialist. He earned a BA and MA in Convergent Media from the University of the Incarnate Word while serving as web editor for the student run newspaper, The Logos, and as a photographer for the Office of Communications

September 14, 2017 No Comments

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Math Orientation Helps Students & NVC Employees Present at Conference

Math Orientation Helps Students The Title V Project Math Paths (PMP) Team offered a second successful MATH 1414 Orientation for fall 2017. This orientation was initiated by Anna Harwin (Math faculty), because of low success rates for STEM students enrolled in MATH 1414. The orientation was conducted from Aug. 22 through Aug. 23 and was

September 14, 2017 No Comments

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New Positions – Analysa and Dustyn

Analysa Castillo Welcome to Analysa Castillo, the new administrative assistant to the Dean for Arts and Science department at Northwest Vista College. Analysa attended NVC for the past two years and received an Associate of Arts in Teaching, EC-6, 4-8 this past May. She transferred to Texas A&M San Antonio for the fall of 2017

August 28, 2017 No Comments

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New Faculty Luncheon & Staffers

The new faculty luncheon was held on Wednesday, Aug. 23 to give an opportunity for faculty to meet Northwest Vista’s leadership team. This semester, NVC hired 13 full-time faculty and four full-time temporary faculty. They range in disciplines from Social Sciences, Math, Natural and Physical Science, and Workforce academic programs. Some of the faculty members shared some

August 28, 2017 No Comments

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Recruitment Participates in Tricentennial Recruitment Event

Northwest Vista’s Cathy Gonzalez of the Recruitment team recently attended a college-wide vendor exhibit at the Summer Institute on July 14. The theme for this year’s Summer Institute was the “The Future of San Antonio (College & Career Readiness)”, and all of the vendors were San Antonio-area universities and colleges. The Summer Institute is an annual event

July 27, 2017 No Comments

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Faculty Member Gets Published

Melinda Zepeda, who serves as associate professor of English at Northwest Vista College, recently had her short fiction piece titled “Getting Educated” published in the anthology, “¡Basta! 100+ Latinas Against Gender Violence,” a project supported by the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. National Public Radio featured the anthology in a 2015

July 27, 2017 No Comments

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Accommodating Student at All Hours

This summer marks the first time in Northwest Vista College history that a class is being taught at 6 a.m. When it’s still dark outside, students are heading to Gary Bowling’s History class for an upbeat lecture and coffee. Typically NVC offers classes at 6:30 am for those early-bird students, but this is the first

June 29, 2017 No Comments