Employee Highlights

New HR Representatives Serving NVC

Northwest Vista College welcomes two new Human Resources professionals to assist with employee needs. Elsie Adams is the interim benefits coordinator for NVC. She’s housed at San Antonio College. She can be reached either by phone, Microsoft TEAMS or email. Her email is eadams@alamo.edu and her phone number is 210-486-1417. Thaddeus G. Fernandez is an interim Human

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New Name for WAC and New Coordinator

The Writing Across the Curriculum Lab – now called the Multidisciplinary Writing Center (MWC) – has a new coordinator Kathryn “Kate” Fischer. She recently worked in the WAC Lab as a tutor since April of 2019. MWC is still part of the national Writing Across the Curriculum Initiative. Before 2019, Kate worked at UTSA as first

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NVC Psi Beta Snags Four Awards

Congratulations to Northwest Vista College’s Psi Beta chapter. They earned four national awards for 2022. The awards are: The Chapter Excellence Award for the 2021-2022 academic year. Megan Davis (PB president) is of a select few PB members nationwide to have earned the Emerging Researcher Award, as well as the Anne Anastasi Mission Scholarship ($500). The

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Employee of the Month – Ricardo Gonzalez

Employee of the Month for May Ricardo Gonzalez Multimedia Intern NVC Marketing and Strategic Communications What his peers say anonymously “Ricardo is always kind, well-mannered and speaks highly of everyone. No matter how stressful the workload gets in our department, the nominee is always calm, collected and works diligently on each project. Chances are that

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Congrats to Don Lucas Appointed to THEC Psychology Subcommittee

Congratulations to Dr. Don Lucas, who was recently appointed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Commission to serve a three-year term on the Texas Transfer Advisory Committee’s Discipline Specific Subcommittee on Psychology. The charge of the subcommittee is to use a data-informed approach to support transfer students from community colleges, and specifically to maximize the

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Universidad Veritas Environmental Architecture Professor Visit

Architect and Director of Costa Rica’s Universidad Veritas School of Architecture, Iván Delgado Salazar, visited the San Antonio area on a “three rivers” field tour of sites where he will bring students in August. Universidad Veritas is a partner with Northwest Vista College’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department in conjunction with the Alamo College District’s

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PETA Honors NVC’s Zach Sokoloski for Compassionate Work

PETA or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently honored Northwest Vista College adjunct instructor Zach Sokoloski as part of a teacher duo for their 2022 Teacher(s) of the Year Award. TeachKind hosted PETA’s annual contest which aims to give teachers a a round of applause. Five teachers were recognized for building a more compassionate world

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Farewell to NVC Advocacy Interns

The Northwest Vista College Advocacy team is grateful and sad to see their latest group of interns move on with their careers. Six interns, who will be soon receiving a degree in Master of Social Work (M.S.W.), worked with the Advocacy team that helps nearly 200 students a day. The team’s services include finding food

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New NVC Adjunct English Faculty

Welcome new Northwest Vista College English faculty Samantha Raymond. Prior to coming to NVC, she was the assistant manager at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy in Alamo Ranch. She says she absolutely loved that job, because she loves reading comics and talking to people about comics. Nearly 15 years of her career experience has been

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NASA Engineer Credits Hector Trevino to Helping him Embrace Math

Congrats to NVC math faculty Hector Trevino! Recently, a former student Alex Zamora credited Hector in a YouTube video for putting him on a path to making math easy for him which led him to become a NASA engineer. When Hector is not busy teaching, he’s also athletically talented outside the classroom. He has won the

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NVC’s Elizabeth Murray Scores Big in Cornhole Tourney

Congratulations to Northwest Vista College’s Elizabeth Sirchia Murray from the Student Success team. She represented the Alamo City Cornhole as part of a 10-athlete team to compete at the Texas Club Cup on April 29 – May 1. The San Antonio crew had a great showing with many “clutch” performances and were able to finish 3rd overall.

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NVC Colleagues Graduate from ALAS

Five Northwest Vista College and two Alamo Colleges employees were recently recognized at the district-wide ALAS completion ceremony on May 6. The ALAS Class XV graduates are: Mallory Plummer, NVC Elladean Moreno, NVC Dr. Randall Garza, NVC Jonathon Gonzales, NVC Sgt. Jill Sprowls, DSO Eva Gaitan, DSO Stacey Blum, DSO Along with the graduates, NVC

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