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Student Career Coaching and Mentorship Program Seeks Alumni Faculty and Staff

The Northwest Vista College Business Council is seeking employee alumni mentors and coaches to help expand the Business Leader Career Coaching program. Participants will be matched with a Student Development instructor and his or her class for one semester. Each coach or mentor will coordinate meetings or presentations with the class of first-year college students

July 27, 2018 No Comments

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Faculty/Staff Innovation Grants Available

Northwest Vista College faculty and staff members are invited to submit proposals for funding through the Faculty/Staff Innovation Grants Program of the Alamo Colleges Foundation. The Foundation is providing a third year of $10,000 in funding to NVC. The Faculty/Staff Innovation Grant Program encourages applicants to provide new and innovative approaches to instruction and/or student

July 25, 2018 No Comments

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New Website for NVC

This summer, the Alamo Colleges District and all five colleges, are launching a new website for the benefit of our various stakeholders. Students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to preview the site before it goes live in mid-July. The primary focus of the new site is on first-time visitors, most often a prospective student. The

June 27, 2018 1 Comment

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Emerging Leaders Graduate

Congratulations to the 2018 Northwest Vista College Emerging Leaders group who graduated from the 5 1/2 month program on Tuesday, June 26. The Alamo Colleges District Emerging Leaders Program is a 5 1/2 month leadership development program founded on Franklin Covey’s process-focused content: Great Leader, Great Teams, Great Results. The purpose of this program is

June 27, 2018 No Comments

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Wildcat Days 2018 on Aug. 27 and 28

On Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 27 and 28, Northwest Vista College will welcome students for the fall semester during Wildcat Days 2018. Volunteers located in stations across the campus will help students find their classes, give them a smile and provide maps, planners, pens and much more. This year, Wildcat Days will have six stations

June 27, 2018 No Comments

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Wearable Technology Pilot Project Proves Successful

During the 2018 spring semester, the Information and Communication Technology Team at Northwest Vista College tested the business and academic capabilities of wearable technology including Apple and Android watches. The pilot objectives set for this project were completed successfully. “This initiative was 100 percent supported and funded by our NVC Cabinet,” said director of Information

May 15, 2018 No Comments

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NVC Institutes Creative and Communication Arts

This is an ongoing series to help inform staff and faculty about Alamo Institutes: What does a caring community look like? For the Creative and Communication Arts Institute Team, a CAREing community is one where students are encouraged and given information to achieve their educational, professional, and personal goals: Consistent – We all speak the same

May 11, 2018 No Comments

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NVC Students Overcome Obstacles

This year’s graduation brings many success stories of Northwest Vista College students overcoming hardships to achieve their goals. Two stories highlighted – thanks to NVC advisors Kristal Eaker and Valerie Somerville – show what our students can achieve through their own motivation and a little push from NVC faculty and staff. Former Marine Albert “Bert”

May 11, 2018 2 Comments

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May Bragging Breakfast Showcases Student Success Stories

Four students, who will be walking across the graduation stage on May 14, started the May Bragging Breakfast by sharing their experiences of attending college and what Northwest Vista College means to them. Zachary Maxwell said while college was really scary for him at first, NVC made him feel comfortable; and he had the opportunity

May 11, 2018 No Comments

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NVC Institutes: Business and Entrepreneurship

This is an ongoing series to help inform staff and faculty about Alamo Institutes: There is no better way to learn than through experience and practical application, and students in the Business and Entrepreneurship Institute have been doing just that. Students in accounting, business computer information systems, and economics classes are learning about business from

May 4, 2018 No Comments

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NVC Community Members & Employees Participate in Scholarship Application Judging

Representatives of the Northwest Vista College Business Council and Friends of the Arts at NVC (FANs) as well as NVC faculty and staff participated in the consolidated scholarship application judging event held April 13 at the Moody Learning Center at San Antonio College. The number of student applications received by the April 1st Alamo Colleges

May 4, 2018 No Comments

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NVC Advanced Materials Tech (Nanotechnology) Program Producing Future Scientists

Northwest Vista College’s Advanced Materials Technology program, formerly known as Nanotechnology, is producing future scientists. David Cadena, who received a Nanotechnology certificate from NVC a few years ago, was just awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship that will pay for his PhD program in NanoEngineering at the University of California at San Diego. Getting to

April 20, 2018 No Comments