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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
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
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
This is an ongoing series to help inform staff and faculty about Alamo Institutes: The largest Institute at NVC by number of students and number of disciplines is the Science and Technology Institute. Students who are interested in areas like biology, computer science, engineering, and psychology will have many opportunities to explore the disciplines, as
It’s not uncommon for Northwest Vista College students to participate in service learning projects, but students from Jo Ann Gonzalez’s nutrition (BIOL 1322) class this semester took their project to a whole new level. Her class participated in a food collection fundraiser and collected 550. They were the only community college involved among universities that included
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