For too many years, sisters Katy and Olivia Shaw have been told in class to just sit back and listen. Their eye sight prevented them from seeing the materials like all the other students. Olivia can make out shapes, light and dark and Katy can see words in extra large font. It wasn’t until the
Kinsanity – A new fitness craze is taking over San Antonio – well just Northwest Vista College and the focus is to help students and their friends and families learn about nutrition to make body transformations. Over the last several years, Northwest Vista College instructor Leland Hammonds II has taken his Concepts of Physical Fitness to
Northwest Vista College faculty Deborah Keller Rihn and Mimi Duvall are a part of an annual exhibit at Centro Cultural Aztlan, titled “Las Mujeres de Aztlan y El Segundo de Febrero.” Centro annually celebrates this anniversary to ensure that the history of the Mexican-American people is not forgotten and this year, the exhibit will be focusing on
Northwest Vista College held a Norming Session Training in preparation for our Annual Assessment Day a few weeks ago. Almost 50 faculty members spent half a day building their understanding of the importance of a norming process and identifying best practices for norming sessions. Norming sessions are a valuable part of assessment in that it creates
Congrats to Northwest Vista College Digital Media Coordinator Viviane Marioneaux. Her IMED-Web Design II (2315) class is now nationally recognized and a certified course for meeting standards of Quality Matters standards. Quality Matters is a nationally-recognized program in which 1,300 colleges and universities throughout the world subscribe to the QM program and use the Higher Ed Rubric to
The first Bragging Breakfast of the new year was packed full of information and updates from key areas of the college. Northwest Vista College President Dr. Ric Baser spoke about some of the new changes that occurred while we were on winter break. For instance, there are new surface parking lots, new furniture in some
With almost 75 percent of Northwest Vista College students attending college part-time, giving students options has been a priority for this college. And one of those options has been online classes. Almost 15 percent of course sections at NVC are fully online. If we exclude math and INRW refreshers and orientations, there are 324 fully
Larry Trejo NVC IT Information System Specialist What his co-workers say anonymously: “He is dependable and can be relied on to get a job done. He takes the initiative and goes an extra mile to help his customers get their issues resolved. He never hesitates to take on any challenge or difficult task. He can be
Nearly 200 students convened at Northwest Vista College to take part in a CyberPatriot IX San Antonio Center of Excellence Practice Competition. The purpose of the event was to help teams master the security skills necessary to protect Windows and Linux systems in a Cisco network environment. About 16 different schools were represented that ranged from middle
Sixteen Northwest Vista College employees were chosen to be a part of the inaugural class of Emerging Leaders, a program by Alamo Colleges Human Resources. Over the next six months, the group will learn principles that deal with inspiring trust, clarifying purpose, aligning systems and unleashing talent. The group will also tackle some NVC processes
Heidi Hunt-Ruiz presented the Northwest Visa College Math Path game to the Alamo Colleges Board of Trustees on Dec 13. NVC’s Math Path advising model has been recognized as a state model by the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, a national leader in Math Pathways Projects. NVC implemented the Math
At the Dec. 9 Bragging Breakfast, several Northwest Vista College employees were recognized for their achievements and contributions. Elsa O’Campo, Education discipline coordinator, completed her Ph.D program in Leadership Studies from OLLU. Mary Ramirez, DPS officer, completed her MBA from Texas A&M University – SA, and she was selected the December Alamo Colleges Employee of
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