Congratulations to Patty Sanchez, NVC Business assistant bursar, she is one of the winners of the Alamo Colleges’ weight loss challenge. Over the course of several months, Patty lost 23 pounds and to date has lost an additional four pounds. Patty said the district-wide challenge is just what she needed to get her motivated to lose
Just a few months ago, we learned that our accreditation body had deferred our reaffirmation of accreditation by six months to gather additional information regarding institutional autonomy. This was a concern raised by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Board of Trustees regarding Northwest Vista College, San Antonio College and
At the September NVC Bragging Breakfast, 14 employees won gift baskets, gift cards from restaurants, NVC sweatshirts and even purple NVC lawn chairs. The gifts included in the drawing were contributed by Red Robin, Follett and the NVC Bookstore, Broadway Bank, Chipotle, The Egg and I, Frost Bank, Los Barrios and Viola’s Ventanas, Santikos Entertainment,
The first Bragging Breakfast of the semester convened with a packed house of employees. Free breakfast tacos and coffee, thanks to NVC College Services, also helped to bring in the masses. Northwest Vista College President Dr. Ric Baser welcomed everyone with some good news – NVC enrollment has hit 18,004 with paid registration at 17,194.
Congratulations to the new NVC Staff Council officers, who are listed below. NVC Staff Council is an organization on campus with a mission to enhance professionalism of all staff members by increasing access to information, participation, communication, and recognition. Staff Council has been instrumental in being the voice for employees to college and district leadership,
Kens 5 Northwest Vista College Professor Dr. Richard Marbut was recently featured on KENS 5. The news report will be about the latest presidential election poll and Dr. Marbut will be asked to provide expertise as a professor of government and an expert in political polls. To see the story, click here. Texas Public Radio
The Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes instructors for their contributions to student learning and college initiatives. Below are this year’s full-time faculty who are the recipients. Adjunct faculty are announced in the spring. Sarah Ball, History I show up every day excited and ready to learn. She is passionate about the subject and it shows
The fall semester has started with a bang! Fall enrollment is looking strong and may surpass last fall’s numbers. And once again there’s construction on campus to improve parking, sidewalks and accessibility. I have been here two years now, and it’s the best two years of my 35-year career in higher education. I keep looking at our
This year’s NVC employee convocation was just one hour long! Northwest Vista College President Dr. Ric Baser even injected some Olympics success in it. He said right after USA swimmer Michael Phelps won the 200-meter butterfly event, there was a graphic (meme) that went viral of Phelps’ competitor looking at him rather than the finish line. Dr.
NVC Recruitment has recently welcomed Juli Flores. She earned a BA in Psychology and M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration from UTSA. Julie previously worked at UTSA for over 10 years in several capacities to include Admissions, Advising, and Recruitment. She also had the pleasure of teaching SDEV at San Antonio College for one year. Currently, Juli
Congratulations to Dr. Russell Frohardt, who has been chosen NVC’s new dean of Arts & Sciences. According to his biography: Dr. Russ Frohardt currently serves as Associate Dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where he has held various faculty
Over the last several months, Workforce Education & Training has changed the name to several of its programs to better reflect industry standards and ensure students can easily transfer credits to other four-year colleges. NVC’s Nanotechnology program is now called Advanced Materials Technology (AMT). Bharathi (Barti) Subramaniasiva Ph.D., AMT’s coordinator and faculty, said “We decided on
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