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Northern Virginia Community College

Apr 2, 2020

NOVA Educational Foundation receives $1M donation

The Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation (NOVA Foundation) announced Thursday it has received a $1 million donation from Debra Coffman Howe of Palm Beach, Florida. The funding will go to Howe’s existing endowment fund for NOVA nursing student scholarships and also to the NOVA COVID-19 Emergency Student Aid Fund.  Howe was a NOVA nursing […]

Mar 23, 2020

Northern Virginia Community College launches COVID-19 emergency fund for students

Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Educational Foundation on Monday launched an emergency student aid fund to help students struggling with economic fallout from COVID-19, with a goal  to issue $500 grants to at least 1,500 students. More than half of NOVA’s 85,000 students work full- or part-time jobs, according to the community college, and the […]

(L to R) Virginia Chief Workforce Development Advisor Megan Healy; Fairfax County Economic Development Authority CEO Victor Hoskins; Northern Virginia Community College President Anne Kress with Alarm.com apprentices, Alarm.com CEO Stephen Trundle and Vice President of Human Resources Victoria Schillinger. Photo courtesy Northern Virginia Community College
Feb 21, 2020

Alarm.com launches apprenticeship program

In cooperation with Northern Virginia Community College, Tysons-based Alarm.com launched an apprenticeship program Friday aimed at producing workers with in-demand tech skills. Supported by the state’s GO Virginia economic development initiative, 10 initial apprentices, including three from the military community, will participate in Alarm.com’s paid yearlong apprenticeship program. They will [...]

Anne M. Kress
Jan 29, 2020

Realizing Dreams and Filling Jobs

This session, General Assembly members are considering a proposal that would help close the commonwealth’s skills gap by providing workforce scholarships to individuals without access to the community college education required to gain these skills. This proposal is a win-win-win: assisting students, growing businesses and developing our communities. We are describing Governor Ralph Northam’s [...]

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