“Boundless horizons” await the newly minted graduates of Northen Virginia Community College, the institution’s president told them during May 15 ceremonies at EagleBank Arena on the campus of George Mason University.
“Your commitment to your goals to getting here today...
After two years in which commencement ceremonies for local institutions of higher learning were disrupted, things are beginning to return to a semblance of normal for 2022.
Three major local colleges – George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College and...
Eleven Northern Virginia Community College students have been named semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
The foundation annually supports high-achieving community college students with a demonstrated financial need who are seeking to complete their bachelor’s degrees...
Northern Virginia Community College has received a $240,000 innovation grant in the initial phase of Strada Education Network’s $10 million Beyond Completion Challenge, one of 15 institutions of higher education to receive the funding.
The challenge is aimed at helping...
If there is any residual taint still attached to attending community college, Glenda Sorto wants to put it for rest, once and for all.
“Never let the community-college stigma get to you. The students here are getting quality educations –...
I admit to greatly enjoying covering Northern Virginia Community College commencement ceremonies, because the challenges facing some of the graduates, and the perseverance they showed in overcoming them, are always worth bringing to a wider audience.
It's been a year...
To accommodate an ever-increasing enrollment, spread the celebrations throughout the year and resume in-person ceremonies put on hold by the pandemic, Northern Virginia Community College will hold its first-ever winter commencement on Dec. 14.
A trio of ceremonies will be...
Three Northern Virginia Community College students have been selected to receive the first-of-its-kind Lockheed Martin Vocational Training Scholarship.
Computer and information-sciences students Omar Saaid and Raja Khurram Zilfiqar and engineering student Wilmot Westreicher were awarded scholarships of $6,600 toward their...
A collaborative effort between Northern Virginia Community College, AT&T and the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry aims to provide information-technology training and on-the-job experience to students at the college while creating a larger pool of talent to meet...
One of the best stories each graduation season revolves around the students who living in AHC Inc.’s affordable apartment communities, who are paired with mentors during their last two years of high school and often find themselves accepted at...
