https://history.nvcc.edu/files/original/9b262c0dd0274591dd9b391e3bd05145.pdf c15932c3f5a5e7c8d860c5ed67370c26 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h2>College History</h2> Description An account of the resource <div class="s-lg-box-wrapper-28173816"> <div class="s-lib-box-container"> <div class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">About this Collection</h2> <div> <div class="s-lib-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div class="clearfix">This collection includes commencement programs, annual reports, yearbooks, an oral history and other documents from the history of NOVA. Commencement programs include a list of graduates from each year as well as names of speakers. Two early annual reports from NOVA and the Virginia Community College System are sources of information about the community college system in its early days. NOVA published yearbooks with photos of students, faculty, staff and facilities from 1967 to 1969. In 1987, NOVA published Northern Virginia Community College: An Oral History 1965-1985. It included interviews with college administrators, Virginia elected officials, faculty and students. This project was initiated in 2009 by David Anderson, a librarian at the Alexandria Campus Library. Our collections include over 3,000 pages of content and over 600 items.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2>NOVA History</h2> Northern Virginia Community College was established in 1964 under the name Northern Virginia Technical College. In the fall of 1965, the College opened with 761 students in a single building in Bailey’s Crossroads under President Robert W. McKee. To accommodate an ever-growing student body, the college purchased 78 acres in Annandale in 1966 to create the first of six permanent campus sites. That same year, the College was renamed Northern Virginia Community College when the Statewide General Assembly changed the name of the technical college system to the Virginia Community College System (VCCS).<br /><br />In 1967, NOVA opened the new building on the Annandale campus and continued to expand with the purchase of 100 acres for new campus sites in Sterling, Manassas and Woodbridge, Virginia. This air of growth and change continued with the introduction of Dr. Richard J. Ernst as president in the fall of 1968 and the purchase of an additional campus site in Alexandria in 1969. <br /><br />Expanding the goal to serve students of all types, NOVA opened the Extended Learning Institute in 1975 to accommodate individuals who wanted an education but could not accommodate a traditional program into their schedule. On the heels of the start of Dr. Belle S. Wheelan as president in 1998, Northern Virginia Community College purchased a site that would become the Medical Campus in 2000 and opened educational centers in Arlington and Reston, Virginia. In 2010, a new center was added to NOVA, Innovation Park.<br /><br />Today, under the guidance of Dr. Anne Kress., NOVA offers more than 160 associate degree and certificate programs to 75,000 students from 150 countries. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <div class="s-lg-box-wrapper-29692431"> <div class="s-lib-box-container"> <div class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">Student Publications</h2> <div> <div class="s-lib-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div class="clearfix"> <p>Looking for first-hand reporting of NOVA history as it happened? Check out our collection of student publications.</p> <p><strong>1967-1970</strong>: <em>The Burgess Record<br /><br /></em><strong>2006-2008</strong>: <em>NVCC Student Voice</em><em><br /></em><br /><strong>2009-2010</strong>: NOVA Fortnightly<em><br /></em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="s-lg-box-wrapper-29692549"> <div class="s-lib-box-container"> <div class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">Yearbooks &amp; Event Programs</h2> <div> <div class="s-lib-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div class="clearfix"> <p>Did you graduate from NOVA? We have digitized several yearbooks and commencement programs from 1967-2015.<br /><br /><em></em><strong>1969</strong>: <em>The Commonwealth Yearbook</em></p> <p><strong>1968</strong>: <em>The Commonwealth Yearbook</em></p> <p><strong>1967</strong>: <em>NOVA Comet Yearbook</em></p> <p><strong>1980:</strong><em> Annuendo</em></p> <p><strong>1967— 2015</strong>: <em>Commencement Programs</em></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="s-lg-box-wrapper-29692836"> <div class="s-lib-box-container"> <div class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">Other Items of Interest</h2> <div> <div class="s-lib-box-content pad-left-none pad-right-none"> <div class="clearfix"> <p>We've also digitized other primary materials of interest to the NOVA community:</p> <ul> <li>Photographs: campus plans, notable people at NOVA, campus and college events</li> <li>NOVA and VCCS annual reports</li> <li>Campus council minutes</li> <li>College catalogs (select semesters, 1966-1969)</li> <li>Oral histories</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Commencement Program, Northern Virginia Community College, 1969 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969 Subject The topic of the resource Commencement Programs Event Programs Description An account of the resource A commencement program for Northern Virginia Community College. Includes program, speakers and a list of graduates. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Northern Virginia Community College Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Northern Virginia Community College Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context commencement1969 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus Library Archives Language A language of the resource English