Tag: NOVA
Wakefield Chapel residents want NOVA to address student parking problems
Residents complain about NOVA students on Wakefield Chapel Road. People who live close to the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Annandale campus have been complaining about students parking on Wakefield Chapel Road and side streets for years. The familiar litany of grievances was aired again Feb. 25 at the most recent quarterly meeting on NOVA/neighborhood … Continued
Petition drive seeks solution to student parking problems near NOVA
Wakefield Chapel Road. Efforts have been under way for years to resolve parking problems in the Wakefield Chapel area of Annandale caused by spillover parking by Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) students. Now a resident of that area is circulating a new petition calling for NOVA to change its policies to discourage students from parking … Continued
NOVA career training programs essential to region’s economic growth
NOVA President Robert Templin (left) speaks to the Committee of 100. Next to him is the committee’s president, David Huddleston. Whether the Northern Virginia economy will to continue to grow depends on the ability of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) to train enough “middle-tier, highly skilled, high tech-savvy employees” to meet companies’ workforce needs. That’s … Continued
At NOVA’s Annandale campus: A lesson in daring design
By Elizabeth Kirchner The new student services building on the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) is more than good architecture. It blends beauty and utility in an energy-smart, dual-flush, stormwater-absorbing reflection of the progressive ideals of the school’s faculty and staff. In 2006, the building was already in its design phase when … Continued
NVCC plans to install – and pay for – a traffic signal on Wakefield Chapel Rd.
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) plans to install a traffic light at the intersection of Wakefield Chapel Road and Chapel Road is not sitting well with some local residents. NVCC believes the signal would reduce traffic tie-ups in the neighborhood and allow people to get out of the NVCC parking lot faster, which would encourage … Continued
Annandale resident gives half his money to charity
Semmler Prof. Richard Semmler teaches mathematics at the Annandale campus of Northern Virginia Community College and lives in a modest apartment in Annandale. Yet he’s given about $1.2 million to charity. Semmler hasn’t won the lottery and he doesn’t have a hidden source of wealth. He has been able to donate half his annual income to … Continued