Campus
Communicator
NOVEMBER • 2014
Scholarship Help for Technology Students
Students entering technical programs,
including those that lead to jobs in the
oil and gas industry, can take advantage of more than $150,000 in scholarships at WVNCC.
“We want students to know they can
apply for a scholarship to enter the
Petroleum Technology program at
Northern, for example, and get their
tuition and fees covered,” President
Olshinsky said. “Northern has benefitted from the generosity of several
businesses that have donated funds
for scholarships, and those funds in
many cases have been matched by the
state of West Virginia.”
Scholarship funds are available for the
following majors: Petroleum Technology, Mechatronics, Allied Health,
Culinary Arts, Computer Information
Technology and Welding TechnologyBoard of Governors option. To learn
more about these scholarships, contact Kelly Dlesk, financial aid counselor, at 304-214-8842, or go online to
www.wvncc.edu and click on Offices/
Services to access financial aid and
scholarship details.
Scholarship funds have been assembled because of the following donations to the WVNCC Foundation:
· Noble Energy, for students entering petroleum related fields, total
of $72,000 with state match.
· Chevron Fund through the Community Foundation for the Upper
Ohio Valley, for Marshall County
high school seniors entering
technical fields, $18,240 with state
match.
· EQT Foundation, $24,000 for purchase of virtual welders to take to
middle and high schools in Wetzel
County to demonstrate the concept of welding.
· Ken Dennis Fund through the
Community Foundation for the
Upper Ohio Valley, $19,438 with
state match to support students
from Belmont County in Ohio and
Ohio County in West Virginia to
participate in technical programs.
· An anonymous $10,000 donation,
matched by the state, to benefit
high school seniors taking technology classes, including Allied
Health.
Students Warm the Hearts of Others
Students and faculty at West Virginia Northern have embarked on projects that will benefit those in need of assistance during the cold winter
months in the Wheeling area.
Wheeling campus Nursing students and the Medical Assisting students
each decorated a Christmas tree with gloves for winter (instead of ornaments) to be given to the Domestic Violence shelter and the Children’s
Home of Wheeling. The trees are located on the third floors of the Education Center and B&O Building.
The SCARSI Club (Students Caring About Regional Social Issues) is
sponsoring a blanket donation drive through Dec. 5. All blankets that are donated must be new. The new blankets then
will be distributed to two local agencies: The Greater Wheeling Coalition for the Homeless and the Youth Services System Winter Freeze Shelter.
Drop-off locations are in the Student Activities Department in the Student Union on the Wheeling campus or Joyce
Britt’s office, Room 317, B&O Building. Britt, faculty club advisor, said, “Please help us to help others during this winter
season.”
Wheeling Ca mpus
University. She holds a bachelor of
arts degree from Wheeling College
and an associate in applied science
from WVNCC.
Joyce Britt
Faculty Member Named
Outstanding Contributor
A Northern faculty member has been
honored as the institution’s outstanding contributor to community college
education for 2014-15.
Joyce Britt, an instructor in psychology and human services, received
the award last month at the annual
conference of the West Virginia Community College Association and the
West Virginia Association of Developmental Education. The conference
was hosted by WVU-Parkersburg
and held at the Blennerhassett Hotel
downtown.
From excellence in the classroom to
enthusiastic engagement with social
issues, the outstanding contributor for
this year at Northern strives to make
her academic credentials come alive
for students and staff.
Joyce has been an adjunct faculty
member at Northern since 2005, and
started teaching full-time in January
2012. She has 26 years of professional
experience in the social service field
and has a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from West Virginia
During the past year, Joyce created,
implemented and continues to advise
a new student club, Students Caring
About Regional Social Issues. She has
served on various community committees focused on social issues and
has been a presenter at local and state
conferences. This year, she presented
a College-wide program for administrators, faculty, staff and students
at WVNCC titled, “Is It Flirting or
Sexual Harassment?” Recently, she
gave a program on how to deal with
stress.
In addition, Joyce was the first recipient of an award to be given annually
to recognize outstanding contributions by full-time faculty at Northern.
Emeritus faculty member Thomas R.
Danford made an initial contribution
to create the “Danford Faculty Award
Fund” through the WVNCC Foundation. He suggested the $100 award
be presented to a deserving faculty
member at the College’s annual fall
recognition luncheon.
Joyce is a member of Phi Theta Kappa
and Who’s Who Among American Junior College Students and is a licensed
social worker in both West Virginia
and Ohio.
She and her husband, Don, have been
married for 35 years. They have two
adult children who are married, and
one grandchild.
Presidental Search
The top three finalists being considered for the presidency at West Virginia Northern all were on WVNCC
campuses earlier this month.
Peggy Carmichael, chief human
resources officer for the College who
coordinated the visits, said the three
finalists are Dr. John Crooks, associate
provost of Lorain County Community
College in Elyria, Ohio; Dr. Catherine Gatewood-Keim, vice president
of academic affairs of Bay College,
Escanaba, Mich.; and Dr. Vicki Riley,
vice president of academic affairs of
West Virginia Northern Community
College, Wheeling.
Carmichael said the presidential
search committee has been meeting
since September but the process began earlier in the year when the College’s current president, Dr. Martin J.
Olshinsky, announced he would retire
effective Jan. 5, 2015.
The three candidates were on Northern’s Wheeling, Weirton and New
Martinsville campuses and met with
the search committee members,
Board of Governors, administrators,
state Community and Technical College Council members, faculty, staff,
alumni, students and community
members.
The candidates’ resumes have been
posted on the WVNCC Presidential
Search webpage http://www.wvncc.
edu/offices-and-services/presidentialsearch/4592 along with additional
information about the search.
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