Northern Virginia Community College (Annandale Campus)

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Northern Virginia Community College (Annandale Campus)
Established: 1965
Type: Public, 2-year, community college
President: Dr. Robert G. Templin, Jr.
Location: Annandale, Virginia, USA
Campus: Suburban
Website: http://www.nvcc.edu

The Northern Virginia Community College (colloquially known as NOVA) Annandale Campus, in Annandale, Virginia, is the largest of the eight NOVA campuses.

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[edit] Campus description

The Annandale Campus is located on Little River Turnpike in Annandale, Virginia, a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington in Fairfax County. The campus is about a mile (1.6 km) outside the Capital Beltway at exit 52. The campus consists of eight main buildings: the Godwin (CG) Building, the Foodservice (CF) Building, the Classroom (CC) Building, the TV Tech (CT) Building, the McDiarmid (CM) Building, the Ernst Cultural Community Center (CE), the Shuler (CS) Building, and the CN (formerly Nursing) Building. Additionally, there are several other buildings on the campus, such as the campus police station, a greenhouse, and several maintenance buildings. All the roads within the campus are designated as Virginia State Route 376. There is a six-story parking garage next to the CN Building, and several large parking lots behind the campus. The back part of the campus is on a large, steep hill typical of the area; because of this, the parking lot entrance to the CM Building is on the first floor, but the entrance from the terrace between the different buildings is on the third floor.

[edit] Diversity

The student body at this campus is extremely diverse, reflecting Northern Virginia in general, and a very large percentage of students are foreign-born. Most foreign-born students are Korean, Eastern European, North African, or Sub-Saharan African. It is common to walk down a hall at NOVA and not hear any English spoken, but to hear people speaking Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, French, and Swahili, among many other languages. Due to this, the school's English as a second language (ESL) program is enormous. Many students only attend NOVA to take ESL classes, which do not count for credit. It is very common to see North African women wearing hijabs (headscarves) or less commonly, burqas. However, there are very few Hispanic students, despite the fact that Northern Virginia has a huge Hispanic population.

[edit] Other information

Bus service is provided to the campus by Metrobus. This campus serves most of central Fairfax County, including Annandale, Centreville, Chantilly, Fairfax City, Fairfax Station, Merrifield, Dunn Loring, Tysons Corner, McLean, Falls Church, Jefferson, Vienna, Oakton, Wolf Trap, North Springfield, West Springfield, and Burke. This area has more than 450,000 people.

[edit] Buildings

[edit] Godwin (CG) Building

This four-story building is the central building on campus. The first floor has the campus bookstore, as well as some ESL classrooms. The second floor has counselor offices, dean's offices, an an international student center. The third floor is the campus library. The fourth floor has the testing center, some computer labs, and tutoring centers. There is a tunnel connecting this building to the CE Building.

[edit] Foodservice (CF) Building

This two-story building has the campus cafeteria, as well as an arcade room that also has many vending machines and a microwave oven on the first floor, and student organization rooms and the faculty lounge on the second floor.

[edit] Classroom (CC) Building

This two-story building contains faculty offices, the office of the Dean of the Business and Public Services Division, and classrooms for business, accounting, real estate, criminal justice and fire science classes.

[edit] TV Tech (CT) Building

This five-story is the tallest building on campus (excluding the parking garage) and contains mostly classrooms for computer-related classes (many are computer labs), plus foreign language and math classrooms. The top floor is a branch campus and recruiting center for Norfolk's Old Dominion University.

[edit] McDiarmid (CM) Building

This three-story building has mostly math and liberal arts classrooms, as well as several large kitchens for the school's culinary arts and hospitality programs.

[edit] Ernst Cultural Community Center (CE)

This three-story building has a large theater in it that hosts productions by the school's theater department. The theater can also be rented out by other performers. This building also has several gyms, yoga classrooms, and several conference rooms. There is a tunnel connecting this building to the CG Building.

[edit] Shuler (CS) Building

This two-story building contains science classrooms and labs.

[edit] CN Building

This two-story building, formerly called the Nursing building, contains liberal arts and ESL classrooms, as well as an auditorium. The nursing classes were moved to the Medical Education Campus in Springfield.

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