News, information and events from Thomas Nelson Community College

HAMPTON, Va. — The Thomas Nelson Community College Board will meet on Wednesday, December 2 at 5:45 p.m. in the College Board Room, Moore Hall on the Hampton campus. The Financial and Municipal Liaison Committee (FAML) will meet at 4:45 p.m. in Room 3, Harrison Hall. The Curriculum, Instruction and Student Services Committee (CISS) will meet at 5:15 p.m. in Room 9, Harrison Hall.

The general board meeting and committee meetings are open to the public in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Any member of the general public desiring to address the meeting must notify the Board Secretary (the President of the College) prior to the start of the meeting.

Discussions about such scientific terms as protons, neutrons and electrons come naturally for David Galinski. The Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) Electrical Engineering Technology student has a 3.9 grade point average in his area of study and was recently invited to join The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) team as a paid intern.

The Newport News facility is a hub for scientists who engage in basic and applied research. The primary area of research involves a study of the atom’s nucleus at the quark level. A quark is a fast-moving point of energy. Protons and neutrons are composed of two types: up quarks and down quarks. The technology developed at the lab is used to conduct Physics experiments. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Jefferson Lab garners support from the City of Newport News and the Commonwealth of Virginia and has strong relationships with industry and university partners.

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Please be aware of these changes in the Make-up Testing Center schedule during Thanksgiving week:

• Monday, Nov. 23rd, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 – 5 p.m.
• Tuesday, Nov. 24th, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 2 – 5 p.m.
• CLOSED Wed. Nov. 25 – Sunday, Nov. 29th.

As a reminder, students are required to show photo identification, and tests will not be distributed later than one hour before closing time. If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Michele Ross, Testing Specialist, at 825-3540 or rossm@tncc.edu.

Former TNCC dual enrollment student Grace Duval is in the running to be a contestant in Mark Burnett’s new trivia show that features gifted children who are experts in a specific subject. Mark Burnett Productions, the company responsible for television shows such as “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” is casting the new program.

As part of the audition process, Grace has completed several telephone interviews that included trivia questions covering English literature and Humanities. The upcoming audition will include a video interview. Filming for the show will start in December and the program is slated to premier early next year.

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Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) instructor Veronica McMillian received the FBI’s 2009 Director’s Community Leadership Award. She was honored last month at the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office and will be formally recognized in March among 50 national recipients at the FBI Office in Washington, D.C. The FBI created the award in 1990 to honor individuals and organizations for their efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs, and violence in America.

Driven by a passion for community service that extends far beyond TNCC, McMillian has 20 years of experience in education, training, program development and counseling, among other specialties. She strives to arm students – adults and teens – with the tools needed to build safer communities. As an adjunct instructor at TNCC, she teaches Student Development courses and conducts seminars pertaining to anger management, depression and more. She uses her counseling experience to reach out to the students. “The college life is not an easy life. Just everyday life is enough to get to you,” McMillian said.

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Please read about the sensational TNCC-Iron Street production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” The musical 10/14 at 8:00 in the Mary T. Christian Auditorium with a Sunday matinee tomorrow at 3:00; it will also run next weekend, Friday-Sunday. It’s an historic first musical for the College and one I guarantee you won’t want to miss.

From the AltDaily review:

If there is one genre of music to listen to for eternity, it’s 60s soul: Archie Bell and the Drells, O.V. Wright, Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Band, Dyke & the Blazers, the roll call could go on all day.

Stepping into the Mary T. Christian auditorium at Thomas Nelson the other night, the seemingly most innocent and unlikely of places, I beheld heaven as musical director Michael Sunblad led the Doo-Wop Girls through the first song from Little Shop of Horrors, which premieres Saturday the 14th.

Read full review @ AltDaily

Update 11/13 6pm: Thomas Nelson will resume normal operations on Saturday, November 14, classes at both campuses will be held as normal.  Additionally the performances of “Little Shop of Horrors” scheduled for this weekend will continue as planned.

Update 11/12 7pm: TNCC will remain closed on Friday, 11/13 due to a continuation of severe weather conditions.  All classes and activities at the College are cancelled. Friday night’s performance of “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Dr. Mary T. Christian Auditorium is also canceled.

Update 11/12 6am: TNCC is closed today, 11/12, due to severe weather conditions. All day and evening classes, as well as all activities, for both the Hampton and Historic Triangle campuses are canceled.

Please continue to check TNCC.edu for updates to this situation.  The College will be utilizing Twitter for additional updates.

• TNCC on Twitter (@TNCCfeed)

The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood warning for Newport News/Hampton, Virginia from 1:00 p.m. (EST) Wednesday, November 11 until 6:00 p.m. Friday, November 13.

College officials are continuously monitoring weather conditions and will provide weather updates as information becomes available.

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Virginia’s Community Colleges are announcing the creation of a reengineering task force to optimize the way community colleges operate. The announcement comes as the commonwealth’s community colleges are managing both unprecedented enrollment growth and state funding reductions.

“When it comes to costs for both the students and the taxpayers, our community colleges already provide the most efficient service of all Virginia’s higher education sector,” said Glenn DuBois, chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges. “However, there is a need for our community colleges to do more, to serve more businesses, to serve more students and to produce more graduates for Virginia’s economy. Ensuring that our operations are lean, modern, technology savvy and properly focused is essential to meeting that need.”

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