Category — Special Announcements

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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The SGA wants to support our TNCC families in need during the holiday season. We will decorate holiday trees with our children’s printed names on stars at the Hampton and Historic Triangle campuses.

The trees will be displayed in Gators Café, Griffin Hall – Hampton and Student Commons – Historic Triangle Campus. Offer is limited to the first 100 TNCC children signed up to participate (up to 16 years old), so please respond quickly.

Gifts will be distributed during:

• SGA Holiday Party for Hampton Students on December 11, 2009 from 5:00 – 7:00 pm in Gators Café, Griffin Hall – Hampton Campus
• SGA Holiday Party for Historic Triangle Students on December 17, 2009 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm in Room 229 – Historic Triangle Campus

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Patricia Taylor, TNCC’s Dean of Mathematics Engineering and Technologies, has announced an exciting offer from the University of Virginia (UVa) that TNCC Engineering students can explore. UVa is giving students an opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree in engineering without traveling to Charlottesville.

Taylor asks all TNCC faculty and staff to share this great news.

UVa is now offering one of its undergraduate degree programs fully at a distance. Graduates of an Associate of Science in Engineering degree program (or equivalent) are potentially eligible for the program. For more information, visit the following web site: http://www.seas.virginia.edu/producedinva.

Those interested may contact Dr. James Groves at jgroves@virginia.edu or (434) 924-6261. Groves is an associate professor, Assistant Dean for Research and Outreach and Director of the Engineers PRODUCED in Virginia program at UVa.

Thomas Nelson Community College invites the public to a presentation about H1N1 on Wednesday, October 28 from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in the Dr. Mary T. Christian Auditorium, Templin Hall, Hampton campus.

TNCC’s own health and safety experts, along with representatives from the Virginia Department of Health and Sentara, will discuss facts as well as prevention and treatment to raise public awareness about H1N1.

Update: A recorded version of the presentation will be made available of this presentation in the near future.  Please watch News @ TNCC for more information.

Thomas Nelson will react to a classroom concern of contagious disease when information is provided by the infected student, another student, a member of the student’s family, a physician or a public health organization. All actions taken will be handled in a manner which maintains the confidentiality and privacy of the individual.

Students should be advised on course syllabi that they should remain home if they have symptoms like fever and/or vomiting that may endanger the health of fellow students, faculty, and staff. Course syllabi should also advise students to contact their instructors by phone if they suspect they have contracted a contagious disease that would cause the student to miss more than a day of class.

Instructors should report immediately to the respective Dean any reports of serious contagious disease that may cause risk to employee or student health like meningitis, H1N1, measles, mumps, and mononucleosis. The Dean will immediately contact the student to assess if the student has been evaluated by a heath agency and to give guidance on notifying the College of his or her health status in order to continue attending class and/or participating in any TNCC activity.

The Dean will notify the Vice President for Academic Affairs when the student is medically cleared to return to class and give the Vice President for Student Affairs a copy of the student’s medical statement that allows the student to return to class and/or participate in any TNCC activity.

Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza among pigs. Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of swine flu viruses have been documented.

The symptoms of swine flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with swine flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions.

Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people. If you get sick with a fever and flu-like symptoms, the CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

The TNCC Offices of Student Affairs and Academic Affairs strongly urge all members of the campus community to follow the recommendations of the CDC.

Preventing the Flu: Good Health Habits Can Help Stop Germs

• Avoid close contact. Avoid close contact with people who are sick. When you are sick, keep your distance from others to protect them from getting sick too.

• Stay home when you are sick. – If possible, stay home from work, school, and errands when you are sick. You will help prevent others from catching your illness.

• Cover your mouth and nose. – Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick.

• Clean your hands. – Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs.

• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs are often spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth.

• Practice other good health habits. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food.

For more information, visit  http://cdc.goc.h1n1flu/

Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) will be closed to the public on Monday, August 17 for All College Day. All TNCC employees will be participating in professional development activities at the College’s new Historic Triangle campus in Williamsburg.

The day officially marks the beginning of a new academic year at TNCC. In preparation for the fall semester, faculty and staff will be attending various forums, presentations, and professional development activities. Fall classes begin Saturday, August 22.

The College is currently registering students for the fall semester. Students can register online at www.tncc.edu. Regular service hours will resume at TNCC locations in Hampton, Williamsburg and Newport News on Tuesday, August 18.

For additional information, please contact the Office of Public Relations, Marketing and Special Events at 825-3525.

Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) named Dean Norman Hahn as the interim Vice President for Academic Affairs. Effective July 13, 2009, Hahn will serve in the role formerly held by Dr. Richard Fleming, who served in the position for three years before assuming the role of Vice President/Dean of the Prince Frederick Campus of the College of Southern Maryland.

Hahn, a TNCC alumnus, has served the College for 14 years, advancing from a faculty role to the Dean of the Division of Business, Public Services and Social Sciences.

Hahn holds an Associate of Science degree from Thomas Nelson Community College and a Bachelor of Science in Information Science from Christopher Newport University. He completed a Master of Education at Regent University.