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1 INTERCOM April 1, 2011 Intercom Newsletter: Intercom is a publication of Marketing and Communications. It is produced electronically every Friday for the faculty and staff of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). Submissions: Please submit your items via to Intercom@nvcc.edu by 5:00 p.m. on Friday prior to publication. Photos should be submitted as digital files and attachments should be in MS Word or MS Publisher format. All submissions are subject to editing for length and clarity. The articles and information in this publication are written and submitted by NOVA faculty and staff (contributors) and are published with the understanding that such information is correct and verified by the contributor prior to submission. Editor: Alison Nicole Nooks Phone: For Intercom Archives and Submission Guidelines: Posting Schedule: Intercom is posted on the Web by Friday afternoon each week unless there is a holiday. Inclement weather or technical emergencies may prevent Intercom from being posted on time. During the summer and inbetween semesters, Intercom is published every other Friday. Submit your news today! Faculty Symposium Organized by NOVA Achieving the Dream The college-wide Achieving the Dream (ATD) committee is organizing a faculty symposium on early student engagement. All faculty are invited to attend the symposium on April 8 from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the CE Forum at the Ernst Cultural Center, Annandale Campus. Lunch will be provided. Space is limited so please register early on the Technology Applications Center (TAC) Training website: Early student engagement is the focus of this faculty-driven symposium. Colleagues from every NOVA campus will briefly present strategies and techniques they have either used or would like to try. There will be no slideshows or formal presentations. Presenters will simply share their techniques at the table and participants will leave with ideas and strategies to use in their classes. After the event, ATD will share all the ideas on a wiki. Please respond to the Call for Proposals by April 4. To learn more: click Current Events and then Strategies for Early Student Engagement. All faculty members are encouraged to act as shoulder-tappers and invite their creative colleagues to submit a proposal. Do you have an activity or teaching technique you use to engage your students in the first three weeks of class? Would you like to learn more about what your colleagues are doing to keep their students excited about learning from the beginning? Please attend to both learn and share your great ideas. For more information, contact Laura Franklin at lfranklin@nvcc.edu. Training Available for New Human Resources Management System Inside: Page 2: Pages 2-7: Table of Contents NOVA Sightings Pages 8 12: Page 13: Up & Coming Hot Topics

2 NOVASIGHTINGS Table of Contents Page 1 Faculty Symposium Organized by NOVA Achieving the Dream Page 2 NOVA Awarded Grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management Pages 3-4 Woodbridge Campus Breaks Ground for Academic Building Phase III Page 5 Delegate Sickles Visits the Medical Education Campus Page 6 Annandale Campus Book Club Meet and Discuss Myla Goldberg s Book Page 7 NOVA Chef and Culinary Students Visit Bond 45 Restaurant Video on Demand: Dr. W. Lance Haworth Page 8 A Cultural History of My Neighborhood on Exhibit - Photo Collages by Gail S. Rebhan Page 9 Calling all Poets: All that is Honors! Panel Discussion on Redistricting, Business Development and Governmental Spending Faculty Honors Workshop Page 10 International Studies Committee Events Page 11 Faces I Remember on Exhibit at Manassas Ken Paul Rosenthal s Documentary Crooked Beauty Page 12 Alumni Federation to Host Faculty of the Year Reception Inaugural Legacy Lecture Page 13 Leave Sharing Request Training Available for New Human Resources Management System (Live Date April 11) NOVA Awarded Grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management NOVA is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management through the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) in the amount of $30,000. The funds will be used to enhance the emergency preparedness of NOVA faculty and staff by aiding in the establishment of volunteer based Campus Virginia Department of Emergency Management website. Community Emergency Response Teams (C-CERT) at all of the campuses. C-CERT is a U. S. Department of Homeland Security program designed specifically for higher education institutions. The goal is to provide trained groups of individuals who can assist the College community during and after disaster situations. The C-CERT program provides valuable knowledge and skills that can help protect faculty, staff, students, and the communities NOVA serves. William Flagler, Jr., director of NOVA Emergency Management and Planning, will also begin working with the campuses to educate and obtain the appropriate feedback that will be necessary for successful program implementation. To learn more about NOVA s emergency preparedness, go online to 2

3 NOVASIGHTINGS Woodbridge Campus Breaks Ground for Academic Building Phase III Pictured from left to right: NOVA Board Chairman James White, Delegate Luke Torian, Delegate Scott Lingamfelter, President Robert G. Templin, Jr., Senator Charles Colgan, Provost Sam Hill, Chancellor Glenn DuBois, Senator Toddy Puller, Chairman of the Board of County Supervisors Corey Stewart, Dumfries District Supervisor Maureen Caddigan, Kelly Easterly representing the Neabsco District, and Delegate Richard Anderson helped break ground for the new Woodbridge academic building. Photo by Kevin Mattingly Provost Sam Hill hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for Academic Building Phase III at the Woodbridge Campus on Friday, March 18. The building is expected to be completed by the fall of Academic Building Phase III will add 83,915 square feet of academic space to the Woodbridge Campus. As a connection to the Seefeldt Building, the new building will house eight computer-based laboratories, a black box theater with 215 seats, a lecture hall with seating for 160, two art studios, an art gallery, a computer graphic design studio, three science laboratories, one Cisco computer laboratory, 11 classrooms, two open computer lounges, a photo studio equipped with a dark room, 35 faculty offices and 12 group study rooms. The building will provide the Campus with a new cafeteria with seats for 120 people as well as additional seating on an outdoor patio. The Campus Library will also move to a new location with 7,350 square feet. The building will include a geothermal heating and cooling system and will meet LEED Silver Certifica- Continued on page 4 3

4 NOVASIGHTINGS Intercom Reminders Faculty and staff contributors and readers: Deadline: Submissions must be received (via ) by 5:00 p.m. on Fridays to be considered for the following week s edition. Submission Guidelines: Submissions should be ed to intercom@nvcc.edu. Unformatted text should be sent in an MSWord document or may be put into the body of the . All photos should be attached as jpeg, bmp, tif or eps files; photo captions and credit should also be included with your text. For complete guidelines, please go online to guidelines.htm. Please make sure to also submit captions (including names and titles) for staff and faculty seen in any photographs. Also remember that all news submissions should highlight NOVA faculty and/or staff. Woodbridge Campus Breaks Ground for Academic Building Phase III Continued from page 3 tion. The architectural firm for the new building is Grimm + Parker of McLean, Virginia. Whiting-Turner will serve as the construction management firm for the project. Speakers included Virginia Community College System Chancellor Glenn DuBois, President Robert G. Templin, Jr., NOVA Board Chairman James White, NOVA Board member and Prince William County representative Michael Wooten and Student Government Association President for the Woodbridge Campus Judith Theissen. Remarks were also given by Senator Charles Colgan, Senator Toddy Puller, Delegate Scott Lingamfelter, Delegate Luke Torian and Delegate Richard Anderson. Prince William County Board of Supervisors Chairman-at-Large Corey Stewart also spoke at the event. Guests in attendance included Dumfries District Supervisor Maureen Caddigan, Kathleen Seefeldt, Kelly Easterly, Chief of Staff for Neabsco District Supervisor John Jenkins, the Executive Director of Prince William County Economic Development Martin Briley, the CEO of the Prince William Chamber of Commerce Rob Clapper, representatives from the architect firm Grimm + Parker, representatives from the construction firm Whiting-Turner, and administrative council members, faculty, staff and students from NOVA. 4

5 NOVASIGHTINGS Delegate Sickles Visits the Medical Education Campus Provost Brian Foley, Delegate Mark Sickles (D-43) and Tony Bansal, HIS CoE Executive in Residence. On March 11, Delegate Mark Sickles (D-43) visited the Medical Education Campus (MEC). Also in attendance were Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez and Roberto Gonzalez, Medical Services International; Shelia Dean and Leslie Addison, Affiliated Computer Services; and Bernie Galla, Howard University Hospital. They visited to learn more about the electronic health record (EHR) courses offered through a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator, Department of Health and Human Services (grant number 90CC00801/10). A portion of this grant, activated through the Health Information Systems (HIS) Center of Excellence (CoE), provides the funding for NOVA to train individuals in the six workforce roles defined in the grant: Implementation Support Specialist Clinician/Practitioner Consultant Implementation Manager Technical/Software Support Electronic Health Records Trainer Practice Workflow and Information Management Redesign Specialist The grant also resulted in the formation of the Community Colleges Consortia. In this immediate area, two other members are participating in the grant: The Community College of Baltimore County and Community College of the District of Columbia. At NOVA, the HIS CoE is the lead for developing, coordinating and completing the competency examination for community colleges with the Office of the National Coordinator, American Health Information Management for the Association (AHIMA), and PierceVue, a very important role and responsibility. Finally, the NoVAHealthFORCE is intimately involved to address the shortage of the workforce roles in Northern Virginia described above. 5

6 NOVASIGHTINGS Annandale Campus Book Club Meet and Discuss Myla Goldberg s Book Provost Barbara Saperstone, Debbie Rosen, Cheri Lemieux Spiegel, Carol Ischinger, Nancy Minogue and Patty Hill (Not pictured: Anita Gulbrandsen and Betsy Tebow). In March, the Annandale Campus Book Club met to discuss The False Friend by Myla Goldberg. For the first time, the book club was able to have the author visit the group - using Skype, which allows for online video calling. The author was a very engaging speaker. She answered all the group s questions with humor and enthusiasm and gave insights into her writing process. The group greatly enjoyed this new experience and hopes to have more authors visit the club through Skype in the future. The club always welcomes new members. For more information, contact Carol Ischinger at cischinger@nvcc.edu. Pictured to the right: The Annandale Campus Book Club listens intently to Goldberg s insights into her book The False Friend. 6

7 NOVASIGHTINGS NOVA Chef and Culinary Students Visit Bond 45 Restaurant On Tuesday, March 22, a group of six NOVA culinary students, along with Chef Mike Herbert, visited Bond 45 Restaurant at National Harbor to experience a mozzarella cheese-making presentation by Chef Enzo Febbraro. Febbraro, a native of Naples, Italy, graciously agreed to demonstrate to a group of eager students how to make mozzarella cheese. He showed students how to start with the raw curds and transform them into the most flavorful mozzarella they ever savored. Febbraro first took the curds and poured lukewarm water on them, as he said To not shock the curds and make them tough. He then gradually added warmer and then hotter water, draining the water and kneading the curds until they became smooth and pliable. The students, under the guidance of Febbraro, took turns as they formed and pinched off the cheese into balls. Everyone then tasted not only their own mozzarella, but samples of water buffalo milk mozzarella, and mozzarella stuffed with mascarpone cheese. To top off this most enjoyable event, Febbraro showed how Bond 45 dry ages their meats. Everyone agreed this was truly an informative and entertaining experience and were grateful for Febbraro s hospitality. Pictured to the right: John Jessup with Chef Enzo Febbraro. Video on Demand: Dr. W. Lance Haworth NVCC-TV has posted the Science Seminar featuring Dr. W. Lance Haworth, who presented at the Annandale Campus. The video is titled Antarctic Images and can be accessed online: under Science Seminars. 7

8 UP&COMING A Cultural History of My Neighborhood on Exhibit - Photo Collages by Gail S. Rebhan Gail Rebhan, professor of photography at the Woodbridge Campus, has collaborated with the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center and Iona Senior Services to create a public art project and exhibition on the cultural history of the Tenleytown neighborhood. A Cultural History of My Neighborhood documents historic changes to the second oldest neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Beginning April 2, large photo collages can be seen in the windows of an empty building scheduled for renovation by the Douglas Development Corporation at the corner of Brandywine Street and Wisconsin Avenue, NW. The exhibit will continue through May 15. Fifteen smaller versions of the work will be displayed at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Using layers of various opacities, Rebhan combines old and new photographs, historic newspaper articles, old phone directories, and other memorabilia to create photo-collages that show how today's city is built upon the past. Text is integrated into the image. Some of the text is from oral histories, other text comes from historic documents, and some is her own writing. This project includes several events: April 2 - Exhibit Opening 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C Website: April 9 - Talk at the new Tenley library 2:00 p.m Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, D.C Website: After her short presentation on the project, participants will walk over to see the photo-collages at Brandywine and Wisconsin Avenue NW. May 1 - Meet the Artist Reception 3:30 p.m. This will be at Brandywine and Wisconsin Avenue NW. May 16 to 28 Rebhan will be collecting oral histories at Iona Senior Services. These oral histories may form the basis of new artwork. To learn more about Rebhan s work: 8

9 UP&COMING Calling Spring 2011 all Poets: Seminars All that on is Afghanistan Honors! Continued from page 7 The Loudoun Campus Honors Club is hosting its second rap/poetry reading event, Rapatry II, on Monday, April 4 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Student Lounge on the Loudoun Campus. This is an opportunity for poets and artists to gather, share, and listen to each other s work. The club is asking for all students, staff and faculty to sign up to read or perform an original work or a piece by another author. All are welcome to simply come and listen, too, as refreshments will be served courtesy of the Honors Club. If you are interested in performing, volunteering to help with the event, or have any questions about Rapatry II, contact Club Advisor Stacy Rice srice@nvcc.edu. Even if you do not sign up in advance, please attend and encourage your students to attend as well. Panel Discussion on Redistricting, Business Development and Governmental Spending On April 10 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., join in a political discussion about redistricting, business development and government spending. The panel will include State Senator Mark Herring, Delegate Tom Rust, Delegate Tag Greason, Lovettsville Mayor Elaine Walker, Purcellville Mayor Robert W. Lazaro, Jr., Leesburg Mayor Kristen C. Umstattd, Loudoun County Supervisor Kelly Burke and Supervisor Stevens Miller. Mark Plotkin of WTOP will be the emcee. The schedule will include: Meet and Greet 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Network and Refreshments 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event will take place in the Waddell Theater on the Loudoun Campus (1000 Harry Byrd Highway Sterling, Virginia ). For directions: Photo by Mark Bennington The event was organized by Professor Rosemarie A. Pelletier and her political science students from the Reston Center. Faculty Honors Workshop The College Honors Committee will host a Faculty Honors Workshop on Tuesday, April 12 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the CE Forum on the Annandale Campus. If you are interested in teaching an Honors or Honors Option Course or have taught Honors before, we welcome you to this workshop. There will be a brief introduction by the NOVA College Honors Coordinator Stacy Rice, with breakout sessions following. The groups will be divided by disciplines so that participants from all campuses can share ideas for Honors courses, assignments, syllabi, and more. By the end of the event, the best practices for Honors courses will be shared so every discipline can benefit. This event is designed to assist Honors faculty, new and seasoned, when teaching an Honors or Honors Option course. Please register in advance via the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Lunch will also be served. This event will be videotaped and posted to Blackboard for those who cannot attend. For more information: 9

10 UP&COMING International Studies Committee Events The remaining seminars on Afghanistan will be held on the Alexandria Campus. There are as follows: Dr. David Kilcullen on Counterinsurgency Warfare in Afghanistan Tuesday, April 12 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Bisdorf Building, room 196 (AA-196) Kilcullen is the president and CEO of Caerus Associates ( He will speak for 40 to 45 minutes and allow 15 to 25 minutes for questions and answers. Prior to joining private industry Kilcullen had a distinguished career in both the Australian and United States governments, including 22 years as an infantry officer in the Australian Army, during which he served in counterinsurgency, stability and peacekeeping operations in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. After leaving the Army, Kilcullen served in Australia s Office of National Assessments, then with the U.S. State Department, first as chief strategist in the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, then as special adviser for Counterinsurgency to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He served in the Iraq War as Senior Counterinsurgency Adviser to General David Petraeus during the successful 2007 surge and in Afghanistan as counterinsurgency adviser to the International Security Assistance Force during He was a member of the White House review of Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy in 2008 and has advised the highest levels of the Bush and Obama administrations, as well as several allied governments. Kilcullen s academic background is in the political anthropology of conflict in traditional and developing societies. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 2000, is a study of the impact of insurgency on political development, and draws on his extended residential fieldwork with guerrillas, militias and local people in remote parts of Indonesia, New Guinea and East Timor. He is a senior non-resident fellow of the Center for a New American Security, is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, regularly teaches and presents at academic institutions and industry conferences worldwide, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including The Accidental Guerrilla (2009), Counterinsurgency (2010) and Out of the Mountains (forthcoming in 2011), all from Oxford University Press. This event is free and open to all! Help the Afghan Children (HTAC) presentation by Director of U.S. Operations Stephen Perlma Tuesday, April 19 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Bisdorf Building, room 196 (AA-196) Stephen Perlman will share the needs of children in Afghanistan, how Help the Afghan Children (HTAC) came about to address those needs, how they accomplish their goals and how people can get involved. According to the HTAC website, Help the Afghan Children is a non-profit, non-partisan, charitable organization, established in 1993 by Suraya Sadeed, an Afghan-American woman. It was founded in response to the horrible conditions that Afghan children faced during Afghanistan s civil war in the early 1990s. HTAC is committed to educating and empowering a new generation of Afghan children to become proud, productive citizens and future leaders of their country. The organization believes that investing in children is the best long-term strategy in ending Afghanistan s continuous conflict, poverty, ignorance, fear and neglect and to establish peace, stability and prosperity in Afghanistan and beyond its borders. HTAC accomplishes its work by establishing model schools, delivering innovative learning programs and investing in local communities. HTAC knows Afghanistan. All of the in-country operations officers and staff are Afghan professionals living in Afghanistan. They know the culture, speak the language, are in touch with the country s pulse and what people want and expect in bringing quality education to their respective communities. To learn more: This event is free and open to all! 10

11 UP&COMING Spring Faces 2011 I Remember Seminars on on Exhibit Afghanistan at Manassas Continued from page 7 Paintings by Thom Ciarniello will be on display at the Manassas Campus through April 11. The exhibition called Faces I Remember represents a 37-year journey. Ciarniello was born in 1955 in Youngstown, Ohio, to a large Spanish/Italian extended family. From an early period, he remembers being fascinated by people s faces, their expressions, their coloring, and the way a face can make you feel rooted or uprooted. His earliest paintings were landscapes; however, upon graduation from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, his goal was to master the face on canvas. Early attempts were of the people who centered his life - his grandmothers. Paralleling his journey in art was his career in cosmetology and esthiology. Ciarniello s day job became very successful, but he would say he is an accidental businessman. He owns three salons and two (from left) Provost Hortense Hinton and Fine Arts Program Head Randy Michener welcomed Thom Ciar- schools in Ohio and Nevada, yet his passion remains with art, especially portraiture. As his businesses niello to the Manassas Campus. Ciarniello s sister, Associate Professor of English Laura Casal, introduced grew, he began to allow himself time for furthering his the artist to her colleagues during a reception in his art education. honor. He studied at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under the tutelage of Nelson Shank s team of artists. He regularly studies at the Art League and Torpedo Factory in Alexandria with such artists as Priscilla Photo by Treacy Mark Bennington and Robert Liberace. These fine artists and hours of practice in his Ohio studio honed Ciarniello s skills. The faces in the show captured my imagination and some of the faces have my heart as well, Ciarniello said. I am grateful to Randy Michener for making this show possible. Randy s gesture of support humbles me and offers a memory always cherished: an opportunity to have an audience for my art. The exhibition is open 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Fridays. To learn more, contact Michener at or rmichener@nvcc.edu. Ken Paul Rosenthal s Documentary Crooked Beauty Ken Paul Rosenthal s documentary film, Crooked Beauty, will be shown on April 14 from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Waddell Theatre on the Loudoun Campus. Sponsored by NOVA s Psychology Club and Honors Club, the event is open to faculty, staff, students and the public. Faculty are asked to encourage students to attend. Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy. It is an intimate portrait of her intense personal quest to live with courage and dignity, and a powerful critique of standard psychiatric treatments. Poignant testimonials connect the fissures and fault lines of human nature to the unstable topography and mercurial weather patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crooked Beauty reshapes mental health stigmas through a new healing culture and political model for living with madness as a tool of creativity, inspiration and hope. From For more information, visit (academic) (general public) 11

12 UP&COMING Alumni Federation to Host Faculty of the Year Reception The NVCC Alumni Federation Board of Governors cordially invites you to attend the 2011 Faculty of the Year Reception to be held in the Richard J. Ernst Community Cultural Center Forum on Friday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m. All nominees will receive a certificate and one faculty member from each campus will receive the annual Faculty of the Year Jefferson Cup from the Alumni Federation. Additionally, one adjunct faculty award will be presented. Winners are nominated by alumni and students and selected by the NVCC Alumni Federation Faculty of the Year Committee. Please notify Michelle Beaini, NVCC Educational Foundation, at or mbeaini@nvcc.edu no later than Wednesday, April 13 if you are attending. NOVA s inaugural Legacy Lecture will be held on April 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the CE Forum on the Annandale Campus. The Legacy Lecture will be given annually by a distinguished retiring senior faculty member on the Annandale Campus. Sponsored by Annandale Campus Council, the event is free and open to the public. This year s speaker is Dr. Terrence (Terry) Doyle, author, educator and professor of Communication Studies (CST) in the Liberal Arts Division. He will speak on his reflections on higher education and his career at NOVA. Doyle has taught at NOVA since 1989 and was one of the earliest developers of hybrid course teaching technologies and distance learning communication courses for the Extended Learning Institute. He also served as a faculty mentor for the Technology Applications Center (TAC) to create training materials for hybrid course development, Blackboard, emeetings and more. During his career, Doyle has given numerous presentations at New Horizons and other conferences. He was also a member of the Curriculum Committee and Annandale s Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable Committee and served as Communication Studies cluster chair and as Assistant Division Chair for Humanities. Inaugural Legacy Lecture Dr. Terrence (Terry) Doyle, professor of Communication Studies. 12

13 HOTTOPICS Leave Sharing Request Michele Malek (LO) has requested to participate in the leave sharing program. If you would like to donate leave hours, please access a Leave Sharing Program Donor Form by copying the following URL into your web browser: Please complete the form and fax it to Human Resources at Leave must be donated in 8-hour increments and only annual leave may be donated. If you need other assistance or have questions about NOVA s Leave Sharing Program, please contact Sonia Aboulhosn at Training Available for New Human Resources Management System Live Date April 11 Along with all Virginia Community College System (VCCS) institutions, NOVA is transitioning to the PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System (HRMS) for most Human Resources (HR) transactions. The go live date for this change is April 11. From that point forward, all NOVA employees, except adjunct faculty, will use HRMS to enter time, attendance, leave and personal information. The new system will generate payroll. HRMS training is now available for all employees (other than adjunct faculty), online through NOVA s new Professional Development Center (PDC). To access the HRMS training, go to the PDC, NOVA s portal to the Commonwealth of Virginia Knowledge Center: Save the link as one of your favorites so you can return to the PDC login screen easily. How to log in to the PDC: 1. If you have never used the State s Knowledge Center, you will need to register in the PDC by choosing a Login ID and Password. This can be done at the PDC login screen by clicking the register link and following the instructions. 2. If you have used the State s Knowledge Center in the past but do not remember your Login ID or Password, you can get help by using the Forgot Login and/or Forgot Password links found at the bottom of the PDC Login screen. 3. Otherwise, the PDC Login ID and Password are the same ones you have used in the past to log in to the State s Knowledge Center. Accessing the HRMS Training: Once you log in and are brought to the PDC home page: 1. Click on Learning Center. 2. Click on Course Information and Enrollment. 3. Enter HRMS as the keyword, click search and a list of HRMS courses will appear. All NOVA employees who will use HRMS must complete two courses: VCCS PeopleSoft HRMS Overview (Online) VCCS PeopleSoft HRMS Employee Self Service (Online) All NOVA supervisors will also complete the following: VCCS PeopleSoft HRMS Manager Self Service (Online) To begin taking a course, simply click on the underlined title, then click Take Course, and follow the instructions. You will find the job aids that are available with the training especially helpful. If you have trouble logging in or accessing the training, please contact the IT Help Desk at ithelpdesk@nvcc.edu or Please note that the attachment section of the Intercom can be accessed online at: 13