Northern Virginia Community College
Tagline	Student centered. Community focused.
Established	1965
Type	Public, 2-year, community college
President	Dr. Robert G. Templin, Jr.
Location	Annandale, Virginia, USA
Campus	8 campuses in Northern Virginia
Website	http://www.nvcc.edu

Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), comprising several locations in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., is the second largest multi-campus community college in the United States and the largest educational institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Locally, the college is referred to as "NOVA."

Since its establishment at the Annandale Campus in 1965, NVCC has added additional locations: Alexandria Campus; Manassas Campus; Woodbridge Campus; Loudoun Campus (in Sterling); a Medical Education Campus (in Springfield); an extension of the Alexandria Campus in Arlington, called the Arlington Center; and an extension of the Loudoun Campus in Reston, called the Reston Center. In 2003-2004, the college enrolled 63,000 students in credit courses and some 250,000 more in non-credit offerings. The student body is economically and ethnically diverse, and a quarter of enrollees are international students. The school offers a wide variety of courses, and encourages students to enroll in four-year colleges after completing their NVCC education. To do so, it fosters a system of preferred transfers into public colleges and universities located in the Commonwealth.

NVCC is part of the Virginia Community College System. The college's president is Dr. Robert G. Templin, Jr. Its fundraising arm, established in 1979, is the NVCC Educational Foundation. The NVCCEF has a Board of Directors, chaired by Phil Sparks, and its Executive Director is John Ruffino. Largely through the foundation's efforts, NVCC has been able to fund an increasing number of scholarships, and in 2001 completed the Rachel M. Schlesinger Center Concert Hall and Arts Center on the Alexandria Campus.

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• Northern Virginia Community College

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