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All-College Meeting Opens Spring Semester
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Naugatuck Valley Community College faculty and staff gathered for the beginning of semester All-College Meeting on February 2 in the community room located in the Center for Health Sciences in Founders Hall. The agenda included a welcome from NVCC President Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Ph.D. and updates from NVCC’s Honors Program as well as various units across the College. Highlights of ongoing programs and initiatives such as the development of a Center for Racial Dialogue and Communal Transformation, opening of an on-campus Food Pantry, efforts to engage in Opioid Abuse Prevention, and establishment of Smoke Free Campuses and the Vanguard Leadership Academy were also shared.
Amid state budget cuts and a general atmosphere of change and uncertainty, De Filippis expressed gratitude for the unwavering dedication of faculty and staff in their combined efforts to promote student success and live up to the College’s mission. President De Filippis said, “Whatever the question—education is the answer. Together we answer the question. Together we make the difference.”
Other accomplishments for the College this year include:
- hosting a fourth Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Aguibo Bougobali Sanou, an international performer hailing from Burkina Faso, West Africa, who will teach dance classes at the College and in the community,
- being named an Aspen Prize Top 150 U.S. Community College which makes the College eligible to compete for the $1 million Aspen Prize, and
- Upward Bound Math/Science (UBMS) grant that will support students in ensuring college readiness.
