The NOVA STAR MARCH 2009 In This Month’s Issue STAR STAFF 1. Scholarship Scoop Staff Editor: Stephen Haggerty 2. NOVA Stars RSO 3. Jane Says… Student STAR Team: Courtney 4. Reminders Spradling, Samantha Clark, and Glen Jones 5. Update on the Carnations 6. Stephen & D.C.! Want to see your name in the 7. Featured Article from news? Become a part of our Glen Jones team. Submit an article, 8. Contact Information picture, or idea to Samantha 9. RSO Event Wednesday!! Clark. The Scholarship Scoop Emily Wells and Courtney Spradling have been selected to represent EKU NOVA in a competition amongst 18 other Student Support Services projects. Emily was chosen to compete for the KAEOPP scholarship and Courtney for the Susan Adams Leadership Award. Congratulations and good luck to you both! The NOVA registered student organization “NOVA Stars” has officially been approved!! The next step is recruitment. We hope to see everyone at our first social event on April 1st! Check out our flyer on the last page for more details! NOVA is getting a new look for fall 2010! The NOVA Team is working hard on the NOVA Student Support Services grant proposal due in fall 2009. The new grant will not take effect until fall 2010. However, we are going ahead and implementing new initiatives now, and we are unveiling one component of our new look this spring. We are proud to announce NOVA now has an official Registered Student Organization on campus called NOVA Stars. The NOVA RSO was created by one of the service learning teams from the GSD 225 S service‐learning course offered by NOVA. The RSO will allow participants to be engaged in service and provide a social network allowing participants to continue to develop strong interpersonal skills and continue building their leadership skills. Jane Tinsley We are so proud of the NOVA Stars Service Learning Team for NOVA Program selecting the NOVA RSO for their service‐learning project. The Director members March of the 25, team 2009 include,Course Schedule Courtney Advising Spradling, officially Shayna begins Runyan, AprilPaige 8, Crabtree,2009 Sophmores Khyati may Patel, register TJ Best, Stephanie Barnett, AprilSamantha 10, 2009 Clark, All Continuing Sarah Conner, Freshmen Amber Wills, Josh Yeager, and DavidApril 30,Lannum. 2009 Course What schedulea great way advising to serve officially back ends for enrolled students. Advising resumes on August 20th to NOVA! Thanks to all of you. Stay tuned to next month’s edition of the NOVA Star as we unveil more insights into what NOVA will look like in fall 2010. Summer Registration Starts o Freshmen: April 10th o Sophomores: April 8th o Juniors: April 6th o Seniors: April 3rd April 30, 2009 Course Schedule Advising Ends th Advising resumes on August 20 KAYLA’S CARNATIONS: Service-Learning Spring Fling 2009 By: Samantha Clark Spring is slowly prevailing with warmer temperatures and blooming flowers. Particularly, one flower has caught the eye of Richmond’s community. The GSD 225 S team “Carnations” added a little color and fun to the lives of the senior citizens by hosting a Spring Fling Senior Citizen Prom on Friday, March 20th. Kayla Sergent is the Peer Leader for this team of seven including: Austin Anderson, Brittany Belcher, Brittany Guffey, Kenra Henry, Casey Huffman, Lindsey Morris, and Amy Walters. Participants laughed, ate, and cut a rug with the lovely Carnations. Dee Ditch, one of the seniors attending, said “It’s great what they have done. Sorry we are not as active, but we all appreciate it.” Anthony Calder, a volunteer for the center, explained, “We just lost a senior, so the morale is a little low; this is just the thing they needed” Heather Slone the Director of the Bettie Miller Senior Citizen Center was pleased with this service- learning event. She said, “They love being around young people, it gives them a chance to get out and relive their youth. I believe that socialization is the key to a long and happy life.” We are proud of the Carnations for representing NOVA and giving back to their community. Keep up the great work! MR. HAGGERTY GOES TO WASHINGTON! Stephen traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend the 29th Annual TRIO Policy Seminar. During this time, he had the chance to shout out loudly why TRIO and EKU Student Support Services (NOVA) need to be supported (along with over 700 other TRIO professionals). According to Stephen, “it got quite loud….but we need to be louder!” He represented our program well, and we all know he is going to be asking us to be NOVA Stars by supporting the cause for TRIO too! Go get out there and raise your voices for TRIO!!! Our Mission The NOVA program at Eastern Kentucky University is a TRiO Student Support Services project providing instruction and individualized support services empowering limited income and first generation EKU learners to persist and graduate. SERVICE-LEARNING POSTER SHOWCASE ALERT!!! WEDNESDAY, MAY 6th WALNUT HALL LOUNGE Mark your calendars!!! Express yourself: Student Submissions Send us your thoughts! Gallimaufry of Glen By: Glen Smith For my first column in the monthly NOVA newsletter, I find myself reflecting on my wonderful spring break in my hometown of Corbin. Amongst the charm of my small town, where people frolicked in the plies of snow…Wait a minute, I’m supposed to be on spring break and there’s snow? Not just that, but when the temperature rose my holiday was met with freezing rain, not good for someone whose means of transportation is walking. It wasn’t until I tried calling up some old friends to hang out with that I realized how out of touch I had been. The ones who haven’t moved are all married with kids. It seemed like I was pulling teeth in order to get them to mingle. My pursuits of having a fulfilling spring break finally led me to the streets of Corbin to try and find a job for the summer. Walking around with an inward determination to find a job for the summer; five stores and two and a half miles later, that determination I had felt started to dim. Apparently the economic crisis was worse than I thought. Unable to find any sort of diminutive entertainment, I finished the day by returning home and slipping deeply into the comforts of Facebook, MySpace, and Messenger. The following day I got in contact with an old high school friend, Kendra. We both decided it would be fun to go see our old agriculture teacher Mr. Evans. The day after we went to my high school of Lynn Camp, we met up with Mr. Evans and a few other old teachers. Then it happened. A teacher asks me to shower my wealth of knowledge concerning college like a fountain into the reflecting pool of freshmen idolizing me like the amazing college student I am. Ok it probably was my awesome faux hawk more than my grand stature of collegiate excellence. I maneuvered from class to class talking to freshmen about my experiences in college. I told them what they didn’t really know about the ACT, housing, financial aid, student workers on campus, and even NOVA. Just so Mr. Haggerty knows I endorsed NOVA like a “Sham Wow” or one of Billy May’s unique and loud sales pitch. It’s kind of funny, I wanted so bad to have something to do this spring break and when something finally fell into my lap I didn’t really want to do it. But I didn’t realize the impact it had on the students of Lynn Camp until I looked back on all the helpful information I gave them. Just goes to show, “There is always something to be done and always an impact waiting to be made… you just have to be the one to do it” Funding Statement The EKU NOVA program is a Student Support Services TRIO project, funded at $338,199 in federal funds from the U.S. Department of Education for the 2008/09 fiscal year to serve 206 eligible EKU students. This disclosure is made in compliance with Public L Law 108-477 Sec. 506.aw 108-447. Jane Tinsley Stephen Haggerty Sharon Lee Valerie Merlin --- EKU TRIO Student Support Services NOVA Program Eastern Kentucky University 2nd Floor, Turley House Richmond, KY 40475 (859) 622-1047 Eastern Kentucky University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and educational institution and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or Vietnam era or other veteran status, in the admission to, or participation in, any educational program or activity which it conducts, or in any employment policy or practice. Any complaint arising by reason of alleged discrimination should be directed to the: Equal Opportunity Office, Eastern Kentucky University, Jones Building, Room 106, Coates CPS 37A, Richmond, Kentucky 40475-3102, (859)622-8020 (V/TDD), or the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education: Philadelphia, PA. It might be April Fool’s… but we’re not fooling you! The NOVA STARs We are inviting you to join us at our opening celebration of the first NOVA registered student organization. This event will kick off our recruitment campaign. Come for the pizza and brownies; come to play games and meet other NOVAs; Come to make history! We hope to see YOU there! When: April 1st from 4:00-6:30 Where: Turley House lawn (rain location: Turley Kitchen) RSVP to: [email protected] (Public Relations Coordinator) .