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 STAR MARCH 2009

STAR STAFF

Staff Editor: Stephen Haggerty

Student STAR Team: Courtney Spradling, Samantha Clark, and Glen Jones

Want to see your name in the news? Become a part of our

team. Submit an article, picture, or idea to Samantha

Clark.

 

 

In This Month’s Issue

1. Scholarship Scoop 2. NOVA Stars RSO 3. Jane Says… 4. Reminders 5. Update on the Carnations 6. Stephen & D.C.! 7. Featured Article from

Glen Jones 8. Contact Information 9. RSO Event Wednesday!!

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!

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 25, 2009 Course Schedule Advising officially begins April 8, 2009 Sophmores may register April 10, 2009 All Continuing Freshmen

April 30, 2009 Course schedule advising officially ends for enrolled students. Advising resumes on August 20th   

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.  

We are so proud of the NOVA Stars Service Learning Team for 

selecting the NOVA RSO for their service‐learning project. The 

members of the team include, Courtney Spradling, Shayna 

Runyan, Paige Crabtree, Khyati Patel, TJ Best, Stephanie 

Barnett, Samantha Clark, Sarah Conner, Amber Wills, Josh 

Yeager, and David Lannum. What a great way to serve back 

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. 

 

Jane Tinsley

NOVA Program Director

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 

Advising resumes on August 20th  

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!

 

 

  

KAYLA’S CARNATIONS: Service-Learning Spring Fling

2009 By: Samantha Clark 

  

SERVICE-LEARNING POSTER SHOWCASE ALERT!!!

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6th 

WALNUT HALL LOUNGE  

Mark your calendars!!! 

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.

 

  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”                            

Express yourself: Student Submissions 

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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

 

      

 

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: Stephanie_barnett40@eku.edu (Public Relations Coordinator)