Dozens of students staged a walkout at Northern Virginia Community College’s Annandale campus Nov. 12 to protest NOVA’s plan to convert the Humanities Building into HR and administrative offices.
“This removes classrooms, reduces course availability, and hurts students and faculty,” states an online petition posted by Krisdalys Dishmey, one of the student organizers. “We demand that the college keep the Humanities Building dedicated to learning.”
As students gathered in front of the Humanities Building, chanting, “Save our building,” a political science major told the group, “the administration is making this decision without input from students or faculty.”…