Pros
Great benefits (for faculty), good work/life balance, working with students is rewarding
Cons
Morale is very poor, this is the type of place where you do not need to do work if you do not want to, it is basically impossible to get fired. It is frustrating to see others earning the same pay doing little. Conversely there is not any reward for working hard, when there are raises they go to everyone equally or go to which ever job groups are most underpaid, they do not have anything to do with individual performance. Raises are so infrequent that new employees are often paid more than people who have been working at NOVA for 10 or 20 years which further impacts morale. Did I mention salarys are very low for northern VA. HS teachers are much better paid than teaching faculty here. Montgomery College also pays much better an average of about 10k more per year for teaching faculty. Before working here I would suggest going to one of the campuses and talking to a few employees.