Feb 11, 2016 | Intercom, Welcome to NMC
Lynne Moritz joined NMC as the President’s Office Administrative Assistant on February 8, 2016. She can be reached at (231) 995-1017 or lmoritz@nmc.edu.
Lynne is originally from Livonia, MI – about 20 minutes from Detroit. She moved to East Lansing to attend Michigan State University, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in History and also studied Psychology and Secondary Education. Her husband is originally from Traverse City and after 10 years in the Lansing area they relocated here this fall for his career. After leaving the teaching profession Lynne has held various positions, with her most recent being as an administrative assistant at an ISP in East Lansing. She loves reading, crossword puzzles, yoga, Spartan football, and being outdoors with her husband and puppy (a 1-year-old lab/pointer mix named Otto). (more…)
Feb 11, 2016 | Intercom, Student News
Celebrate Leap Year with 20 inspiring ideas worth spreading at the first ever TEDxTraverseCity Pitch-Night on Monday, February 29 in the Milliken Auditorium. Among the 20 local community members selected to make a pitch are individuals from the NMC Community such as student Andrew Estes and faculty member Steve Rice.
The event is free to the public and doors open at 5pm for a 5:30pm program start! Join us and help select the top three pitches to be included in the live TEDxTraverseCity event on May 11. (more…)
Feb 11, 2016 | Intercom, Student News
TRAVERSE CITY — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget recommendation for the fiscal year beginning in October includes NMC’s West Hall renovation and innovation project as one of only three recommended community college capital outlay projects.
If approved, the recommendation made to the Michigan Legislature this week would bring $7.2 million in state funds toward the $14.4 million total cost to renovate and expand 50-year-old West Hall. The goal is a new space housing robust, technology-rich and flexible learning labs to be used across the curriculum for simulation, team-based and project learning.
The ranking is a significant improvement for NMC. Last year the West Hall Innovation Center ranked fourteenth among capital outlay projects. The next step is for the House and Senate Joint Capital Outlay Appropriations Subcommittee to meet and determine if they will accept the governor’s proposal or make additions or subtractions to the capital outlay list.
Snyder has proposed that a capital outlay bill move concurrent with consideration of the overall fiscal 2017 budget bills, which would put completion of the capital outlay bill in June. However, any legislative effort to add projects could push consideration of a capital outlay bill into the post-election lame duck period this fall.
“We’re pleased to have risen significantly on the governor’s priority list,” said President Timothy J. Nelson, noting the support of regional legislators Representative Larry Inman (R-Traverse City), Senator Wayne Schmidt (R-Traverse City) and Senator Darwin Booher (R-Evart). “We now need to continue to make the case for the importance of this project to our learners and our region’s economy.”
The project would almost double the size of West Hall, from 20,000 to 38,000 square feet. It would provide for 13 adaptive learning spaces that can be configured to accommodate traditional learning, hacker space and entrepreneurial activities. Read more about the project.
Gov. Snyder’s budget also proposes a 2.9 percent increase in total community college funding statewide, and a 2.3 percent increase for NMC. This breaks down to $9.2 million for operations and $209,500 in performance funding.
Release date: February 11, 2016
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Gabriel Schneider
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