Mar 1, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
A high demand for those with associate’s degrees is setting a new trend in the workforce of today and a new strategy for college hopefuls of the future. Studies show that in some states, on average, community college graduates straight out of school are making more than graduates of four-year universities. As the perception changes that a bachelor’s degree is the default, community colleges continue to prove to be the best value in education.
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http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/26/pf/college/community-college-earnings/index.html
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Michigan Community College Association is working with Interact Communications, a National Marketing Firm, to create a statewide brand and messaging campaign that allows our community colleges to compete strongly with our local, regional and national competitors. While their brand research will involve focus groups, interviews and a statewide survey, Interact wants to start first with all of you, our internal stakeholders. They are asking every faculty, staff, volunteer and student at all the community colleges in the state, to participate in an online survey. The survey asks only nine questions, but they are important questions about what we do well, our competition and what you all believe our communities should know about our college.
As a member of this college and in turn a part of the larger sector of community colleges across the state, your voice, input, and insight are extremely valuable to this research process. Please use the following link that will direct you to an online survey. This survey is taken anonymously, and the data will only be used in aggregate, so feel free to be honest. The survey itself will only take you 5-10 minutes to complete.
Thank you for your time and input.
http://interactresearch.org/mcca/attributes/
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
As part of the ongoing collaboration between Northwestern Michigan College and Western Michigan University, two WMU courses focused on freshwater research will be offered summer 2013 at NMC.
Faculty and staff from WMU and NMC will be offering an information session about the courses and our freshwater studies program collaboration.
Come join us for pizza, fun and the latest news.
Mark your calendars!
March 15, Great Lakes Campus Room 112
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The courses are:
BIOS 5545, Human Impacts Great Lakes (3 cr)
Dr. Charles Ide
Online May 6 – June 26
Meets face to face:
Friday, May 31 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Saturday June 1 9-5:00 p.m.
Sunday June 2 9-12:00 p.m.
BIOS 5535 Freshwater Ecology (4 cr)
Julie Ryan
Online June 27-August 16
Meets face to face:
June 27, Thursday 3 hours, times to be determined
July 1 – August 12 Monday’s 10 -3:00 p.m.
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
NMC Painting Instructor Joan Gallagher Richmond is the featured artist for March and April at Gallery 50 in Traverse City.
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
Community members of all ages, from students to retirees, interested in learning about global studies and international opportunities here in northwest Michigan are invited to attend the second annual Go Global Fair and Expo from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 10 at NMC’s Hagerty Conference Center.
Free for all attendees, the event features information about programs, services, and other opportunities for making global connections in northwest Michigan. Exhibitors will include study abroad and international youth exchange programs, area language clubs, service learning opportunities, travel clubs, international adoption services, and organizations with a cultural or ethnic appreciation focus such as the Traverse Area District Library and the Dennos Museum Center.
International dessert samples and coffee will be available as well.
The event is sponsored by NMC and Traverse City Area Public Schools.
Find out more about international opportunities at NMC »
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present, Leslie McCurdy in “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 7 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $10 plus ticket fees. Tickets may be purchased on line at www.dennosmuseum.org or by calling the box office at 231-995-1553. This production is part of the Embrace the Dream project supported by DTE Energy Foundation and with additional major support from the Michigan Humanities Council and NMC Student Life.
Ticket holders to this performance will have free admission to the museum’s galleries prior to the performance.
There are many plays about Harriet Tubman, but none share her entire life story like a visit with The Spirit of Harriet Tubman. Leslie McCurdy invokes the ‘spirit’ of Harriet Tubman as she portrays the life of the famous Underground Railroad conductor, recreating stories familiar and some rarely told, using words said to have been Harriet Tubman¹s own. Through it all we learn of the faith and conviction that drove Harriet Tubman to follow her dreams; the spirit of the past connecting with the present, inspiring her charges to have the courage to do the same in envisioning their future.
Born into slavery in Maryland, Harriet Tubman not only ran away alone to escape slavery, she returned to the south nineteen times to lead over three hundred other slaves to freedom in the northern United States and Canada. Her work as a nurse and a spy during the civil war was instrumental in helping the North defeat the South, thus forcing the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Leslie McCurdy captivates her audience in “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” with only a trunk of costumes and a barren stage as her landscape. For a breathtaking hour, she embodies the “spirit” of Harriet Tubman and shares Harriet’s empowering story woven with words said to have been Harriet’s own. Leslie takes the audience through Ms. Tubman’s childhood, her harrowing solo flight from slavery, her dedicated involvement with the Underground Railroad, her victorious rescue mission during the civil war and her commitment to others in her later years. This inspiring solo performance, by an artist described as being “of exceptional skill and grace”, teaches of the faith and conviction that drove Harriet Tubman to follow her dreams; the spirit of the past connecting with the present, inspiring her charges to have the courage to do the same in envisioning their future. It has been called “brilliant!”, “a powerful, must see performance!!”, “something to be experienced by everyone!”
Named Outstanding Performing Artist of Windsor Ontario, Canada, Leslie McCurdy, has been performing for many years in Southwestern Ontario and the Mid-Western United States, a privilege her dual US/Canadian citizenship affords her. Also a teacher, with an honors B.F.A. in dance from the University of Michigan, Leslie was slated to go to New York to apprentice with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre when she literally tripped, fractured her hip, and fell into acting. While she has many theatre credits, Leslie is best known for the one-woman plays that she wrote and has toured with internationally for 15 years.
Leslie McCurdy will offer two performances for schools on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM in the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center. Call 231-995-1029 for information or to purchase tickets for the school performances.
The Dennos concert season is made possible with support from the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Begonia Foundation with media support from WNMC 90.7, CMU Public Broadcasting and TV 29&8. Housing for our performers is provided by the Cambria Suites and Days Inn.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday’s until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1701 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Chestnut parking lot will be closed from Friday, March 1 at 5 p.m. until Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m. to clear out the excess snow.
This is being done over the weekend to impact the fewest amount of people possible.
Feb 28, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present Dervish from Ireland on Friday, March 2, 2013 at 8:00 PM in the Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $25 in advance, $28 at the door, $22 for Museum Members. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Museum Box office at 231-995-1553 or on line at www.dennosmuseum.org.
Dervish plays music from the West of Ireland with passionate vocals and dazzling instrumentals. The Sligo Borough Council’s decision to award Dervish the Freedom of the Borough of Sligo cemented the group’s position as preeminent band in Ireland’s wild west. It raised them into the exalted company of poet W.B. Yeats, who was the first person to be awarded the freedom of Sligo.
Built upon two sturdy pillars — the hauntingly charismatic vocals of Cathy Jordan and the dazzling virtuosity of award-winning instrumentalists like Tom Morrow on fiddle, Liam Kelly on flute, and Shane Mitchell on accordion, Dervish is a solid structure of a band, its foundation in legendary pub sessions, its shape the result of years of international touring. In the most recent of many honors, Dervish was recently chosen to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest. In 2005, just after the group toured China in the company of the Prime Minister, Ireland’s premier music magazine Hot Press voted the band Best Traditional / Folk Group.
The solid rhythm playing of Brian McDonagh and Michael Holmes drives the band, whose concert performances are a myriad of tones and moods ranging from high energy tunes, played with fluidity and intuitiveness, to beautifully measured songs, from charming lyrics of life and love, to inspiring melodies that lift audiences from their seats. All the elements are drawn together by Cathy Jordan’s masterful stage presence. Her stories to the songs and her interaction with the audience draws people into the music in a way very few performers can achieve
Now, more than twenty years since first coming together and with four of the original members still at the helm, Dervish are more in demand than ever. Their colorful career has taken them to every corner of the globe and has seen them share center stage with such names as James Brown, The Buena Vista Social Club, Oasis, Sting, REM, Beck and many more. Dervish is a band that both celebrates Irish music and has been instrumental in bringing it to a worldwide audience.
With the purchase of a ticket to this performance, concert goers are invited to visit the museum’s galleries one hour before the concert and attend a post-concert reception with the performers.
The Dennos concert season is made possible with support from the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Trust, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Begonia Foundation with media support from WNMC 90.7, CMU Public Broadcasting and TV 29&8. Housing for our performers is provided by the Cambria Suites and Days Inn.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursdays until 8 PM, and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1701 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
Feb 27, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will open two new exhibitions on March10 that will be shown through June 2, 2013; Rufus Snoddy: The Wings of Icarus and Larry Cressman: Line Work.
Rufus Snoddy: The Wings of Icarus will showcase new works by this important nationally recognized artist who resides and works in the Traverse City area and continues to exhibit throughout the United States and other countries.
“Rufus Snoddy is a well-recognized artist is the region and his work has been shown often in many locations, when inviting Rufus to exhibit at the Dennos we encouraged him to present something that would be a dramatically different installation from what people have seen before,” says Gene Jenneman, Director of the Dennos, “Wings of Icarus is that exhibition.
Rufus writes of the exhibition, “The Wings of Icarus is an installation of suspended construction paintings inspired by the mythological story of Icarus. I utilize traditional media and materials from my immediate environment to create visual metaphors. So too did Daedalus use the feathers, wood, wax and string found in the Labyrinth to make the wings he and his son Icarus used to escape the Prison of Minos. They both had successful attempts at flight, but in his haste, ignorance and arrogance, Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell to his demise. The story is an archetypal lesson of hubris, myopia and the intoxication of power.”
Larry Cressman: Line Work will showcase works by this nationally recognized artist who is a professor at the School of Art & Design and Residential College of the University of Michigan.
Line is the focus and driving force of Larry Cressman’s work. This exhibition will explore line on and off the wall with “installation drawings” that incorporate cane, twigs paper, graphite, wire, and other materials – much of it floating off the gallery wall or as 3-D constructions that hang from the ceiling and float within the gallery space.
Cressman writes, “I began to experiment by constructing drawings as collections of lines gathered into transparent envelopes. I wove lines through holes punctured in paper. Finally, I began to pin lines in gestural compositions directly on gallery walls – creating large line “drawings” that responded to the architectural space in which they were placed. Because these drawings were three-dimensional, light and shadow became a natural part of the work.”
Exhibition programming at the Dennos Museum Center is made possible with support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Hughes Memorial Endowment Fund. Housing support comes from Cambria Suites and media support from TV 7&4 and WCMU Public Broadcasting.
The Rufus Snoddy exhibition is additionally supported with underwriting from Richard and Diana Milock.
The Dennos Museum Center is open Monday to Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1410 College Drive, Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
Feb 22, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Dennos Museum Center at NMC will present the exhibition Modern Twist: Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Art from February 22 – June 2, 2013.
Modern Twist explores the innovative shape that bamboo art has taken since the mid-twentieth century, highlighting the creativity of 17 contemporary artists through a stunning collection of 38 works. These artists have challenged previous aesthetic conventions of bamboo art by experimenting with nonfunctional, sculptural forms, and have pushed their medium to new levels of concept and technique.
The pieces in the exhibition range from the mid-1960s to 2010, with most made during the last ten years. All but one of the artists still actively design and create new artworks, and many of the pieces have never been seen before in the United States.
Bamboo art is a unique Japanese phenomenon. As early as the eighth and ninth centuries, bamboo objects were used in Buddhist rituals, tea ceremonies, and ikebana (Japanese flower arranging), and became important features of these traditions. Bamboo art has been less widely recognized than other Japanese decorative arts such as ceramics and lacquer, but it is actually a highly demanding medium that requires years of study under the tutelage of a bamboo master. Modern Twist brings the creativity, innovation, and expertise of these artists to the forefront of the international art world.
Modern Twist will have a preview opening for members and guests on Friday, February 22 at 7 PM followed by a performance by Kuniko Yamamoto at 8 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Kuniko Yamamoto enchants audiences of every age with dramatic storytelling using myths and fables from ancient and modern Japan, spiced with social revelations to educate and amuse. Kuniko uses traditional Japanese music, handcrafted masks, stylized movement and a touch of magic to create an artistic balance of illusion and reality.
A native of Japan, Kuniko Yamamoto received her Bachelor of Psychology from Otani University of Kyoto, Japan in 1983. Started performing professionally in her hometown of Osaka where she grew up studying traditional dance, music and theater. She has received national exposure performing Japanese Storytelling at the Silk Road International Exposition and on Kansai National TV in 1985.
After which she came to the United States bringing ancient Japanese tales to life with shadows and magic performing constantly in theaters, schools, colleges, and festivals across the country including such venues as The Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Disney Epcot Japanese Pavilion, the International Children’s Festival in Canada among other noted venues.
Tickets for the 8 PM show are $22 members, $25 in advance and $28 at the door (plus fees) and may be purchased on line at www.dennosmuseum.org or by calling the box office at 231-995-1553. Performance ticket holders are invited to attend the 7 PM exhibition opening reception as well.
Kuniko Yamamoto will offer two performances for schools on Friday, February 22, 2013 at 9:30 AM and 11:30 AM in the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum Center. Teachers may call Jason Dake at 231-995-1029 or e-mail jdake@nmc.edu for information or to reserve tickets for the school performances.
Modern Twist was curated by Dr. Andreas Marks, Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture, and tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. The exhibition was generously supported by the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Nomura Foundation, Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, and the Snider Family Fund and is funded at the Dennos by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, The Komesu Memorial Fund, the Robert T and Ruth Haidt Hughes Memorial Endowment Fund, TV 7&4 and WCMU Public Broadcasting and Cambria Suites.
Feb 18, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
Sodexo, NMC’s food service partner, is presenting their spring customer survey. Click here to take the short survey and to enter to win a $25 gift card.
Feb 17, 2013 | Intercom, President Updates, Student News
February 21, 6-7:15 p.m. in Milliken Auditorium
National Security and the Politics of Intelligence – Author Joshua Rovner illustrates how politics, not “intelligence failures” led the U.S. into war in Iraq.
See the complete 2012-13 speaker schedule »
All current educators and students are admitted free. The public is invited to attend for $10 at the door. For more information, call NMC Extended Education at(231) 995-1700.
Feb 15, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Traverse City Winter Comedy Arts Festival is giving away a limited number of FREE tickets to NMC faculty, staff and students. Act now to get your FREE tickets to shows on Friday and Saturday including Robert Wuhl, Susie Essman & Allan Havey, Ephemera, Neal Brennan & Ian Edwards, TJ Miller & Sheng Wang, 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, Jeff Garlin, local improv group Good on Paper, John Fugelsang, and Pete Holmes & Eddie Pepitone. Check out show descriptions and comedian bios at www.wintercomedy.org.
To reserve your FREE tickets email katie.tcff@gmail.com with “NMC Free Tickets” in the subject line.
Hurry – a limited number of these FREE tickets are available!
Feb 15, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Russian Study Abroad presentation will be February 21, 2013, 5:30-8:30 pm in SH217. The first hour will be dedicated to covering the trip details followed by a showing of the movie Enemy at the Gates.
Feb 15, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
Phi Theta Kappa is hosting a fundraiser at Flap Jack Shack on Feb. 19th from 5-9pm. Just print out the flier, turn it in with your bill, and the NMC chapter will receive 15% of your tab. All funds will go to support our trip to Annual Convention in San Jose, CA this April.
Printable flyer »
Feb 13, 2013 | Student News
Order your cap/gown/tassel package now through March 15th at the NMC Bookstore.
Package price:$32.75 plus tax. Items also sold separately.
Questions? Call the bookstore at 995-1286.While you are there, check out our selection of diploma frames, alumni apparel and nursing pins.
Feb 12, 2013 | Student News
- Has one of your instructors made a real difference in YOUR educational journey?
- Have you told an instructor how much you appreciated all you learned in class?
- Have you let your instructors know how much you value the help you received during office hours?
- How about the class you HAD to take and assumed you wouldn’t like BUT ended up enjoying it because of an excellent instructor?
You have the opportunity to do all of these things and more. Submit an online nomination for an instructor for the Faculty Excellence Awards.
Your nomination, along with nominations from other students, will be reviewed by a Student Selection Committee to determine the Faculty Excellence Awards recipients. The award recipients will be announced at the May 4th Commencement Ceremony.
If the instructor(s) you nominated is not one of the award recipients, the instructor(s) will still be notified that they were nominated, along with anonymous comments from student nominations. You may nominate more than one instructor, but you cannot nominate an instructor more than once!
So give it some thought and submit your nomination(s)! Nominations will be accepted until March 11th, 2013 at this link: Click here to take a survey.
Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://nmcir.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6KWcxl33IVC319X
Feb 12, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
The Passport Student Lecture Series is a chance to explore other cultures through the experiences of NMC students.
Bring your lunch and hear international student Fatoumata Hanne speak about her native Mali.
Mali
Thursday, February 21, 12:15 pm
Founders Hall, room 110
www.nmc.edu/outreach
