NMC Dining Services is opening the doors to the Hawk Owl Cafe in the Oleson Center weekdays at 9 a.m., to give students and staff a place to hang out, listen to music, study, play pool, etc.
Food service at the Hawk Owl Cafe will still be available from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.
Come relax before or after class!
No Appointment Necessary! Visit Student Health Services in Biederman Building, Room 106:
Cost:
NOTE! All flu clinics subject to change per current CDC and/or GT Co. Health Dept. recommendations and vaccine availability.
Call 995-1255 with questions
Thirteen years ago, Becca Richardson calculated that her desire to stop waiting tables was greater than her fear of math.
Today she’s a living example of both facing her fears and calculating correctly. The former developmental math student is the newest member of NMC’s math faculty.
As an NMC student, Richardson’s math placement test score was so low that she avoided taking any math classes when she first enrolled, after her graduation from Benzie Central High School in 2002. After only a semester that had expanded into avoiding any classes whatsoever.
“I just gave up. Maybe college isn’t for me,” Richardson recalled thinking.
Two years later, however, waitressing was getting “really old” and Richardson returned. Her math placement score was still low, even below that recommended for the most entry-level math course, Math 08. Still, aware she needed at least one math class for a degree, she signed up.
“It only took me a few classes to decide I liked it,” she said. She earned a 4.0 from instructor Mark Nelson in the class, and even tutored classmates, who told her she was good at explaining concepts. Maybe she should consider becoming a teacher.
Richardson took that advice — and more math classes. She transferred from NMC to Ferris State at the University Center in 2007, earned her bachelor’s in math from in 2012, and a master’s from the University of Idaho in 2015. She also taught as an NMC adjunct for five years. As of this fall she’s officially come full circle, settled in the now-retired Nelson’s former office, right inside the Tanis Building’s Math Center, where students come for drop-in tutoring.
She sees reflections of her former self sitting in many of her classes.
“A lot of times, I can remember having the same exact questions,” said Richardson.
Besides herself as Exhibit A, Richardson now has encouraging words for those students.
“I don’t think there’s such a thing as being bad at math. You’re just not practiced,” she said. “Persistence and perseverance is what will get you through.”
Join author and activist Larry Plamondon for an in-depth look at the stories between the paintings in the exhibition, Visions of American Life: Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, 1850-1940, organized and toured by the Detroit Institute of Arts. Plamondon will offer a historical perspective of the time period as it relates to the Native American experience, pulling from his own involvement in various movements during the 20th century. Supported by a grant from Art Bridges. Sponsored by Northwestern Michigan College’s Native American Student Organization (NASO).
John Primer has undisputedly helped build the sound and style of Chicago blues as we know it today. The echos of tradition bellowing from the birthplaces he played such as: Maxwell Street, Theresa’s, Checkerboard and Rosa’s Lounges, pulse from every chord in his fingers today. John Primer is still at the top of his game. With his strong traditionalist blues phrasing, seasoned rhythm and blues vocals and lightning-fast slide guitar techniques, few artists can match him and none have his vast, real deal, blues history. John Primer is a Chicago Blues living legend.
Tickets are free for NMC students with valid ID (pick them up in person at the Museum), $24 for members, $27 advanced, and $30 at the door by calling the museum at 231.995.1055, MyNorth Tickets at 800.836.0717, or online at https://mynorthtickets.com/
Dawnland presented by Indy Lens Pop-Up (56 minutes)
By Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip
Follow the first government-sanctioned truth and reconciliation commission in the U.S., which investigates the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on Native American communities. With exclusive access to this groundbreaking process and never-before-seen footage, Dawnland reveals the untold narrative of Indigenous child removal in the United States. Supported by a grant from Art Bridges. Sponsored by Morsels of Traverse City.
Visit the Dennos for a day of celebrating the arts. Local partners and artists will be on hand to help inspire your work, whether it’s a drawing, painting, dance, or performance — anything goes! Day of the Arts is the official kickoff event for DRAW NoMI, a local event whose purpose is to encourage making art together. Supported by the Linda O’Meara Fund for Arts Education. The Museum will be free admission for children 17 and under.
Student jobs can be found on the Student MyNMC page under “Jobs On Campus.” Apply now for Fall 2018. (more…)
Dr. John Hartig, Great Lakes Science-Policy Advisor for the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR), will present “Restoring Polluted Areas of the Great Lakes” Wednesday, October 10 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 112 on NMC’s Great Lakes Campus. There is no charge to attend, but please RSVP to Cathy Jarvi at cjarvi@nmc.edu as seating is limited. Contact Dr. Constanza Hazelwood at chazelwood@nmc.edu for more information.
There will be voter registration in the Osterlin Library lobby on Tuesday September 25th and Wednesday September 26th 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The clerks of Grand Traverse County and Leelanau County will be on hand to register people immediately. Volunteers from the League of Women Voters Grand Traverse Area and League of Women Voters Leelanau County will be on hand to help with voter registration and polling place questions.
Tuesday, Sept. 25 is National Voter Registration Day.
Complete your entire Ferris bachelor’s degree right here in Traverse City! Our degree programs bring you a whole new world of possibilities on the NMC campus. Join us at our Open House to learn how to take the next step on Wednesday, October 24 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on campus at the Health & Science Building Atrium.
Advisors from all our offerings in TC will be there. On site admissions/Transfer up to 90 NMC credits! Free t-shirt for just stopping by! RSVP at Ferris.edu/TraverseCity.
NMC has had a new sidewalk installed on main campus that goes around the West Hall construction area, which will be fully fenced off after the September 24 groundbreaking ceremony. The temporary sidewalk starts directly between East and West halls and cuts across the grass to the long east-west sidewalk that connects the Health & Science Building to the Oleson Center.
This presentation is a unique opportunity to hear one of the world’s finest architects, Peter Bohlin, discuss the fundamental design principles that underlie his understanding of how great buildings consider the circumstances of the nature of people, places and how we make things.
The designing of Tusen Takk will serve as a means to explore the ideas behind many of the iconic modernist buildings that AIA Gold Medal recipient Peter Bohlin and his firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson (BCJ.com) have created. Geoffrey Peckham, a photographer and Tusen Takk’s visionary owner and director, will assist in describing Tusen Takk’s past, present and future.
Peter Bohlin was commissioned by Geoffrey Peckham to create Tusen Takk, a spectacular residence with a now under construction artist-in-residence guesthouse and studio located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Leelanau County. Individual artists, one at a time, will come from around the world to Tusen Takk to work for a short period of time. Plans are for collaboration activities to take place at Northwest Michigan College, The Dennos Museum or Leland’s Old Art Building where the Tusen Takk guest artist will share insights about their work with the people of this region.
Tickets are $10 and available by calling the museum at (231) 995-1055, MyNorth Tickets at 800-836-0717, or online at https://mynorthtickets.com/events/designing-tusen-takk. Tickets are free for NMC students with a valid photo ID (pick tickets up at the museum).
Are you ready for some football? Teams are currently being formed. Stop by the Fitness center and grab a form. Not enough for a full team? That’s okay, you can join one. Flag Football season starts Monday September 17 (for 5 weeks) followed by a playoff week. Two games will be played per week Monday–Thursday at 3:10, 4:10, 5:10 or 6:10 p.m.
*All players must buy and wear their own mouth guards*
For more information or questions please call Steven Dixon at 995-1379
Student jobs can be found on the Student MyNMC page under “Jobs On Campus.” Apply now for Fall 2018. (more…)
The annual celebration of Constitution Day will be held in the Osterlin Library lobby on Monday, September 17. Free pocket Constitutions, cake at noon, and a chance to voice your opinions on Constitutional issues. Join us in celebrating the document that has kept our nation on course for 229 years!
On Friday, September 14 from 4-6:30 p.m. in Scholar’s Hall your friendly neighborhood Black Student Union presents: “Roxanne, Roxanne”, based on the ugly but true story of 14-year old rap legend Roxanne Shante. “The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shante was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend, as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the street.”
Come by, watch the flick, and learn more about what the black student union can do for you. Our regular meetings are every Friday from 4-5 p.m., come by and ask about leadership and travel opportunities, community events and outreach that our group has planned for the year. WARNING: movie contains adult content and themes.
TRAVERSE CITY — Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) welcomes the community to the groundbreaking of the new West Hall Innovation Center and the rededication of the Shirley S. Okerstrom Fine Arts Building Monday, September 24, 2018.
“The building projects and the dual celebrations highlight our proud NMC past, as well as our exciting future,” said NMC President Timothy J. Nelson. “Their design, student impact, and community support demonstrate how NMC is, and has always been, a leader in creating forward-thinking structures to help our learners succeed.”
The West Hall Innovation Center project combines state investments of more than $7 million for important renovations and modernizations of the 50-year-old West Hall building with NMC-funded investments of more than $7 million to create a 54,000-square-foot, multi-story library and flexible learning space. It will incorporate innovative and transformative learning environments and multiple academic and simulation spaces. The project has received extensive campus, community and legislative support. For more information on the project go to www.nmc.edu/innovation.
The Shirley S. Okerstrom Fine Arts Building was the last building in the United States designed by famed Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius in 1969. The College invested in refurbishing the building’s unique cedar exterior and windows in 2018.
Groundbreaking at the West Hall Innovation Center begins at 11:30 a.m. followed by the rededication on the Shirley S. Okerstrom Fine Arts Building at 12:30 p.m.
Diana Fairbanks
Executive Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Communication
dfairbanks@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1019