The Traverse City Parking Patrol began patrolling NMC on Monday, January 27, 2014. All faculty/staff and students must have their permits (expiration date June 1, 2014) displayed in the lower left hand side of their windshield by that date. Please remove all expired NMC permits. (more…)
Help Wanted!
Big Brothers Big Sisters is seeking responsible, reliable, positive-minded NMC students to volunteer as Big Brothers or Big Sisters in the local school-based mentoring programs. Guys: you’re ESPECIALLY needed, as the boys on our wait lists for a mentor are ever-increasing.
Big Brothers Big Sisters has programs conveniently located at Traverse Heights Elementary, Central Grade School, Eastern Elementary, Long Lake Elementary and Blair Elementary.
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College presents educational programs for winter 2014. (more…)
Student groups Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood and Grand Traverse Mycological Society are working together to bring the documentary Gasland II to NMC’s campus. (more…)
Do you enjoy traveling and exploring world cultures? Do you have a passion for teaching,
making new friends, and helping others? Could you see yourself stepping into the role of
global leadership and linguistic ambassadorship? If so, you may be a strong candidate for our
2014 US-Brazil Connect Fellowship Program! (more…)
NMC’s Parsons-Stulen Building (Room 157) will play host to the Mid-Michigan Innovation Center’s “Best Shot: Traverse City” competition. Ten pre-selected participants will deliver in an-person four minute sales pitch to a panel of judges, and the winner will receive prizes donated by area businesses, a one-year Gold Membership to the MidMichigan Innovation Center and an in-depth resources review.
The Dennos Museum Center will present Making Paper Dance: The Art of Pop-Up Books, January 19 – April 6, 2014.
Pop-up books have been engaging readers and non-readers alike for over 800 years. The fact that this form of book art has thrived, speaks to the fascination we have with the art of transforming two dimensional paper forms into a continuing chain of three-dimensional possibilities. Making Paper Dance: The Art of Pop-Up Books is both a nostalgic homage to early movable books and a view into the dynamic and ever-evolving world of pop-ups created in the 21st century.
Technology Help Desk (THD) is open for Spring 2014 Hours. Spring hours, contact options, locations, computer lab hours, and “what we support” are available on the THD webpage www.nmc.edu/help
Faculty, please be sure to point out the THD website to your students who may need technology support or computer lab information.
Open auditions for the third annual local production of “The Vagina Monologues” will be held January 16 and 17 in West Hall on NMC’s main campus.
A script will be provided. Auditions are from noon-2 p.m. Jan. 16 and 4-6 p.m. Jan. 17 in the West Hall conference room on the main level. The production of Eve Ensler’s play is scheduled for Feb. 22 in Milliken Auditorium, sponsored by NMC Student Life as well as Third Level Crisis Center
Are you interested in dodgeball? Would you like the opportunity to compete against other schools in this activity? If your answer is yes, then please submit your name, phone number and e-mail address to Jim Szur, Sport and Recreation Supervisor.
Jim can be reached at 995-1198 or via e-mail at jszur@nmc.edu
It is hoops time! Sign-Up for co-ed intramural basketball.
All players must be NMC students, and you must have at least one female player on the court at all times.
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New Procedure for Late Registration
1) All new registration for spring 2014 will end at the close of the day, January 9, 2014 for any session that begins on January 11. (NMC staff will be available in their offices until 5:00 p.m. for registration assistance.) Students who have not registered for any classes by that date will not be registered for classes starting in the normal 15 week session.
NMC’s Board of Trustees on Monday approved training agreements with six regional companies that will create 93 new jobs by 2018. (more…)
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the Chicago based blues group Mississippi Heat on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 8 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $25 advance, $28 at the door and $22 for museum members are plus fees. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Museum Box office at 231-995-1553 or on line at www.dennosmuseum.org, also at 1-800-836-0717 or www.MyNorthTickets.com.
Mississippi Heat has recorded ten albums and taken its brand of the blues from Chicago to the four corners of the world. They play heartfelt vintage Chicago Blues, led by world-class harmonicist Pierre Lacocque and lead singer Inetta Visor, a powerhouse vocalist in the Etta James tradition.
Mississippi Heat bandleader and blistering harmonica player Pierre Lacocque came to Chicago from Brussels, Belgium, where he was the only non-Jew ever to attend the Athenée Maimonides school—his Christian minister father felt that he should learn about the suffering of the Jews. As a teenager in Chicago, where his father was teaching theology, he heard a concert by harmonica player Big Walter Horton, and, he recalls, “I was absolutely stunned and in awe.” With that, his future as a blues musician was set.
Whether this is your first time taking an online course or you just need some additional help with Moodle, two Moodle Orientation and Open Lab sessions will be held:
Student Health Services will be closed December 21 through January 5, and reopen on Monday, January 6. (more…)
As a collaborative series of programs in its second year, Embrace the Dream brings together many institutions throughout the Grand Traverse region to provide free or low-cost programming for the public to experience in early 2014. This year’s partners include Dennos Museum Center; Northwestern Michigan College Student Life; History Center Traverse City; Building Bridges With Music; Great Lakes Children’s Museum; State Theater; Traverse Area District Library; Traverse City Human Rights Commission; and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. As its mission, Embrace the Dream is a collaboration founded upon the values of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., engaging the whole of our community through programming that inspires social justice and equality for all people. (more…)
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College has been gifted a selection of seven original screen prints by the noted American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987). The prints date from 1970-1986. (more…)