Take a Sodexo survey, enter to win a $25 gift card
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.
IAF Lecture: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
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.
Limited number of FREE Comedy Fest tickets for NMC Faculty, Staff and Students
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!
Russia: A Study Abroad Presentation
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.
Phi Theta Kappa Fundraiser
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.
Congratulations 2013 Graduates!
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.
Nominate a great instructor for the Faculty Excellence Awards
- 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/
Passport Student Lecture Series – Mali- Feb. 21
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
Nursing information session – Feb 27
Nursing Information Session
Wednesday, February 27
4 – 6 p.m.
Oleson Center, NMC’s Main Campus
Please join us for a Nursing Information Session on February 27, 2013 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Oleson Center. This session will better acquaint you with our Nursing program, review admissions criteria and discuss program policies and procedures. If you are interested in attending the Nursing Information Session please complete the registration form available on the Advising Center webpage (www.nmc.edu/advising).
NMC concert band presents Portraits, March 1
Portraits, a rich and colorful mixture of painting, poetry, music, and literature will unfold in Milliken Auditorium on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College on March 1 at 8:00 p.m.
Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings, The Potato Eaters, La Bercueuse, The Zuave, and Self Portrait of the Artist were the inspiration for a dramatic work composed by Aldo Rafael Forte in 1996 for the Heritage Air Force Band of America. The work is entitled Portraits. The four paintings will be projected during the NMC Concert Band’s performance of the suite.
A virtual tour of the great French museum, the Louvre, will be accompanied by a descriptive piece by Norman Dello Joio entitled, “Scenes from the Louvre.” Originally the Dello Joio piece was the sound track for a 1950’s prize winning television special. It depicts several characteristic galleries as experienced by the viewer.
Dylan Thomas’ well known poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” inspired composer Elliot Del Borgo to compose a musical companion piece bearing the same title. It reflects the struggles, doubts, and eventually the peace experienced by the subject in the poem.
“Elegy for A Young American” was composed by Ronald Lo Presti shortly after the death of President John F. Kennedy. Following the traditional three part poetic form of the elegy. It guides the listener through a lament for the departed, praise and adoration for the idealized life and deeds, and consolation and solace. Texts from John Kennedy’s speeches and writtne work will accmpany the presentation.
An architectural drawing by Viktor Hartmann provided Modest Mussorgsky a somewhat tangible musical model for “The Great Gate of Kiev,” the finale of the NMC concert. Mussorgsky’s larger work, from which the “Great Gate” is taken, was later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel and given its American debut by the Boston Symphony in 1919. It is the Ravel version which has made the piece a classic.
Mr. David Parrish, well known musician and Humanities Teacher in the Traverse City Area Public Schools, will assist the NMC Concert Band in this multi media presentation. Mr. Parrish’s multi media presentations at NMC’s Life Academy programs are very popular.
Tickets are available at (231) 995-1553 or at the door.
$10.00 adults, $5.00 seniors and children, NMC students free with ID
NMC bachelor’s degree authorization focus of The Ticker feature
“The Ticker” featured an article, Tuesday, on NMC’s recent work to get the process of offering a bachelor’s degree in maritime technology started. In December, state lawmakers passed a bill that authorizes Michigan’s 28 community college to offer four-year degrees in these select areas: maritime technology, energy production, culinary and cement technology.
The Ticker offers a free daily e-newsletter featuring area news and events.
Dennos Museum Center featured in Grand Traverse Insider
The Dennos Museum Center was the focus of a recent feature in the Grand Traverse Insider about a recent visit to the museum by 51 Chinese high school students, teachers and their TCAPS chaperones.
Celebrate Valentine’s Day at the library. Go on a blind date, with a book
Students,
There is a book. It’s wrapped in brown paper and it’s waiting for you. It just might be the book of your dreams. Find out today!Stop by the library to pick out your potential biblio-soul mate. You won’t know your date’s ‘identity’ until you check it out. None of our books enjoy long walks on the beach, but we do provide tantalizing hints to help you pick your perfect match.
Waiting at the front of the library circulation desk from now until February 17th!
7 and 4 report on NMC Aviation’s unmanned aerial vehicles
Students for the Environment next meet Feb. 22
Students interested in everything from environmental nature art to law are invited to attend bimonthly meetings of Students for the Environment.
Meetings will be held every other Friday starting Feb. 8 @ 12:30 p.m. in the West Hall conference room. Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, contact Adam Morrissey, morrisad@mail.gvsu.edu.
Vagina Monologues auditions Feb. 6, 13
TRAVERSE CITY — Auditions for the 2013 production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues will be held from 7-9 p.m. Feb. 6 and 13 in the West Hall conference room on NMC’s main campus.
A script will be provided. Rehearsals for selected cast will be held Feb. 20 and 27 and March 6 and 13. The performance is set for 7 p.m. March 14 in Milliken Auditorium. The production is sponsored by NMC’s Office of Student Life.
For more information:
Emily Magner
NMC Office of Student Life
(231) 995-1118
emagner@nmc.edu
Red flag party — Monday, February 11
Monday, February 11th NMC Student Life and Residence Life will be hosting the Red Flag Party at 9:00pm in the basement of East Hall.
All NMC students are welcomed to attend and there will be food and drinks provided as well as up to $500 in door prizes distributed throughout the evening.
West Hall Winter Fest, Feb. 12
Tuesday, February 12
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Join in the fun at West Hall!
The entire building will be one big party to celebrate and show off all of the changes that have been made!
Raffles! Prizes! Food! Music!
Stop in and visit to learn more about Outreach Services, Student Life, Student Government and more!