Sep 28, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
Erase borders, develop peace and understanding and extend your family tree. Engage your family with the international community by hosting an international student or by encouraging your student to study abroad!
Join Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City Area Public Schools and local international exchange programs to explore the world of international exchange. This informational evening will include:
• Testimonials from current and former high school and college-age U.S. study abroad students
• Keynote speaker
• First-hand experiences of host families and international exchange students
• Panel discussion with students and host parents followed by a Q & A session
• Opportunities to meet families, students, and exchange organization representatives.
Thursday, October 11, 2012 Milliken Auditorium at Northwestern Michigan College’s Dennos Museum from 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
For more information contact Jim Bensley, Director of Outreach Services at (231) 995-2527 or jbensley@nmc.edu.
Sep 27, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
Native American writer Gordon Henry will be the featured presenter at a free Michigan Global Awareness Consortium event set for 6 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Oleson Center.
The performance will include traditional Anishinaabe stories and songs, as well as poetry and prose from Henry’s work. He will be joined by musicians Mike Gilmore and Mike Johnston. For some parts of the performance Henry will sing with a hand drum; for other parts he will recite his work, accompanied by Johnston and Gilmore.
Henry’s novel, The Light People, won an American Book Award in 1995, and his poetry, prose and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work is informed by long time participation in ceremonies and by his personal reflections on Anishinaabe life, place and relations. His most recent book, The Failure of Certain Charms and Other Disparate Signs of Life, published in 2007, is a collection of poetry and prose, combining the languages and imagery of dreams, songs, ceremonies, cultural memories, autobiography and Native American tales.
Gordon Henry is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. He received an MA in creative writing from Michigan State University and a PhD in English from the University of North Dakota. He is professor of English at Michigan State University. Formerly director of creative writing for MSU’s English Department, he is currently director of MSU’s Native American Institute. He is also senior editor for the Native American Studies Series.
The Michigan Global Awareness Consortium consists of Bay College, Mid Michigan Community College, North Central Michigan College and Northwestern Michigan College. The MGAC is dedicated to bringing global issues, international opportunities and information to their campuses.
Sep 26, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
If not registered to vote (or if you’re not sure!) stop by the voter registration and information table in the Osterlin Library lobby.
Volunteers from around campus and the League of Women Voters will be there every weekday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. from now until the voter registration deadline on Oct. 9.
There will also be a registration and information table in the atrium of the Great Lakes Campus from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 3.
If you are a new voter who registered by mail, you may not be eligible to vote absentee. Come find out.
Make sure your vote counts this November!
For more information, call the Osterlin Library reference desk at (231) 995-1540.
Sep 26, 2012 | Student News
Donate a can/nonperishable item and receive a 20% off coupon for one logo item/clothing at the NMC Bookstore on Thursday, Oct. 4, National Students Day, a day celebrating student community service and social responsibility.
The coupon is good through the month of October. Your donation enters you in a drawing for an NMC hoodie.
While you’re there, pick up a handout on the many benefits of volunteering including boosting your resume! Collected food will be donated to the Father Fred Foundation.
Sep 25, 2012 | Student News
Planning to transfer this spring or next year? Start talking to other Michigan colleges and universities now by attending the NMC Transfer Fair. Each semester over 35 colleges/universities are here to answer common questions such as available transfer scholarships, GPA requirements and programs across Michigan. Check out the list of participating colleges/universities.
NMC Transfer Fair
Tuesday, October 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Welcome Center, Health and Science Building and Lobby, West Hall
Sep 24, 2012 | Student News
Check out the Osterlin Library lobby on Tuesday, September 25 for National Voter Registration Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Students can get assistance in…
- finding out where they’re registered
- starting the registration process (and how to finish it, if they’re not registered)
- where they need to vote
- what to bring to the polls
Sep 20, 2012 | Student News
Join the Muster Project for a sail on
Madeline, September 26 at 5:30 p.m. There is a 20 person limit. For more information and to RSVP go to
www.facebook.com/groups/musterproject or stop by the Student Life Office
Sep 20, 2012 | Student News
Muster in the Museum Pizza Party
Join us for FREE pizza at a Muster in the Museum Party, brought to you by the Muster Project. Parties will be held October 3 at noon and October 16 at 4 p.m. at the Dennos Museum Center.
Sep 20, 2012 | Student News
Dennos Museum Concert Season
Hanggai, September 29, 2012, 8 pm, Milliken Auditorium
Hanggai is one of the outstanding international touring bands from China. This group is a Beijing-based group of musicians who left the city’s punk rock clubs to rediscover their roots in inner Mongolia. They now perform Mongolian folk music with traditional and Western instruments and still can be heard in those Beijing clubs playing this music for enthusiastic young audiences.
NMC students can receive one free ticket for this exciting event. Students can reserve their free ticket in the Student Life Office, Dennos Museum front desk, or the Dennos Box Office.
Each student may order one additional ticket at half-price (standard tickets are $25). Please contact the Dennos Box office with further questions. All pre-ordered tickets must be picked up by 7:30 pm on the evening of the concert.
Dennos Box Office will open on September 19, 2012. Box Office hours are Wednesday – Saturday, 3 – 5 pm and one hour prior to the concert.
Sep 20, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
The NMC Engineering Club will be having its monthly bake sale “We know Pi” on the 25th and 26th of September in the lobby of the Health & Science Building from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Cookies and blueberry muffins will be available in the morning and cupcakes in the afternoon.
Sep 20, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
Emily Magner worked tirelessly this summer coordinating orientation for new students. Her welcoming and supportive attitude with incoming students puts them at ease, and I observed her doing this time and time again for countless students.
At opening conference Tim Nelson told about Emily taking care of a perspective student’s dog and watching his 11-year old son so that he could attend orientation. This gesture allowed this student to register for classes and begin his educational journey here at NMC. Emily is passionate about new students getting their needs met when first arriving on campus, and she works hard to instill those values in her student workers, and I know it spills over to others who are assisting our students.
I also saw Emily work very hard over the summer planning Pine Palooza, and want to thank her for such a successful and professional event that benefited our students and makes us all proud of our college and its resources.
Sep 14, 2012 | Student News
Tuesday, October 9th
10:00am-2:00 p.m.
Welcome Center, Health and Science Building and Lobby, West Hall
Planning to transfer this spring or next year? Start talking to Michigan colleges and universities now by attending the NMC Transfer Fair. Each semester over 35 colleges/universities are here to answer common questions such as available transfer scholarships, GPA requirements and programs across Michigan. Check out the list of participating colleges/universities here.
Sep 14, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
NMC students, faculty and staff are invited to a new brown bag student lecture series called “Passports.”
It is a chance to experience other cultures by hearing about the experiences of NMC students who have lived it.
The first in the Passports series will be held Thursday, September 27 from noon to 1 p.m. in Founders Hall 110.
Hear students talk about their experiences on their recent study abroad trip to Russia.
The Brown Bag Student Lecture Series is sponsored by the office of Outreach Services.
Sep 14, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
Student Health Services is offering walk-in flu clinics. No appointment is necessary.
All clinics are held in Student Health Services, Biederman Building 106.
Monday, September 17, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Tuesday, September 25, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Thursday, October 4, noon – 2 p.m.
Wednesday, October 10, 10 a.m. – noon
Cost is $15 for students, $20 for NMC Faculty and Staff. Staff covered by Priority Health should bring their insurance cards.
Call (231) 995-1255 with questions.
NOTE! All flu clinics subject to change per current CDC and/or GT Co. Health Dept. health recommendations and vaccine availability.
Sep 12, 2012 | Student News
Congratulations to Emily Bronkema, the winner of the NMC Bookstore drawing for the black hoodie at Pine Palooza.
Hope everyone had fun!
— NMC Bookstore
Sep 12, 2012 | Student News
NMC Alternative Spring Break will be having an informational meeting about joining Alternative Spring Break, interviewing for the trip, and how to get involved on September 13 at 3 p.m. in Beckett Building Room 147.
Applications can also be found at http://www.unitedwaynwmi.org/
Sep 11, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
Just a reminder, parking patrol will begin Monday, September 17, 2012. Please make sure you have your NMC parking permit. Your parking permit must be placed in the lower left corner on thedriver’s side front window. Please discard expired decals.
Permits are available in Admissions, Records/Registration and Student Financial Services, the Welcome Desk, the Parsons-Stulen building (front desk) and the Human Resources office at the University Center. Apartment resident decals are available in the West Hall Auxiliaries Office.
All students, faculty, and staff of Northwestern Michigan College are required to have and display a valid parking permit if they park in the college lots on main campus during the fall and spring semesters. All academic students and NMC faculty and staff are eligible to receive one parking decal at no cost. Additional and replacement decals are available at a cost of $10.00 per decal.
Sep 11, 2012 | Intercom, Student News
Yale professor Dr. Ellen Lust will present “The Arab People Are Speaking—But What Are They Really Saying?” Sept. 20, the first lecture in the 2012-13 International Affairs Forum lecture series at Milliken Auditorium.
A first-hand observer of the ongoing upheaval in the Muslim world, Lust will decipher how the explosion of political opposition in Libya, Syria, Egypt and Yemen signals a sea change in the Middle East. The issue is whether the U.S. can connect with the new Arab “street” without jeopardizing longstanding ties to entrenched but powerful regimes.
The eight-part IAF series brings diplomats, policy makers, journalists and others from all over the globe to Milliken Auditorium. All programs begin with a reception in the Sculpture Court of the Dennos Museum Center at 5:15 p.m. and are followed at 6 p.m. by the lecture and a discussion period in Milliken Auditorium.
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.
