To Irina Grougan, Shannon Owen and the Advising Center Team for their huge success in the 6th Annual Career Fair! Kudos Irina Grougan and Shannon Owen for taking on the leadership of this large scale event. They did a tremendous job and received rave reviews from both employers and job seekers. The Career Fair drew 87 employers and approximately 300 attendees.
The following is a calendar of Northwestern Michigan College events open to the public. Free events are noted as such and are also tweeted at http://twitter.com/NMCfree. For information on specific events, call the listed phone number. Detailed news releases on most events will be available online at www.nmc.edu by clicking on “news and events” approximately two weeks before the event.
ONGOING:
Free campus tours depart from the Welcome Center in the Health & Science Building every Friday at 11 a.m. 995-1054
Dennos Museum Center exhibitions:
December 4, 2011 – April 1, 2012
Erig Daigh: Happiness is a Target
January 15 – April 1, 2012
Northwest Michigan Regional: A Juried Exhibition of Michigan Fine Art
March 11 – 18, 2012
We Don’t Want Them
April 15 – June 10, 2012
Benjamin Busch: The Art in War
Harvey Gordon: Paintings
Visit www.dennosmuseum.org for more Dennos Museum Center information.
MARCH
Friday, March 16 “Challenge Bullying: Create a Safe Community” one-day conference,
9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Hagerty Center, Great Lakes Campus. Free admission. To register, call 922-4800.
Friday, March 16 Taste of France Reception and Fundraiser, 6 p.m., Lobdell’s Restaurant, Great Lakes Campus. Reservation required. 995-3120
Saturday, March 17 Tab Benoit concert, 8 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. 995-1553
Monday, March 19 NMC Board of Trustees meeting, 6:30 p.m., Oleson Center. 995-1010
Wednesday, March 21 Blood Drive, 12-6 p.m., West Hall Conference Room.
Wednesday, March 21 Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds lecture series, “Introduction to Pilates and Yoga,” 3-4 p.m., Health/Science Welcome Center upper level. Free; everyone welcome.
Thursday, March 22 British Isles Dinner, 6 p.m., Lobdell’s Restaurant, Great Lakes Campus. Reservation required. 995-3120
Saturday, March 24 Honky Tonk Angels concert, 8 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. 995-1553
APRIL
Tuesday, April 3 Michigan Global Awareness Consortium presentation by David Hill, “The Blessing – A Norwegian Odyssey,” 7 p.m., Oleson Center. Free admission. 995-1155
Thursday, April 5 WCMU Community Cinema, Hell and Back Again, 7 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. Free admission.
Friday, April 6 Public Viewing Night, 9-11 p.m, $2/person; $5/family, Rogers Observatory, 995-2300
Tuesday, April 10 Michigan Global Awareness Consortium presentation by Susan Sharp, “The Snowman Trek,” 7 p.m., Oleson Center. Free admission. 995-1155
Wednesday, April 11 Blood Drive, 12-6 p.m., West Hall Conference Room.
Friday, April 13 Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre concert, 8 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. 995-1553
Saturday, April 14 Great Lakes Maritime Academy spring open house aboard the training ship, State of Michigan, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 995-1202
Tuesday, April 17 NMC Percussion Ensemble, 7 p.m., Milliken Auditorium.
Thursday, April 19 International Affairs Forum lecture by Ambassador Feisal al-Istrabadi,“Creating a Better Iraq: Restoring the Rule of Law,” 6 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. Free admission for current students and educators; others $10. 995-1700
Friday, April 20 NMC Jazz Ensembles concert, 8 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. 995-1700
Sunday, April 22 NMC Grand Traverse Chorale and NMC Chamber Singers perform, “The Titanic Requiem,” 3 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for adults, and $5 for seniors/students. 995-1338
Monday, April 23 NMC Board of Trustees meeting, 5:30 p.m., Oleson Center. 995-1010
Friday, April 27 Life Luncheon “Conversations with Father Fred”, noon-1:30 p.m., Oleson Center, $16, 995-1700
Friday, April 27 Nagata Shachu concert, 8 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. 995-1553
Saturday, April 28 NMC Children’s Choir concert, 4 p.m., Interlochen’s Corson Auditorium, Tickets available at the door, $10 for adults, and $5 for seniors/students. 995-1338
Saturday, April 28 NMC Concert Band, 8 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. 995-1700
Saturday, April 28 Public Viewing Night, 9-11 p.m, $2/person; $5/family, Rogers Observatory, 995-2300
Monday, April 30 The Vagina Monologues, 7 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. $10 adults; $5 NMC students w/student ID. Mature audiences only. For ticket information, call 995-1118.
Saturday, April 28 Public Viewing Night, 9-11 p.m, $2/person; $5/family, Rogers Observatory. 995-2300
Monday, April 30 The Vagina Monologues, 7 p.m., Milliken Auditorium. $10 adults; $5 NMC students w/student ID. Mature audiences only. For ticket information, call 995-1118.
Intercom is published by NMC Public Relations & Marketing. NMC news and information may be submitted via e-mail by noon Thursday to be included in the Friday e-mail notice. Send news to Martha Griggs, Editor: mgriggs@nmc.edu.
Throughout the week, you can read the Intercom and find the latest news and updates online as part of the NMC Communiqué at www.nmc.edu/intercom.
As you’r
e going through your closet and switching your wardrobe to spring attire, you may come across items that no longer fit, or you’re simply ready for a change.
Remember to donate your unwanted professional clothing to the Dress for Success event, a class project of NMC Business 231. Donations are being accepted at two main campus locations through March 23:
For more information, call 995-1059.
Each year, the NMC Foundation makes up to $50,000 available to support innovative ideas developed by NMC students, faculty, or staff.
We have defined innovation as a change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of new inventions or discoveries. It may refer to an incremental emergent change in thinking, products, or processes at NMC.
If you have an innovative idea you’d like to develop, please visit: www.nmc.edu/about/foundation/grants/index.html to learn more and consider applying for a grant.
Why do NMC Instructors like Moodle 2 4U ?
“I find the downloading of files and pictures to be so much easier in Moodle 2. The students have been able to follow the course with no issues and no confusion.”
-Andrea Gerring, speaking about her experience teaching ART 112 fully online in Moodle 2.
Moodle 2 4U Training & Demos Starting April 5; details coming soon.
Susan Odgers’ article, Service dogs become members of the family,
appeared in the Record-Eagle on Saturday, March 10, 2012.
Congratulations to Forest Wortman who is the first winner of a Best Buy gift card ($150 value) for having completed the NMC Employee Engagement Survey. He is an adjunct instructor in the Aviation program.
Thank you to the 306 employees who have completed the survey thus far. If you have not yet taken the survey, please do so by Monday, March 19, in order to be included in our second gift card drawing valued at $75.
If you have questions or concerns about the survey, please contact Karen Ruedinger in the Office of Research, Planning and Effectiveness at 5-1032 or kruedinger@nmc.edu.
The MLA Board of Directors appointed Stephanie D. Davis, Library Instruction Coordinator, Northwestern Michigan College, to serve as ACRL Representative for a one-year term from June 1, 2012 – May 31, 2013, at their February 10, 2012 meeting. Scott Garrison, Associate Dean for Public Services and Technology, Western Michigan University will serve as Chapter Representative-Elect for a two-year term from June 1, 2012 – May 31, 2014.
Stephanie’s work experience, education and involvement in MLA qualify her to serve as the ACRL chapter representative. As a seasoned academic librarian, she understands the need for MLA’s affiliation with ACRL as a means of strengthening the services MLA provides its membership. ACRL represents the interests of the academic library community nationally and a strong connection between MLA and ACRL offers the most effective means for helping academic librarians stay up-to-date on national issues. She is ready to fulfill the obligation to serve as a bridge between MLA and ACRL to improve communication, providing membership with information about relevant national issues as well as opportunities for service and participation in ACRL. Keeping ACRL informed about the activities and needs of MLA’s academic community would be an essential function of this role as well.
She also understands the requirements for membership in both organizations and the need for attendance at the ALA Midwinter and Annual meetings. She is knowledgeable of both MLA and ARCL and can successfully complete the duties of writing meeting reports and presenting information from the ACRL meetings to the MLA membership and board. She is of aware of the need to advocate for MLA at ACRL and to act as ambassador between the two groups on behalf of MLA’s academic membership. She is comfortable and experienced with the liaison role and welcomes the chance to serve MLA’s academic membership, bolstering the role of MLA in the academic library community.
Remember to set your clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time that begins at 2am this Sunday, March 11.
Saturd
ay, March 17, 2012 8:00 PM
Born and raised on the Louisiana bayou, this self-proclaimed “new kid from the old school” has been the standard bearer for a new generation of Cajun blues musicians – a traditionalist and an innovator at the same time, grafting elements of rock and soul to the indigenous sounds of the bayou.
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.
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 online at www.dennosmuseum.org.
The Dennos is proud to host a free screening of the documentary “Banished: American Ethnic Cleansing” on March 18, 2012 at 2:00pm in conjunction with the exhibition We Don’t Want Them.
A hundred years ago, in communities across the U.S., white residents forced thousands of black families to flee their homes. Even a century later, these towns remain almost entirely white. Banished tells the story of three of these communities and their black descendants, who return to learn their shocking histories.
For more information on the Museum and exhibition, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055.
The Dennos Museum Center, in collaboration with the Traverse Area District Library and Interlochen Center for the Arts has been selected to serve as a community host for the Great Michigan Read traveling exhibit, We Don’t Want Them, during the month of March. We Don’t Want Them will be on exhibit at the Dennos Museum Center March 11-18, 2012.
Focusing on race and housing in metropolitan Detroit, We Don’t Want Them examines the realities African Americans faced from 1900 to the present. A prominent feature of the exhibit is the Ossian Sweet trials which is documented in this year’s Great Michigan Read selection, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age” by Kevin Boyle. “Arc of Justice” is the true story of Dr. Ossian Sweet, an African American physician, and the events that followed after he purchased a home in an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. Through reproductions of historic documents and photographs, viewers of We Don’t Want Them will learn about the causes and effects of residential segregation.
More information available here >>
From February 29–March 31, Northwestern Michigan College is conducting an online survey about what you watch on TV, what you listen to on the radio, what you read in print or online, and the ways you prefer to be contacted with new information. The survey instructions say that it takes 15-20 minutes to complete, but smart people like you will probably finish it in 10 minutes or so. Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a drawing to win a $150 Amazon.com gift card. Not bad for 10 minutes of work, right?
So what is NMC going to do with the information?
Well, we’re not going to share it with other colleges or businesses or anybody else. So you don’t have to worry about filling out this survey and getting a bunch of junk mail or e-mails because of it. What we are going to use it for is to do a better job of reaching people like you. It will help us learn more about what you watch and where you hang out and if you’d rather receive e-mails or texts or stuff in the mail.
How many times can I take the survey?
You can take it as many times as you want, but the survey’s pretty smart, so no matter how many times you take it, you’re only going to be entered to win the gift card once.
What if part of the survey doesn’t apply to me?
You don’t have to answer every question, but you do have to make it to the end of the survey to be entered to win. So if there is a question that doesn’t apply to you, you can just move on to the next one.
Where do I go to take the survey?
Just follow this link and use michigan as the password. It’s just that easy.
So thanks in advance for taking the survey, and good luck on winning the gift card!
In case you missed it: MyNorth.com did a feature on Dick Flowers, a tree-climbing instructor here at NMC.
“The Future of Turkey” is the topic of the next International Affairs Forum lecture, set for 6 p.m. March 15 in Milliken Auditorium.
Speaker Dr. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, a native of Turkey, is a cultural anthropologist who has recently completed postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan. She is the director and co-producer of the film, Coffee Futures. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology with a designated emphasis in film studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently completing a manuscript, Image Brokers, on the production, distribution, and circulation of international news images.
She will address what it means to be Turkish today, Turkey’s role in the Middle East, and whether secularism is losing out to Islamists in Turkey.
The program begins with a reception in the Sculpture Court of the Dennos Museum Center at 5:15 p.m. and is followed at 6 p.m. by the lecture and a discussion period in Milliken Auditorium.
See the complete 2011-12 speaker schedule »
Individual lecture ticket are $10. All current educators and students are admitted free. For tickets or more or information, call NMC Extended Educational Services at 231-995-1700.
To Pam Palermo who worked closely with the Maritime Academy to improve cadet access to available maritime scholarships by creating a new scholarship page on the Financial Aid website. This site has been linked to our Cadet Intranet and may be accessed by all cadets–even those at sea. Her collaborative efforts have made the process of applying for scholarships easier to understand and will have a positive effect on our group of learners.
NM faculty and staff – you are invited to the 1st Annual NMC Faculty/Staff Coffee House next Friday, March 16 from 1-3pm in Fine Arts Rm 115. Enjoy beverages from the complimentary Coffee Bar while listening to music provided by NMC faculty.
Come join us for an afternoon of music in a relaxed environment, and an opportunity to connect with your NMC colleagues.
Hope to see you there!
Beef up your skills with half-day classes in March and May on the most popular Excel topics: formatting worksheets, charts, graphics, sorting, filters, pivot tables, macros, tips & tricks, and list management. Employee tuition waivers apply. Call Extended Education at 995-1700 to register. Read course descriptions here »