If you would like to receive your 1095-C (Affordable Care Act Reporting Document) electronically, please elect to do so through Self-Service. Go to Personal Information and then Employee Information. If you elected electronic delivery last year, you do not need to take any action.
We are halfway through the fiscal year. How is your progress going on goal completion? Here are some suggestions on how to keep your MyPDCA and individual work-related goals on track:
Click here to login to SilkRoad Performance to set and manage your individual goals.
For questions or assistance, contact: Lori Hodek at lhodek@nmc.edu 995-1143
Below is an article with suggestions on how to keep your individual goals on track this year:
http://www.wikihow.com/Effectively-Track-and-Accomplish-Your-Goals
Access the following systems from this new page:
Click here for instructions on how to access the new portal.(*Note: You will have three initial screens to review before accessing the portal. This is a one-time task.)
KUDOS- (praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved) defined by Merriam-Webster.com
Submit a Kudos here.
Kudos to Cheryl Sullivan, Chris Ruszel, Mark West and Peggy Shinn- For extraordinary efforts to ensure timely payroll processing of special payments in order to enhance the morale and motivation of NMC Faculty and Staff.
Kudos to Bryce Turner and the Systems and LAN Management team for the implementation of the workspace file manager system. It is SOOOOOOO much easier to access materials remotely — without having to download and upload files. (especially when you just need one piece of info) It also works so much better across mobile platforms!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find them here! jobs.nmc.edu. Current openings include:
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
So many great stories happen at NMC that we made a new magazine to share them all. Watch for Nexus, a 32-page magazine, to arrive in your mailbox in the next few days.
The new magazine, which will be published twice a year by the Public Relations, Marketing & Communications department, takes the place of the eight-page NorWester, retaining the best elements of the NorWester while allowing longer, more in-depth features and profiles.
Got a story idea for Nexus, our NMC Now e-newsletter or other college publication? Email them to us at publicrelations@nmc.edu.
Welcome to the new semester! Our eager students are back and may be looking to drop and add classes during this first week. Please remind students that not all classes can be added after they have begun. Refer students to the Advising Center or the Records & Registration Office for assistance with dropping or adding classes this week. The final day to drop regular 15-week classes without academic record and for 100% refund is Monday, January 23.
TRAVERSE CITY — Employers are invited to register for NMC’s annual Career Fair, set for 4–5:30 p.m. March 2 at the Hagerty Center on NMC’s Great Lakes Campus.
This event affords employers the opportunity to recruit job-seekers for career-track positions, seasonal and entry-level opportunities, as well as internships and service learning. The Career Fair is open to students, NMC alumni and community members. New this year is an alumni reception following the event.
Wendy Walter, Human Development Manager at Oryana Natural Foods Market, has recruited at the fair for four years in a row.
“I know many employers, including Oryana, who have hired applicants that they first met at the Career Fair,” she said. “It’s a chance to meet others, learn about opportunities and industries, and determine your next steps.”
Employer registration is first-come, first serve and begins January 20. To register and for the most up to date information, visit nmc.edu/career-fair.
NMC’s Alumni Relations program will host a professional networking reception for NMC alumni (former students who have taken for-credit classes) Thursday, March 2. Current students also welcome.
The reception is 5:30–7 p.m. at Lobdell’s Teaching Restaurant, Great Lakes campus, and will include:
Recommended dress is business casual. You need not be a career fair attendee to attend the networking reception.
RSVP at (231) 995-2825 or alumni@nmc.edu.
Other career fairs are also scheduled later in the spring:
Irina Grougan
NMC Advising Center
igrougan@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1040
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Seeking to best serve students, NMC faculty in two different departments brought half-full attitudes to problems that threatened student learning – and in the process, filled the metaphorical glasses to the brim.
Beginning this semester, nursing students and Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadets will both receive important training more conveniently than in the past. Nursing students will receive training in electronic health records on campus instead of at Munson Medical Center. GLMA cadets will receive firefighting training required for licensure in Traverse City instead of Toledo, Ohio.
Nursing instructor Gwen Tafelsky (above photo, center) worked with Munson to bring their staff to campus after discovering limited computer classrooms at the hospital made it difficult to continue to offer PowerChart electronic health records training there.
“We needed to look elsewhere to meet the needs for NMC,” said Deb Gray, RN, (above photo, at right) one of two Munson clinical EHR educators who will now come to campus to teach first-semester nursing students enrolled in the Informatics Essentials course.
Maritime cadets, meanwhile, were faced with traveling as far as Florida or New York for firefighting training after the U.S. Maritime Administration announced last year that it planned to close its Fire Training Academy in Toledo, Ohio. Instructor and Captain John Biolchini (at right in gray cap, with maritime cadets) worked with Tim Wrede, training coordinator at Traverse City’s Northwest Regional Fire Training Center, to create a local course that would fulfill U.S. Coast Guard requirements.
“The two of them worked closely together and submitted a curriculum,” to the tune of 249 pages, said Jerry Achenbach, GLMA superintendent. The Coast Guard approved the curriculum with no edits or changes effective Jan. 1. Achenbach expects the 40-hour course to be offered for the first time in March and three times annually, saving cadets travel and hotel costs.
Stephen Siciliano, vice president for academic affairs, praised both outcomes as exemplifying the dedication NMC faculty and staff show toward students.
“Together they found solutions that not only solved the immediate problems facing our students but creatively established solutions that provide a much better future for our learners,” he said.
Both solutions offer benefits beyond convenience. The EHR instruction strengthens existing NMC connections to the region’s largest health care employer. Nursing students near the end of their education already do clinicals at Munson.
“It’s great when we have that collaboration right from the beginning,” said Tafelsky, herself a former staff nurse at Munson.
Similarly, Kristi Noble, RN, another Munson educator who will teach on campus with Gray, is a former NMC adjunct instructor. She said the collaboration is an opportunity for students to make immediate positive impressions on their potential future employer.
“View this next two years as a giant job interview,” said Noble (top photo, left).
In the Maritime case, the firefighting training is expected to attract other sailors, meaning more tuition revenue coming into Traverse City.
“We’re hoping to sell this to the maritime industry,” said Wrede. “The service that we can provide and our customer base, we’re perfectly located.”
He added the Coast Guard has recently begun requiring that firefighting training certification be renewed every five years, which could present additional opportunities to the Training Center.
Furthermore, MARAD plans to donate some of the Toledo facility’s equipment to the regional center.
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Seeking to best serve students, NMC faculty in two different departments brought half-full attitudes to problems that threatened student learning – and in the process, filled the metaphorical glasses to the brim.
Beginning this semester, nursing students and Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadets will both receive important training more conveniently than in the past. Nursing students will receive training in electronic health records on campus instead of at Munson Medical Center. GLMA cadets will receive firefighting training required for licensure in Traverse City instead of Toledo, Ohio.
Nursing instructor Gwen Tafelsky (above photo, center) worked with Munson to bring their staff to campus after discovering limited computer classrooms at the hospital made it difficult to continue to offer PowerChart electronic health records training there.
“We needed to look elsewhere to meet the needs for NMC,” said Deb Gray, RN, (above photo, at right) one of two Munson clinical EHR educators who will now come to campus to teach first-semester nursing students enrolled in the Informatics Essentials course.
Maritime cadets, meanwhile, were faced with traveling as far as Florida or New York for firefighting training after the U.S. Maritime Administration announced last year that it planned to close its Fire Training Academy in Toledo, Ohio. Instructor and Captain John Biolchini (at right in gray cap, with maritime cadets) worked with Tim Wrede, training coordinator at Traverse City’s Northwest Regional Fire Training Center, to create a local course that would fulfill U.S. Coast Guard requirements.
“The two of them worked closely together and submitted a curriculum,” to the tune of 249 pages, said Jerry Achenbach, GLMA superintendent. The Coast Guard approved the curriculum with no edits or changes effective Jan. 1. Achenbach expects the 40-hour course to be offered for the first time in March and three times annually, saving cadets travel and hotel costs.
Stephen Siciliano, vice president for academic affairs, praised both outcomes as exemplifying the dedication NMC faculty and staff show toward students.
“Together they found solutions that not only solved the immediate problems facing our students but creatively established solutions that provide a much better future for our learners,” he said.
Both solutions offer benefits beyond convenience. The EHR instruction strengthens existing NMC connections to the region’s largest health care employer. Nursing students near the end of their education already do clinicals at Munson.
“It’s great when we have that collaboration right from the beginning,” said Tafelsky, herself a former staff nurse at Munson.
Similarly, Kristi Noble, RN, another Munson educator who will teach on campus with Gray, is a former NMC adjunct instructor. She said the collaboration is an opportunity for students to make immediate positive impressions on their potential future employer.
“View this next two years as a giant job interview,” said Noble (top photo, left).
In the Maritime case, the firefighting training is expected to attract other sailors, meaning more tuition revenue coming into Traverse City.
“We’re hoping to sell this to the maritime industry,” said Wrede. “The service that we can provide and our customer base, we’re perfectly located.”
He added the Coast Guard has recently begun requiring that firefighting training certification be renewed every five years, which could present additional opportunities to the Training Center.
Furthermore, MARAD plans to donate some of the Toledo facility’s equipment to the regional center.
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Seeking to best serve students, NMC faculty in two different departments brought half-full attitudes to problems that threatened student learning – and in the process, filled the metaphorical glasses to the brim.
Beginning this semester, nursing students and Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadets will both receive important training more conveniently than in the past. Nursing students will receive training in electronic health records on campus instead of at Munson Medical Center. GLMA cadets will receive firefighting training required for licensure in Traverse City instead of Toledo, Ohio.
Nursing instructor Gwen Tafelsky (above photo, center) worked with Munson to bring their staff to campus after discovering limited computer classrooms at the hospital made it difficult to continue to offer PowerChart electronic health records training there.
“We needed to look elsewhere to meet the needs for NMC,” said Deb Gray, RN, (above photo, at right) one of two Munson clinical EHR educators who will now come to campus to teach first-semester nursing students enrolled in the Informatics Essentials course.
Maritime cadets, meanwhile, were faced with traveling as far as Florida or New York for firefighting training after the U.S. Maritime Administration announced last year that it planned to close its Fire Training Academy in Toledo, Ohio. Instructor and Captain John Biolchini (at right in gray cap, with maritime cadets) worked with Tim Wrede, training coordinator at Traverse City’s Northwest Regional Fire Training Center, to create a local course that would fulfill U.S. Coast Guard requirements.
“The two of them worked closely together and submitted a curriculum,” to the tune of 249 pages, said Jerry Achenbach, GLMA superintendent. The Coast Guard approved the curriculum with no edits or changes effective Jan. 1. Achenbach expects the 40-hour course to be offered for the first time in March and three times annually, saving cadets travel and hotel costs.
Stephen Siciliano, vice president for academic affairs, praised both outcomes as exemplifying the dedication NMC faculty and staff show toward students.
“Together they found solutions that not only solved the immediate problems facing our students but creatively established solutions that provide a much better future for our learners,” he said.
Both solutions offer benefits beyond convenience. The EHR instruction strengthens existing NMC connections to the region’s largest health care employer. Nursing students near the end of their education already do clinicals at Munson.
“It’s great when we have that collaboration right from the beginning,” said Tafelsky, herself a former staff nurse at Munson.
Similarly, Kristi Noble, RN, another Munson educator who will teach on campus with Gray, is a former NMC adjunct instructor. She said the collaboration is an opportunity for students to make immediate positive impressions on their potential future employer.
“View this next two years as a giant job interview,” said Noble (top photo, left).
In the Maritime case, the firefighting training is expected to attract other sailors, meaning more tuition revenue coming into Traverse City.
“We’re hoping to sell this to the maritime industry,” said Wrede. “The service that we can provide and our customer base, we’re perfectly located.”
He added the Coast Guard has recently begun requiring that firefighting training certification be renewed every five years, which could present additional opportunities to the Training Center.
Furthermore, MARAD plans to donate some of the Toledo facility’s equipment to the regional center.
TRAVERSE CITY — A 2011 Northwestern Michigan College aviation alumnus has been named the youngest chief pilot in company history by Envoy Air and now leads the airline’s operations at a major air traffic hub.
In late December Ryan Ferris, 26, was named chief pilot of Envoy’s New York base at LaGuardia Airport, the nation’s twentieth busiest airport. He will supervise the 150 Envoy captains and first officers based at LaGuardia as well as coordinate with multiple other departments, including ground handling, passenger service, Transportation Security Administration and air traffic control to ensure a safe and reliable operation for the passengers.
Alex Bloye, director of NMC’s Aviation division, said Ferris’ accomplishment at his age is significant. In addition to becoming Envoy’s youngest chief pilot, he is one of the few to ascend to that role without first being a captain.
“Usually chief pilot positions with airlines are reserved for folks with decades of experience. They are the base leader, and are ultimately responsible for the safety and regulatory compliance of thousands of passenger flights, and hundreds of pilots and crew members,” Bloye said.
Prior to his new role, Ferris spent three years flying as a first officer for Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American Airlines. He was also a flight instructor at NMC for two and a half years.
“Northwestern Michigan College did an outstanding job preparing me for the responsibilities of this position,” said Ferris, originally from Portage, Mich. “The flight school provided me with the knowledge and skills to handle the stresses of being an airline pilot, while NMC’s critical-thinking based curriculum helped me develop into a well-rounded manager.”
Envoy Air Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Airlines Group and operates nearly 180 aircraft on about 900 daily flights to more than 150 destinations. Headquartered in Texas, Envoy was formerly known as American Eagle.
As American Eagle, NMC in 2014 signed a pipeline agreement with the company that gives aviation students early access to interviews, employment and a signing bonus.
Ryan Ferris
Envoy Air
ryan.ferris@aa.com
(269) 598-4615
Alex Bloye
NMC Aviation
abloye@nmc.edu
(231) 995-2929
To: Campus Community
From: Timothy J. Nelson, President
Date: January 5, 2017
Subject: 21st Century Learning Space
Good morning and welcome to the New Year! I’m excited to share with you the progress and preliminary process by which we together will design and build 21st century learning spaces in the renovation and remodeling of West Hall. I invite all of you to share in this once in a lifetime opportunity for NMC, our learners and community. (more…)
The Traverse City Parking Patrol will begin enforcing parking at NMC on Monday, January 23. All faculty, staff and students must have their 2016-2017 permits displayed by that date.
The Traverse City Police Department has provided the following information on how to avoid parking tickets on campus by properly displaying your parking permit:
If you do get a ticket, payment can be made at the red dropoff payment box at the east end of the Cedar lot in front of the Health & Science building. You can also mail the fine in to the city, or pay at the parking services office in the public parking garage at 303 E. State St. Payment information is also on each ticket.
If you have any questions about parking enforcement on campus, please call (231) 995-1111.
KUDOS- (praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved) defined by Merriam-Webster.com
Submit a Kudos here.
Kudos to Kari Kahler – Kari has done so much for our Phi Theta Kappa chapter this year! We started working on our Honors in Action plan over the summer, and Kari was very helpful with getting the ball rolling. We were able to accomplish a very amazing event for the Discussion of Pipeline 5 and a showing of the movie Great Lakes, Bad Lines. There was a good turnout, and all of Kari’s help and hard work over the semester truly helped our event shine! Thank you Kari for being so helpful; you’re an amazing advisor for our group!
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find them here! jobs.nmc.edu. Current openings include:
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!