Employee Anniversaries
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
BSUFest Feb. 21-24
Northwestern Michigan Black Student Union is a collective of young progressive activists geared towards the social, economic, and political empowerment of people of color and marginalized youth. This Black History Month, in order to prevent hate crimes on campus and commemorate the death of Malcolm X, NMC Black Student Union is holding an immersive black cultural festival on NMC campus. BSUFest is to be a black cultural campus festival bringing progressive action to campuses in order to create opportunities for minority students, especially students of color, featuring guest speakers and performances that not only dazzle the community but expose them to something new. There will be artwork inspired by Black America, and delicious food that people on campus might not otherwise have access to for free or at a low cost. We hope this event can not only lift up the local and regional communities of color, but can expose our community to a positive black cultural experience and reduce the amount of racially-based hate crimes on and off campus.
Join us across campus from Feb 21-24 and make sure to check out the LIVE MUSIC playing in the PE room every night from 9 p.m. to midnight. Performers include:
- Feb. 22: MYTH and her Dancers
- Feb. 23: Jordan Hamilton
- Feb. 24: Emilee Petersmark
Also check out our “mentor speed-dating” event where you can connect with a mentor of color in Osterlin 205 on February 23 from 4-6 p.m. See you there!
SVA Chili Cook Off Feb. 20
6th Annual NMC SVA Chili Cook Off, February 20 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Health Science Atrium.
- $1 donation for 3 samples
- $1 for a bottle of water
Come vote for your favorite chili or enter to win! Anyone can enter, see rules below.
Chili Cook Off Rules
- Chili cook-off registration forms must be submitted no later than 5 p.m. on February 15. Register by filling out & submitting the registration form, which can be obtained/submitted in the Military & Veteran Services Office, located in the Tanis Building.
- The chili entry must be in a crock-pot or electric roaster to maintain appropriate temperature.
- Chili must be brought on site the day of the cook-off (by 10 a.m.). If preferred or needed, you can drop it off earlier in the morning to the NMC Enrollment Services Office.
- Each cook must prepare a full crock pot of chili to be judged (a donation of 12-16 servings of chili is recommended). Prizes are awarded to first, second and third place.
- You do not need to be present to win
- NMC SVA members will serve your chili if you are unable to do so
- Crock pots can be picked up from the Health Science Atrium at 1:30pm or from the Enrollment Services Office later in the day.
NOTE: The SVA will provide an assigned table, electricity, testing cups, spoons and bowls for the public, ballet box, and rubber gloves. If you are serving chili, please wear a hat.
All proceeds benefit NMC student veterans!
International Affairs Forum – Feb. 21, Trashing the Planet by JD Lindeberg
JD Lindeberg, President of Resource Recycling Systems (RRS) presenting at Milliken Auditorium February 21, 2019 at 6 p.m. $15.00 tickets at the door. FREE to students! For more details visit TCIAF.COM or call 231.995.1844
Tech Tips: Alert! Spearphishing in Progress…
We have recently been the recipients of a number of Spearphishing Email attacks. We know everyone has been through the KnowBe4 training, and we appreciate everyone’s awareness of this recent attack. We wanted to send out an email with a couple of hints to keep you safe during this and future attacks.
- Most of the recent emails have had a Director (like Jerry Achenbach or Alex Bloye) ask you “Are you Available” or “would you purchase (Amazon or iTunes or other) Gift Cards…” These are Spearphishing emails, which can be sent to Spam or Phishing, trying to get you to react and click so they can start to gather your information and money. Please do not fall for this!
- Google is smart, sometimes…
Many of you have received these Spearphishing emails and, if Google is doing its job, it put a banner at the top of your email warning “be careful with this message”. - Google wants you to make sure this is a safe email. If you ever see this banner, ask yourself if the email you are viewing is real or if this is possibly phishing.
- If you have any doubt, do not click, just call the person or send them a separate email asking if this was them.
- Or, if you recognize it as phishing, you can Report Phishing right on the yellow banner. This is an example of what the Google warning banner looks like (see right).
3. In addition, please visit the Internet Safety Links in the NMC Technology Help Desk Knowledgebase under MyNMC for a curated list of links to review about Identifying/Avoiding Suspicious Emails and Gift Card scams. Also, included in the Knowledgebase page is the KnowBe4 Red Flag document. Print out the KnowBe4 Document and keep it close to your desktop, so you can use it to determine if an email is valid or not.
Thanks for being consistent in using the techniques you have learned to keep NMC safe.
Upcoming NMC Jazz Band Performances
The NMC Jazz Bands will be appearing at the West Bay Beach Holiday Inn in Traverse City in community outreach performances on Thursday, February 28, and Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m. FREE admission.
Immigration: Northern Michigan & Beyond, Friday Mar. 1
NMC’s Office of Student Life will host Immigration: Michigan & Beyond, a free, one-day conference, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, March 1 in Milliken Auditorium.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. At 9:00 a.m. Marcelo Betti, JFON Immigration Attorney, will begin the conference with Immigration 101, followed by local stories and a panel discussion featuring Marcello Betti, John King of King Orchards, Rev. Wayne Dziekan Diocese of Gaylord, and Gladys Munoz, Justice and Peace Advocacy Center. At 11:30 a.m. participants will hear from Susan Reed, managing attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. The conference concludes at 12:30 p.m. with a complimentary lunch and coffee and conversation with speakers.
The event is free, but please register by February 22. To register online, go to nmc.edu/student-life and click the Immigration: Northern Michigan & Beyond link.
Training Services February 2019 Newsletter
Read about what our Training Services team is up to including upcoming classes that you may be able to take for free using the tuition reimbursement benefit: https://mailchi.mp/nmc/nmc-training-services-february-2019-newsletter
This month’s topics include the Northern Michigan Manufacturing Summit, Trimet Industries, Inc., humans and artificial intelligence joining forces, upcoming workshops and more!
Media Mentions for February 4, 2019
The following college events and stories have appeared in the media in the past week. We want to share your media involvement too. Please send information about your NMC-related interview or appearance to publicrelations@nmc.edu. If possible, please include a link to the piece and information about where and when it was used.
(Please note access to some stories may be limited by paywalls set up by the media outlet. This includes the Traverse City Record-Eagle, which limits free clicks to five per month. You may also read Record-Eagle articles in the print edition at the Osterlin Library.
Local chefs teach community members at Festival of Foods
UpNorthLive, Feb. 3
Innovation key to growth, consultant says
Record-Eagle, Jan. 30
Festival of Foods preps for 13th edition
Record-Eagle, Jan. 26
Passport to Madagascar!
Thursday, February 21, 2019
12:15-1 p.m.
Founders Hall, room 110
The Passport Student Talk Series is a chance to explore other cultures through the experiences of NMC students.
Join Ashley Hockin, Peace Corp agriculture volunteer assigned to Madagascar from 2015-2017 and current NMC culinary student.
Ashley will share Malagasy culture, highlights and the impact of her experience as well as a taste of Malagasy food.
Tech Tips: Request Type Updates to Technology Help Desk
Hello Everyone – If you are a user of Technology Help Desk, please read on to understand some of the recent changes and additions to Request Types in the ticketing system.
- Computer Hardware (not Banner) and Computer Software (not Banner) have been re-organized so now you will have to choose a sub-type of either:
- All Instructor Classroom and Conference Room Computers (formerly under Media Resources)
- All Other Computers incl. Labs, Faculty and Staff Offices
- Media Resources Support has made changes to their sub-types to be the following:
- Audio Visual Support
- Event Set-up (media resources requirements)
- Video Recording Support
- Banner and Other Administrative Software has a new Request Type for Parchment, which is our new Online Official Transcript Ordering Service.
- All Other Administrative Software (including Campus Logic, Document Management, Elevate, My Success, R25 and StarRez) access requests now include an option to either Grant Access or Remove Access.
- Banner and Other Administrative Software has a new Security Access offering for adding rights for Campus Logic the new financial aid processor that students use to enter information and upload documents used to verify their eligibility.
- Security Access has a new offering for removing Contractors and Partners called Contractor/Partner Computing Access Removal.
- Security Access has been re-organized into alphabetical order by sub-type.
If you have any questions or requests regarding the ticketing system, please contact the Technology Help Desk at 995-3020 or visit nmc.edu/help for more ways to contact us.
Success Story: Pioneering international partnership matures
January 30, 2019
Faculty and administrators from a Chinese technical school traveled to NMC for training earlier this month, another milestone in a one-of-a-kind international partnership that is now rounding the midpoint of its first stage.
NMC and the Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute have an agreement under which NMC instructors teach construction and marine technology classes to three cohorts of Chinese students in China. The first cohort of about 50 earned their NMC degrees in spring 2018, the first time a community college had delivered a technical, applied program internationally.
The second cohort will wrap up this spring. After the third cohort completes in 2020, NMC will consider whether and how to move forward with student exchanges.
“These first three years, we’re just focusing on getting this initial delivery done, so we can build toward what it would take to have our students going there, or perhaps their students going here.” said Hans Van Sumeren, director of NMC’s Great Lakes Water Studies Institute. “This has never been done. It’s kind of like going to the moon, but we’re just orbiting the Earth a few times first.”
Key to advancing the partnership is joint professional development. On this month’s orbital pass, Yellow River instructors visited NMC’s Aero Park campus for training on marine technology and construction technology equipment.
On the marine technology side, Yellow River recently purchased the same underwater ROV that NMC owns for their campus in Kaifeng, China. NMC instructors will be able to use the ROV when they return to China in April for the fourth of six planned instructional delivery sessions.
NMC facilitated shipment of equipment within China for the previous cohort. Yellow River is also investing in sonar equipment and software. Instructors will return to Traverse City in June for additional training.
“They are really taking our support and building out a degree,” said Van Sumeren. He added that NMC’s new land surveying degree, offered beginning this fall, was informed by Yellow River. The Institute has the largest surveying program in China.
“Building an international team like this, we’re able to broaden our perspective,” Van Sumeren said. “We’re highly focused on integrating the land component into our degree to make much stronger graduates, industry-ready.”
On the construction side, the Chinese group was introduced to both hand and power tools used in basic carpentry.
“Most of their equipment all has to do with concrete,” said Dan Goodchild, Construction Technology coordinator.
Instructor Brian Sweeney will make his third trip to China this spring to teach construction courses. He says the challenge of teaching internationally has made him a better teacher at NMC.
“I go with the assumption they will not understand anything I say. Everything has to be presented visually or hands-on,” said Sweeney, who teaches in English with the support of a team of four interpreters.
That habit has translated back to his classes in Traverse City.
“I put a lot more pictures in my presentations, because that seems to be the best way to transmit information,” Sweeney said.
NMC began the partnership with Yellow River in 2012 as part of the strategic directions determined by the college Board of Trustees to prepare learners for success in a global society, establish international competencies in the area of freshwater and deliver learning through a networked workforce.
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President’s Update for January 28, 2019
Thank you all for everything you do in pursuit of “Keeping Learning at the Center.”
Notable Accomplishments provided by Faculty and Staff
This section recognizes the good work being done and linkages to the Strategic Directions (SD) and Institutional Effectiveness Criteria (IE) are provided where possible. (more…)
Welcome to NMC!
Please join us in welcoming these new additions to our NMC staff, and congratulating current NMC staff on their new positions!
Kudos!
KUDOS- (praise or respect that you get because of something you have done or achieved) defined by Merriam-Webster.com
What’s Happening with NMC Wellness?
February Wellness Presentation on Monday- February 11
Random Acts of Kindness
Research shows that random acts of kindness not only boosts your physical health but also helps you to maintain a positive outlook on life. We genuinely feel good when we give, help or contribute without expectation or reciprocation of acknowledgment.
Join Marissa as she presents on how a simple, kind gesture can reduce stress, boost our immune system and help reduce negative emotions such as anger anxiety and depression.
Monday- February 11- presentations will be about 15-20 minutes
10 a.m.- Parsons Stulen 106 (Courtyard Conference Room)
12 p.m.-University Center 211
2 p.m.-Great Lakes 101
3 p.m.-Founders Hall 110
Click here to access the 2019 Random Acts of Kindness Calendar! Challenge yourself to choose an act every week this year!
National Wear Red Day to support women’s health- Friday, February 1, 2019.
Sponsored by the American Heart Association- click here for more information.
Would you like to be added to a Wellness email distribution list? Marissa often has wellness resources she would like to share with employees, but we realize not everyone wants extra email! If you would like to be added to the list, simply email Hollie at hdewalt@nmc.edu and ask to be added.
Employee Anniversaries
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
Media Mentions for January 28, 2019
The following college events and stories have appeared in the media in the past week. We want to share your media involvement too. Please send information about your NMC-related interview or appearance to publicrelations@nmc.edu. If possible, please include a link to the piece and information about where and when it was used.
(Please note access to some stories may be limited by paywalls set up by the media outlet. This includes the Traverse City Record-Eagle, which limits free clicks to five per month. You may also read Record-Eagle articles in the print edition at the Osterlin Library.
Shutdown continues to affect local workers, organizations
Ticker, Jan. 25
NMC files for fact-finding in faculty union negotiations
Ticker, Jan. 24
NMC contract at salary impasse
Record-Eagle, Jan. 24
Hybrid Robotics bringing you the newest technology
TV 9 & 10, Jan. 22
NMC Extended Education, Festival of Foods, Small Business and Nonprofits
TV 9 & 10, Jan. 21
Rose & Fern – profiles GLCI alumna Rebecca Tranchell’s new restaurant
Northern Express, Jan. 19
Libraries, bookstores give TC a literary edge
Record-Eagle, Jan. 19
Exhibitions end with a bang, new shows to come
Record-Eagle, Jan. 18