TRAVERSE CITY — The public is invited to an open house in the Parsons-Stulen building to celebrate the 50th anniversary of aviation at NMC. Check in at the welcome table for tours. There will be staff on hand for tours and information, and refreshments in room 101.
NMC welding students Andrew DuBois and Michael StolarczykSome NMC welding students are getting a dose of American history on top of this semester’s classes.
They’re helping to restore Civil War markers placed on the graves of Union Army veterans in northern Michigan cemeteries. Thanks to an instructor’s idea, the extracurricular project is increasing their skills and their citizenship, one cast iron star at a time.
Adjunct electrical instructor Jeff Morse is a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, a national group that works to honor the memory of the soldiers killed between 1861-65. A feature of the Union graves the group charges itself with maintaining is a cast iron star flagholder, inserted into the ground with double spikes.
A Civil War marker repaired by NMC welding students“Over the years they became no match to power lawn mowers and brutal northern Michigan winters. Many markers became rusty and either one or both of the spikes had been broken off,” Morse said.
He mentioned it to welding instructor Devan DePauw, who agreed to take on repair as an extracurricular project with student volunteers. Students cut off the double legs, grind and prepare the stars for welding, and then weld one spike in a new, center position.
It’s an opportunity to learn new techniques from the typical steel-to-steel welding they do in class.
“Cast iron is notoriously difficult to weld,” DePauw said. Students are learning a “brazing” technique that uses a bronze filler to weld the spike back on.
It’s also an opportunity to apply their knowledge for a greater good.
“I like doing stuff that matters. This epitomizes that,” said Michael Stolarczyk, 18, of Traverse City.
“I just think it’s a good cause,” said Andrew DuBois, 28, of Flint.
Group member Scott Schwander, who has been cleaning the headstones as well, returns the repaired star flagholders to the graves. He started with Oakwood Cemetery near main campus, where about 300 Union veterans are buried. The Robert Finch Camp of which both Schwander and Morse are members serves 16 northern Michigan counties and estimates that more than 1,000 Union veterans are buried in the five-county Grand Traverse region.
Camp commander Ted Matti, sees the project as a win–win.
“Being they’re in a welding program, they have to work with various kinds of metal,” he said. “Any time you can get involved with anything in the community of historic significance, or helping others, that’s all part of being a citizen in the community, and that’s a good lesson, too.”
Please plan to attend a fiction reading by Traverse City native Stephanie Carpenter, whose short story collection won the 2017 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction and will be published this month.
Carpenter will read from her new book, “Missing Persons” Oct. 13 at Dutmers Theater in the Dennos Museum from 5:30-6:30 p.m., with light refreshments to follow.
Carpenter teaches literature and creative writing at Michigan Tech. Author George Saunders wrote a blurb for her book, Missing Persons, in which he described the collection as, “Inventive, magical, compelling, and strange in just the way life and people are strange. Stephanie Carpenter is a rare and wonderful talent.”
NMC’s Student Veterans of America (SVA) Chapter and Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL), a non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization working to pass federal legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is partnering with the International Affairs Forum to present a screening of the documentary, The Age of Consequences, about the national security risks of a changing climate. It has just been confirmed for October 25, 6:30 p.m. at Milliken Auditorium. It will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Major General Michael Stone of the Michigan National Guard and Major General Michael Lehnert USMC (ret.) who is an SVA board member living in our area now.
Many people aren’t aware of the broad consensus among national security experts and our military leaders that climate change is a threat multiplier that will put our armed service members at increasing risk. Secretary of Defense Mattis said “I agree that the effects of a changing climate — such as increased maritime access to the Arctic, rising sea levels, desertification, among others — impact our security situation. I will ensure that the department continues to be prepared to conduct operations today and in the future, and that we are prepared to address the effects of a changing climate on our threat assessments, resources, and readiness.”
Finally, the CCL’s work has had great success building support for climate solutions in Congress because they approach every congressional office from a place of appreciation and respect. In fact, our own Congressman, Lt. Gen. Jack Bergman, just announced that he joined the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus. You can read here about how the local CCL chapter involved Traverse City Central high school students in that effort.
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Tickets are now on sale for the annual Great Lakes Great Chefs dinner benefiting NMC’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute.
The Nov. 10 evening begins at 6 p.m. with sparkling wine and a raw bar on the Great Lakes Campus catwalk, then moves to Lobdell’s : A Teaching Restaurant for five amazing courses and a spectacular view. Guest chefs working in collaboration with GLCI students include GLCI alumni Stephanie Witala (S2S), Katie Ianni (Executive Pastry Chef, Grand Traverse Resort and Spa) and Ed Sura (Executive Chef, NoMi, Park Hyatt, Chicago); as well as Chef Joseph George (Kingsley Enterprises) and Chef Rob Sargent (Stafford’s Hospitality, The Pier).
Tickets can be purchased online here or by calling (231) 995-1021.
Proceeds from this event will be used to bring talented chefs and individuals from the culinary world to the Great Lakes Culinary Institute to teach and work side by side with students. Join us for a great night of food and wine presented by the Great Lakes Culinary Institute and Superior Foods.
Health Services will be open Tuesday, October 10 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Stop by Biederman Building, room 106 and get your flu shot.
We are in an exciting academic year here at Northwestern Michigan College. Some of our students are waking up in the new North Hall, one of our newest AQIP teams is finding innovative ways to educate and engage our learners, and the students in our first cohort of 100 commitment scholars are officially Hawk Owls this fall. This is all possible because of the work you do every day and I thank you.
Our world is changing at an ever quickening pace, but together we continue to find new ways to prepare our students to be successful. We must be focused not only on the work we are doing today, but also planning for an uncertain future and creating an environment on campus that is agile enough to adjust to the forces of change. Our multi-year planning process has been an essential element in our effectiveness. (more…)
TRAVERSE CITY — U.S. Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations, Policy, and Capabilities Linda L. Fagen will be the keynote speaker at the ninth annual Women on the Water Conference hosted by the Great Lakes Maritime Academy Women on the Water Cadet Club Oct. 26-28.
Maritime cadets (students) travel to Traverse City from the seven academies across the country for the opportunity to learn more about the unique career. A broad spectrum of maritime officers, human resource directors, industry representatives and government officials will participate as speakers, on panels and in workshops to assist future mariners on their professional development and career options.
The conference will include a video welcome from U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and remarks from Maritime Administrator RADM Mark H. Buzby. GLMA will also host concurrent prospective student admissions sessions.
Women on the Water, (WOW) was founded at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in 2007 to support women entering the maritime industry and promote professionalism. Chapters now exist at academies from California to Canada. The conference rotates between academies.
A complete agenda is available here.
Release date: october 5, 2017
Judy Druskovich
Great Lakes Maritime Academy
jdruskovich@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1200
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 Sarah Wangler, Tina Ulrich, and Michele Howard– they all presented at the 2017 Michigan Open Educational Resources Summit on Friday, September 22, 2017. The summit was hosted by Kellogg Community College and Michigan Colleges Online. Sarah’s presentation, “OER as a Pedagogical Tactic in Composition Class,” generated many interesting and beneficial questions from Communications faculty and librarians from around the state. Tina and Michele’s co-presentation, “The Quest! Finding OER, Gov Docs, and Web Resources to Create the Textbooks of Your Dreams,” was offered to an enthusiastic standing-room-only audience. All presenters (and attendees) did NMC proud!
Kudos to Kerry Fulcher- she went above and beyond the last couple very busy weeks at the GLCI. Lobdell’s opened its doors for the fall semester, we hosted the first ever Culinary Medical Conference throughout the September 22-24th weekend and then we hosted the 13th annual Lobdell’s Scholarship Dinner. Kerry put in many, many extra hours to ensure everything ran smoothly for all of these events and when given a task, did it all with a smile on her face.
Kudos to the entire HR Department- We had a special event that we needed to get a large group of students hired for and also had students and supplemental employees who had job changes that needed to be inputted. The whole department stepped up to move the process along at a much faster pace than usual to ensure we had adequate staffing for the event. Thank you, Thank you for all you do.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Good morning Faculty and Staff,
I am pleased to announce that the new NMC Food Pantry is coming soon! This will be a service for NMC students to supplement their food needs and the needs of their families. It has been a hugely collaborative effort on the part of NMC administration, faculty and staff.
Once we open, students will be able to fill out an online form to request food that will be available for them to discreetly pick up in the library, generally within 24 hours. Watch for information later this month on how to help students access this form.
In an NMC classroom of 40 students, research shows, on average 5 of those students may be food insecure (not having reliable access to sufficient food). Therefore, we are introducing the Minus 5 Project moniker to be used anytime we collect food to stock our food pantry.
In preparation for the food pantry opening this semester, we would appreciate your help in bringing non-perishable food items to Professional Development Day as a generous “entry fee”! Here are some examples of what you could bring:
You can drop off your food item(s) at either the Milliken or the Library on October 10th. Thank you for your help and service to our students!
Lisa Thomas
Dean of Students
On Tuesday, October 10, the Center for Instructional Excellence and the Professional Development Institute will host the second annual NMC Fall Conference (formerly Faculty and Staff Professional Development Day.) This college-wide professional development event is open to all regular faculty, adjunct faculty, and regular staff.
An appointment has been sent to your NMC calendar. I ask that we all make appropriate accommodations for supplemental staff and student employees to cover our areas to allow regular employees to attend.
A wide variety of sessions will be available for all NMC faculty and staff to come together to talk about best practices and share ideas, giving everyone an opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other.
This year’s event will focus on innovation, collaboration, and best practices; and will give us the opportunity to enhance the value of our joint investment.
Watch for a more detailed agenda with a list of sessions that will allow you to plan your day.
Thanks for all you do to keep learning at the center and to promote the success of our learners through innovation and collaboration.
Tim
President’s Office
1701 E. Front Street
Traverse City, MI
Phone: (231) 995-1010
The Watershed Center is proud to announce the 10th Annual Freshwater Summit to be held on Friday, October 20, 2017, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hagerty Conference Center on NMC’s Great Lakes Campus. The Freshwater Summit is a conference of environmental professionals and engaged citizens focusing on current issues facing the Great Lakes region.
Select topics include meteotsunamis in the Great Lakes, the FishPass project on the Boardman River, swimmer’s itch, and harmful algae blooms.
Registration is available online at gtbay.org. Cost is $35/person or $15/student and includes lunch. For more information, contact ccrissman@gtbay.org or (231) 935-1514, ext. 1.
The Freshwater Summit is organized by The Watershed Center, Great Lakes Water Studies Institute, Michigan Sea Grant Extension, Great Lakes Environmental Center, Inland Seas Education Association, NOAA’s Office for Coastal Management and the Grand Traverse Conservation District.
To my NMC Family,
Thank you very much for the plant arrangement that was at my father’s funeral. My family and I truly appreciate your sympathy at this time.
Sincerely, Carole McKee & Family
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: http://mailchi.mp/nmc/october-2017-nmc-training-services-newsletter?e=c7a1bcf4f4
This month’s topics include the Michigan New Jobs Training Program, green manufacturing and sustainability, unexpected benefits of Kaizen events, upcoming workshops, and more!
Please join us in welcoming these new additions to our NMC staff! (more…)
Dear Campus Community:
Last night we celebrated NMC Aviation’s 50th Anniversary with students, alumni, retirees, and community members. As with all of our outstanding programs at the college, I am continually humbled by the talent of our students and the generosity shown by our community.
I want you to be one of the first to know that at the event I had the honor to announce that Sallie and Kerm Campbell have included NMC in their estate plans, making a $1 million gift commitment to the college. This generous gift is in memory of Kerm’s brother, Ronald Kent Campbell, who was a great aviator and mentor to students. The gift will support a program fund for innovation and excellence at NMC Aviation—making a difference for every student who passes through the hangar’s doors.
Your dedication to all of NMC’s students is an important part of what inspires people in our community to give to NMC so generously. This college was founded because local citizens believed in the power of education to change lives—and every day you make that belief a reality.
Thank you for all that you do for NMC’s students. And cheers to the next 50 years!
Tim
Timothy J. Nelson, President
