Your health matters! NMC has lots of great noncredit fitness classes that begin the week of Oct. 27 or later. Employee tuition waivers apply. Call Extended Education at 995-1700 to register or for more info. Check out all the options at nmc.edu/fitness. (more…)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
Kudos to the following individuals and departments on campus! (more…)
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find it here! https://jobs.nmc.edu/ (more…)
Attend the “DEMYSTIFIED SERIES” and learn about Nutrition, Resistance Training, and Cardiorespiratory Training- presented in simple “shirt-sleeve” English!
Available to groups (get your co-workers on board) or individuals: Mondays & Wednesdays 5 p.m.-8 p.m. and Tuesdays & Thursdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Meetings will be held in the Fitness Center. (more…)
Congratulations to the NMC Public Relations, Marketing & Communications department who earned two Medallion Awards at the 2014 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District III conference in Green Bay, WI, Thursday, October 23. (more…)
Please join us in welcoming these new additions to our NMC staff! (more…)
Lake Leelanau Rowing Club is hosting a rowing regatta 8 a.m.-2 p.m., this Sunday, October 26, with over 400 downstate high school rowers, their parents and masters rowers coming up to race each other as well as four Traverse City High School rowers and four NMC college rowers.
All regatta info and race times are on the national regatta calendar website: www.regattacentral.com/regattas. Click on Leelanau Chase for participating schools and clubs, and all race times.
Come on out and watch rowing in action! What a great activity and great fitness opportunity! NMC Rowing Club is a new student organization and will train in rowing indoors this winter to compete in some spring regatta’s. If interested in more information contact Noelle Sieloff at sielofn@mail.nmc.edu
Save the date for the NMC Holiday Party on Friday, December 12, 2014 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Hagerty Center on our Great Lakes Campus.
Employees and retirees, please mark your calendar and plan to attend. Watch for your invitation to arrive soon with more details.
New this year! Instead of our usual food drive, we’ll be collecting winter clothing at the party (coats, hats, scarves and gloves) to donate to Father Fred Foundation.
To help alleviate hunger in our neighborhoods, please support the Food for Thought food drive by Kristy McDonald’s Professional Communications class. Details can be found in the October 20 Intercom article, “Support Food for Thought, win prizes!” (more…)
TRAVERSE CITY — More than 250 high school choir students will participate in the third annual Choral Invitational Wednesday, October 29, on NMC’s main campus.
Nine choirs from Benzie Central, Elk Rapids, Kingsley, Leland, Lake Leelanau St. Mary’s,Glen Lake, St. Francis, Gaylord and Grayling high schools will spend the day on campus, learning and rehearsing music together, touring the campus, and attending performances of NMC faculty, music majors, and audio tech students.
The invitational culminates in an “Informance” at 6 p.m. in Milliken Auditorium. The public is invited to attend to the informal performance, or come listen to rehearsals during the day.
Diana Fairbanks
Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Communications
dfairbanks@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1019
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the Detroit based Jazz vocalist Joan Belgrave in Joan Belgrave sings Dinah Washington: featuring the Lisa McCall Dancers on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $27 advance, $30 at the door and $24 for museum members plus fees. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Museum Box office at 231-995-1553 or on line at www.dennosmuseum.org, also at 1-800-836-0717 or www.MyNorthTickets.com.
Calling herself the “Queen of the Blues” and considered “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s,” Dinah Washington, was born Ruth Lee Jones (1924 – 1963). She was recognized mainly as a jazz vocalist, though she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music. Ain’t Misbehavin, Unforgettable, What a Diff’rence a Day Makes, Teach Me Tonight, and Please Send Me Someone to Love were among her many hit songs. (more…)
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will host local art appraiser Don Butkovich on Saturday, November 8, 2014, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Proceeds benefit educational programming at the Museum. (more…)
Cathy McCall – Administrative Services Coordinator, has been selected as an NMC Employee of the Semester for summer 2014. Cathy has displayed the values of Northwestern Michigan College as described below. (more…)
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find it here! https://jobs.nmc.edu/
Note: Student jobs have been moved to the Student MyNMC page under “Jobs On Campus.” (more…)
Kudos to the following individuals and departments! (more…)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
If you are interested in a guided tour of the 5K course for either walking or running please contact: Zack Light at jlight@nmc.edu or at 231-995-1379. (more…)
For several years, NMC has supported the Northwest Food Coalition by donating non-perishable food items at the holiday party. This year, the holiday party committee asks NMC faculty and staff to simultaneously support both the Coalition and student learning by filling the pantries through the Food for Thought food drive organized by Kristy McDonald’s Professional Communications class.
Any donations that usually go to the holiday party drive should be donated to the Food for Thought Food Drive, running through Nov. 16. Your department or office also has the opportunity to win prizes. (more…)