Oct 23, 2023 | Intercom, Student News
Do you have a project or an idea and need help bringing it to fruition? Join one of the two design thinking workshops that are being offered in November and February.
This hands-on series will introduce the Design Thinking process to NMC faculty, staff, students, and community stakeholders. Together, we’ll:
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- connect and empathize
- define challenges
- ideate and prototype solutions
- test and assess solutions
- review
The workshops will be facilitated by Brittany VanderBeek and Nick Beadleston who will frame “how might we” questions for small breakout groups to learn how the design thinking process can help participants innovate and meet their goals through collaborative in-session and out-of-class activities.
Oct 23, 2023 | Intercom, International Affairs Forum, Student Events
Northwestern Michigan College’s International Affairs Forum continues its 30th season on Thursday, November 9 at 6:30 p.m. with a talk by Kaveh Madani, Ph.D., world renowned environmental scientist and director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, known as the UN Think Tank on Water. Madani previously served as the Deputy Vice President of Iran in his position as the Deputy Head of Iran’s Department of Environment, and as the Vice President of the UN Environment Assembly Bureau, the world’s highest-level decision-making body for matters related to the environment.
Being in charge of the international relations of Iran’s Department of Environment, in his diplomatic role, Madani led Iran’s delegation in different major intergovernmental meetings and negotiations, including the 23rd United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23).
The event will be held at the Dennos Museum Center and is available to livestream online. Admission is free for students and educators; tickets for the general public are $15. A reception will precede the event at 5:30 p.m.
For in-person tickets, online tickets, and all event details, visit TCIAF.com.
Oct 23, 2023 | Intercom
Continuing the energy created through October Conference, Growing a Culture of Innovation at NMC, there are new resources available on the Office of Possibilities website. Check out these ideas, suggested by Dr. Andy Gold of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship, including mural learning, the 11-star customer experience, the 5 Whys, and ways to share your updates directly with NACCE.
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- Mural Learning: a wonderful collaboration tool to work with teams virtually. Tons of design thinking templates and resources.
- Wonderful video featuring Brian Chesky (Airbnb co-founder) discussing the “11-star experience.” A way to frame the ideal state for design thinking.
- Primer on the “5 whys” root cause analysis. This may help the NMC teams to think more critically about the problem they are trying to solve. By simply asking “why” five times may unpack an entirely different outlook on the problem and get to the core source that may be contributing to the challenge.
- NMC stories. One of the central roles that the NACCE membership team provides to its members is to be a national voice that can showcase and profile the amazing work taking place within community colleges. To that end, as I mentioned yesterday, we would welcome the opportunity to showcase NMC. Please share this Google form for anyone that wants to share an interesting development at NMC, so NACCE can broadcast the story through our e-news publication.
Visit nmc.edu/oops for even more ideas and resources.
Oct 20, 2023 | Intercom
The NMC Board of Trustees will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, Oct. 23 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 106/107 in the Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center on NMC’s main campus. More information is available here.
For more information, please contact the President’s office at (231) 995-1010.
Oct 18, 2023 | Intercom, Student News
TRAVERSE CITY — Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) Professional Communications students are helping local families this Thanksgiving with the tenth annual Food for Thought Thanks-for-Giving experiential learning project.
Student goals are to improve their professional communication skills through experiential learning and to help their community by donating 125 boxed Thanksgiving day dinners for families to take home and cook. The class is partnering with the NMC Food Pantry and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Michigan to donate to NMC student families and families in the Traverse City community. Boxes will be distributed at the NMC gym on November 20.
“It feels good to know that we’re serving the community and learning at the same time, instead of taking this class solely for the purpose of getting the credits we need to graduate,” said student Meredith Kilbourn.
Donations are being collected in a month-long drive where donors have the chance to win prizes like a weekend stay at the Delamar Hotel, an Elev8 family climbing package, a wine tasting for six at Chateau Chantal, and other prizes by donating $10 or more at nmc.edu/give. (Choose the amount, select “designate my gift to other,” and type in “Thanks For Giving.”) Donors can only enter the prize drawing once. Winners will be announced after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Community members also have the option to donate at a glow skate event hosted by the NMC class on November 3 between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. at the Howe Ice Arena in the Traverse City Civic Center. The glow skate will be $10 to enter and $5 to rent ice skates.
The final option to assist in their efforts would be to donate pop cans in their marked bins, found in NMC’s North Hall, East Hall, Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center and Parsons-Stulen Building. The bins will be collected twice a week from now until November 13. Pick-up/drop-off options are available by contacting one of the individuals below.
Release date: OCTOBER 18, 2023
For more information:
Isabella Cronk
Marketing Leader
(231) 649-3534
Cronki@mail.nmc.edu
Kristy McDonald
Business Instructor
(231) 995-1059
Kmcdonald@nmc.edu
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Oct 17, 2023 | Intercom
The Executive Committee of Northwestern Michigan College’s Board of Trustees will hold a joint meeting with the NMC Foundation Board Executive Committee at 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 19 in the Gray Conference Room (202) on the University Center campus, 2200 Dendrinos Dr. The official meeting notice is available here.
For more information, please contact the President’s office at (231) 995-1010.
Oct 17, 2023 | Intercom
The Audit and Policy committees of Northwestern Michigan College’s Board of Trustees will each meet Wednesday, Oct. 18 in the Gray Conference Room (202) on the University Center campus, 2200 Dendrinos Dr. The Audit Committee meeting is at 11 a.m. and the Policy Committee meeting is at noon. The official meeting notices are available here.
For more information, please contact the President’s office at (231) 995-1010.
Oct 17, 2023 | Intercom, Student News
The Michigan State Police will be conducting training with the NMC Police Academy on Monday, October 23. This training will take place at the north end of the Maple parking lot and that area will be closed to the public. If you notice an increased State Police presence during that time, please note that it is for training purposes.
Oct 16, 2023 | EES Opportunities, Intercom
Did you know that your tuition waiver benefits extend beyond credit classes? Take a fitness class, learn a new hobby, or even enjoy a date night with your partner. Check out these upcoming classes! Place the class in your shopping cart in order to see the discount.
Unlock Your Globe-Trotting Dreams: Master the Art of Travel Hacking
Thursday, Oct. 19; 6–9 p.m.
Employee price: $22 (public price: $49)
Travel hacking is the art of using points, miles, or special promos to help you achieve your globe-trotting dreams on a budget. Think of it like coupon clipping and rebates, but instead of tripping over yourself to snatch up those $5 savings on paper towels, you could be scoring luxurious villas and first class flights for a fraction of the price! What are you waiting for?
Register here
Cookie Decorating with Kids (for Adult + Child Age 8+)
Saturday, Oct. 28; 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Employee price: $54 includes adult + child (originally $119)
Want a sweet and spooky activity to share with your kids this Halloween? Learn how to decorate beautiful, professional-looking cookies using royal icing. You and your child will have fun creating these holiday-themed edible delights.
Register here
Lunch & Learn: Great Gardens of Great Lakes
Monday, Oct. 30; 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Employee price: $27 (public price: $49)
Have you visited The Botanic Garden at Historic Barnes Park? This is your opportunity! Build a botanical bucketlist as your walk through some of the most inspiring and innovative gardens in the Great Lakes Region. From large gardens like Chicago Botanic Garden and Frederik Meijer to some of smaller size, you will be wowed by the diversity of designs and breadth of collections of plants from across our region. Class meets at The Botanic Garden at Historic Barnes Park.
Register here
Oct 16, 2023 | Intercom, Media Mentions
The following college events and stories have appeared in the media recently. 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 NMC Library.
Traverse City embraces large-scale murals
Ticker, Oct. 15
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Oct 16, 2023 | Intercom, Student News
Are you ready to tackle critical freshwater issues and advance climate adaptation? AquaAction and NMC have partnered to bring the AquaHacking Great Lakes Challenge to Michigan for the first time. The AquaHacking Challenge invites talented young innovators from across Canada and the USA to bring their skills and passion to tackle freshwater issues impacting the Great Lakes.
Finalists will be eligible for a chance to win $20,000 seed funding. Registration is open. The deadline to register is October 31.
Learn more and register at aquaaction.org.
Oct 16, 2023 | Hawk Owl Helpers and Heroes, Intercom
PRMC is proud to announce that NMC won 7 Medallion awards from the National Council for Public Relations and Marketing. This includes two gold medallions for recruitment campaigns and materials, silver medallions for Nexus, recruitment campaign materials and special event materials as well as bronze medallion awards for photography and microsite design. Thank you to all of the departments across the college we collaborated with for this exciting work! We’re excited for what we can do together next!
Who’s been a Hawk Owl Helper or Hero for you? Let us know at publicrelations@nmc.edu!
Oct 16, 2023 | Intercom, Student Events
In this engaging interactive presentation, Kennith Scott, HeartMath Certified NeuroChangeSolutions Consultant, will guide you to an understanding of how your brain can be memorized into a vision of the future. Advances in technology allow us to observe the brain in action and one of the biggest outcomes of this technology is a greater understanding of how the brain works, but this understanding is not a discovery, successful individuals have been using this capability of the brain without the scientific understanding for hundreds or thousands of years. The evidence of the brain’s power to create is all around us and in this presentation, you will start to build a model you can use to leverage the greatest technology the world has ever known, your human brain!
Pizza and beverages will be provided by the Experiential Learning Institute. The Lunch & Learn will take place on Thursday, October 26 from 1–2 p.m. in room 226 of the Parsons-Stulen Building at NMC’s Aero Park Campus.
Oct 16, 2023 | Intercom, Student Events
The NMC Ambassadors are hosting the annual Trunk or Treat on Thursday, October 26 from 6–7:30 p.m.
The Student Life Office and Student Ambassador team are hosting Trunk or Treat on Thursday, October 26 from 6–7:30 p.m. in the Cherry Lot across from the Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center. NMC students and their families as well as community members are invited to trick or treat that evening.
Students may also participate in the event by signing up to be one of the vehicles that lines up to hand out the candy that evening. Participants handing out candy should pick a theme, dress the car (and/or themselves) in the theme. You will also need to provide your own candy. Vehicles are asked to be in place 5 p.m. that evening.
Sign up to dress up your trunk and hand out candy
Please contact the Student Life Office at (231) 995-1118 if you have questions.
Oct 16, 2023 | Emergency Management, Intercom
Fire or presence of smoke in a building:
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Oct 16, 2023 | Intercom, Student News
What better way to improve one’s Spanish than connecting with others who also speak the language?
Join fellow Spanish speakers on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. at the Hawk Owl Café!
Speakers of all levels are welcome (from beginner to native speaker). Look for the Spanish table sign near the Hawk owl Café!
The weekly Spanish table is sponsored by NMC’s Multicultural Club! Hable español con nosotros!
Oct 16, 2023 | Intercom
Thank you to all the staff and faculty who helped make the October Conference a success! We could not have done it without you!
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- Jerry Achenbach
- Carolyn Andrews
- Ryan Archer (Tower Pinkster)
- Ed Bailey
- Lisa Balbach
- Marcus Bennett
- Linda Berlin
- Alex Bloye
- Jeffrey Cobb
- Jerry Dobek
- Hollie DeWalt
- Brandon Everest
- Margaret Fox
- Diana Fairbanks
- Breana Goodell
- Terri Gustafson
- Nancy Gray
- Todd Haines
- Megan Holtrey
- Robb Houston
- Jennifer Hricik
- Alyssa Irani
- Tony Jenkins
- Keith Kelly
- Will Kitchen
- Tamella Livengood
- Laura Matchett
- Kristy McDonald
- Hollianne McHugh
- Jeffrey Morse
- Cari Noga
- Nick Roster
- Shannon Schultz
- Jason Slade
- Jay Smith
- Nicole Speelman
- Melissa Sprenkle
- Lisa Thomas
- Lisa vonReichbauer
- Kerrey Woughter
- Beckie Wooters
- Sarah Wangler
- Ryan Wilson
- Glenn Wolf
Oct 13, 2023 | Intercom
The Building & Site committee of Northwestern Michigan College’s Board of Trustees will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 17 in the President’s Conference Room of the Tanis Building on NMC’s main campus, 1701 E. Front St., Traverse City. The official meeting notice is available here.
For more information, please contact the President’s office at (231) 995-1010.
