Stop by the Campus Bookstore on Tuesday, October 31 and show us your costume to receive 31% off one item!
NMC’s Campus store is located in the first floor of the Health Science Building (#7 on the campus map).
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.
Up North Lowdown, ep. 29: Down to the river
Interlochen Public Radio, Oct. 22
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NMC student Kiah Anderson and former student Logan Hudson created two new murals along the Boardman Lake Loop Trail this past summer. The pair helped faculty members Glenn Wolff and Rufus Snoddy complete another mural, Boardman Serenade, last year, and this year were invited to paint their own. Anderson’s mural is titled Serenity’s Muse and Hudson’s mural is titled May You Always Know the Truth and See the Light Surrounding You.
Who’s been a Hawk Owl Helper or Hero for you? Let us know at publicrelations@nmc.edu!
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.
Baking Masterclass: Pizza & Focaccia
Saturday, Nov. 4; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Employee price: $43 (public price: $199)
Want to level up your pizza making game? With the help of Chef Les Eckert, discover the secrets of making artisan pizza and focaccia at home. Learn to make and stretch your own perfect dough from scratch. Create the ultimate sauce and learn how different toppings complement each other. Plus, focaccia!
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
Welcome to Writing Children’s Books
2 classes; Wednesday, Nov. 1 & 8; 6:30–8 p.m.
Employee price: $20 (public price: $75)
Have you always wanted to write for children? Come learn about the world of children’s books, from writing to publishing. The story might be short, but the idea must be tall. Like poetry, writing children’s books can look easy from the outside, but there’s a lot to it. We will explore writing for children at different levels, from picture books to novels.
Register here
The Health & Science Building atrium on NMC’s main campus will be used as a polling place from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, November 7 for Precinct 9 voters to cast their ballots. Some parking in the Cedar lot will be set aside for voters at those times.
The NMC Bookstore will be closed that day as well, and will reopen with normal hours on Wednesday, November 8.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Visit nmc.edu/oops for even more ideas and resources.
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.
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.
Isabella Cronk
Marketing Leader
(231) 649-3534
Cronki@mail.nmc.edu
Kristy McDonald
Business Instructor
(231) 995-1059
Kmcdonald@nmc.edu
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.
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.
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.
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
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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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.
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!
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.