Sep 2, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
A budding Traverse City tradition will continue this September 13th as the rival high school football teams of Traverse City Central and Traverse City West engage in a game to honor Northern Michigan veterans and to give special recognition to those who have lost their lives in recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For more information read about the event here.
Attendees are asked to purchase shirts to wear to the game in support of their team. Supporters of Central are asked to purchase blue shirts and supporters of West are asked to purchase red shirts to show the friendly rivalry which supports a good cause. The shirts will be available for purchase around Traverse City, including in the office of Military & Veteran Outreach Services on NMC’s campus. Shirts are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
For more information contact Scott Herzberg by phone at (231) 995-2526 or by e-mail at sherzberg@nmc.edu.
Sep 1, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
Come join the award-winning NMC Children’s Choir for its 23rd season. Students entering Kindergarten through grade 9 this fall who love to sing and want to improve their abilities are invited to participate in NMC’s award-winning Children’s Choir. Brief auditions for students entering grades 3 to 9 will be held beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Sept. 10 & 12 in the Fine Arts Building at NMC. Students will be asked to sing the first verse of “America the Beautiful”. Music and accompaniment is provided.
Interested families should call Extended Education (231) 995-1700 to schedule an audition time. Students entering grades K-3 are eligible for the non-audition choirs, call (231) 995-1700 for enrollment information.
Learn more about the choir here.
Sep 1, 2013 | Intercom
The following employees are celebrating anniversaries soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
John Berck Director of Enrollment Management – Maritime Academy 13 years
Doug Domine Humanities Instructor 25 years
Diane Emling Social Sciences Instructor 26 years
Robin Fitzgerald Desktop Computer Support Specialist 6 years
Joelle Hannert Library Technical Services Coordinator 3 years
Kim Hanninen Museum Registrar/Exhibit Preparator 22 years
Keith Kelly Business and Technical Instructor 25 years
John Pflughoeft Science/Math Instructor 25 years
Deb Pharo Science/Math Instructor 25 years
Sarah Shimek Employee Wellness Coordinator 1 year
Aug 29, 2013 | Intercom
Get This:
Introducing FREE FITNESS FRIDAYS in September! Every Friday in September, all employees will have FREE access to NMC’s Fitness Center. Come in anytime during their hours of operation (6am-6:30pm) to check it out and get a great workout in. We also will be hosting Basics Bootcamps for employees!
- Fitness 101: If you are looking to start a new workout routine, shake up your current routine, or learn the basics of designing a routine sure to give you results, attend Fitness 101. Led by Fitness Center trainer Steven Dixon, this 45 minute session will be held September 6th & 20th, at 7am or 8am.
- Nutrition 101: Learn all the basics of healthy eating, meal planning, maintaining a healthy calorie balance and maximizing your households grocery budget. This 45 minute session, led by Wellness Coordinator Sarah Shimek, will be held September 13th & 27th at 12pm or 1pm.
REMINDER: To be eligible for this month’s wellness mini challenge prize drawing, you must sign up for the United Way Live 365 Workplace Wellness Challenge by the end of Friday, August 31st OR Nominate a coworker for being a healthy lifestyle role model/success story.
Make This:
A healthy diet allows room for indulgences at special occasions. Make this gluten free, high protein decadent dessert for your Labor Day celebrations this weekend and enjoy it, guilt free! (PS- don’t worry, know one will know you tricked them into eating beans for dessert. Tastes even BETTER than the real deal!!)
Aug 29, 2013 | Intercom
If you missed Opening Conference on Monday, August 18, would like to skim and view select sections of it, or view the conference in its entirety click here to view the video!
Aug 29, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
NMC Great Lakes Water Studies student Chris Horvath is in Iceland this summer on a Marine Advanced Technology Education Center (MATE) internship aboard Columbia University’s research vessel the R/V Langseth, doing research on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Chris is sending us periodic posts on our new NMC Explore Blog to update us on his adventure.
Student, faculty or staff, whether you’re doing something cool around the world or just around the corner let us know at publicrelations@nmc.edu and maybe you, too, will be featured on the NMC Explore Blog.
Aug 28, 2013 | Intercom
Kudos to the entire NMC community for extending a friendly smile and helpful hand to parents, grandparents, instructors, and especially our future learners as we shared our campuses this summer with 73 instructors and a record breaking 1,808 kids participating in the 8-week EES College for Kids program. EES appreciates the support of so many from media services to the staff and custodians in the heavily used buildings of Parsons Stulen, Scholars Hall, Oleson Center, Fine Arts, PE, and the University Center. A big thank you goes out to all of you. We couldn’t do it without you.
Aug 27, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
Maker’s Bay
NMC’s Makers Bay is a space dedicated to the growing community of makers and do-it-yourself (DIY) projects including robotics.
The learning lab provides you with the equipment, tools, components, and technical assistance to create your DIY project. Join the community of new and experienced makers and learn, play, create, and share.
The class will run for 15 Mondays: Sept. 9-Dec. 16, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in the Parsons/Stulen Bldg. Rm. 157 with instructor Keith Kelly.
The cost of this exciting new class is just $300 and registration can be done online here using code 2351 for this course, by phone at (231) 995-1700, by mail with the registration form found inside the EES catalog, or in person at the NMC University Center on Cass Road.
Aug 24, 2013 | Intercom
New Health Coverage Exchange called the Health Insurance Marketplace
In 2014 if you are uninsured, purchase individual coverage or believe your employer-provided coverage is inadequate or unaffordable, you will be able to shop for coverage directly in the federal Health Insurance Marketplace — a new competitive marketplace where individuals and small businesses can shop for and compare affordable and qualified health benefit plans. The Health Insurance Marketplace will offer you a choice of health plans that meet certain benefits and cost standards.
Open enrollment for the Marketplace for 2014 is October 1, 2013 – March 31, 2014. For more information, visit www.healthcare.gov, where you can sign up for email alerts. Another good source for general information on the Affordable Care Act is the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services.
Aug 24, 2013 | Intercom
Any items you wish to have posted in the Intercom and Student News can be sent to publicrelations@nmc.edu.
Aug 24, 2013 | Intercom
This is the list of current job postings. They can also be viewed on NMC’s website at https://jobs.nmc.edu/ Information on internal regular postings has been emailed.
Adjunct Faculty
Custodial Staff
Faculty
Professional Staff
Student Employee
Supplemental Staff
Aug 24, 2013 | Intercom, Student News
Open Recreation for the semester will begin on Tuesday, September 3. The schedule will be as follows:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Open Basketball: noon – 2 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: Open Basketball: 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Open Recreation is free to all staff, students and faculty with an NMC ID.
Any questions, please contact Jim Szur, Recreation and Intramural Supervisor at 995-1199, or jszur@nmc.edu.
Aug 23, 2013 | Intercom
EMPLOYEE ANNIVERSARIES
The following employees are celebrating anniversaries soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Leanne Baumeler Support Services Specialist 3 years
Marcus Bennett Director of Residence Life/Judicial Affairs 2 years
Kelly Carlton Financial Aid Specialist 15 years
Trisha Domagala Voice Systems Administrator 28 years
Steve Drake Science/Math Instructor 42 years
Tom Dunn Aviation Maintenance Technician 6 years
Heather Frazier Training Specialist 5 years
Holly Gorton Executive Assistant to the President & Board of Trustees 19 years
Kari Kahler Associate Dean of Learning Services 32 years
Taylor Nash Advisor – Academic/Career 3 years
John Pahl Communications Instructor 47 years
Jan Root Office Manager – Communications Academic Area 26 years
Kristen Salathiel Communications Instructor 11 years
Dot Witt Technician – Publications/Event Specialist 14 years
Jane Zlojutro Business Instructor 12 years
Aug 23, 2013 | Intercom
Get This!
Area businesses would like to help us welcome the fall semester healthfully with these specials exclusively for NMC Employees and ALL dependents & spouses of NMC employees:
-30 Day FREE VIP Membership to Fit For You & Their BRAND NEW Fort Fit facility!
-60 & 30 Minute massages at VanSkyhock Family Wellness Center
-Freedom From Smoking Classes, beginning in September
-Free Classes at Yen Yoga
For more information on how to get these deals, please call or email Sarah Shimek sshimek@nmc.edu, 995-1154
Make This!
Aug 22, 2013 | Intercom
Congratulations to Robin Fitzgerald, the winner of the Opening Conference $25.00 gift card drawing from the NMC Bookstore.
Aug 22, 2013 | Intercom, Welcome to NMC
John Velis joined NMC on August 15, 2013 as an instructor in the Computer Information Technology program. He can be reached at 995-1152 or jvelis@nmc.edu.
John, originally from the Detroit Area, has lived in the Empire area for the better part of the last three decades. He is married to Amy Johnson-Velis, a counselor at Glen Lake Comm. Schools, and they have two children, Emma who is beginning her Freshman year at Carlton College and Charlie who is beginning his Junior year at Central High School. John has worked as a secondary teacher, IT director, and owned an Internet design and hosting company. When not hanging with his family he can be found running the trails, kayaking the lakes, soaring the skies, or just messing around in his garage.
Aug 21, 2013 | Intercom
EMPLOYEE ANNIVERSARIES
The following employees are celebrating anniversaries soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Judy Chu Communications Instructor 13 years
Jerry Compton Science/Math Instructor 8 years
Mary Jo Elliott Science/Math Instructor 12 years
Nicole Fewins Business Instructor 13 years
Mike Franklin Science/Math Instructor 12 years
Robb Houston Science/Math Instructor 12 years
Janet Lively Communications Instructor 8 years
Beth Norconk Desktop Computer Support Specialist 17 years
Joel Papcun Culinary Arts Instructor 13 years
Steve Quick Audio Technical Coordinator 6 years
Nick Roster Science/Math Instructor 8 years
Sherry Trier Instructional Technology Support Specialist 4 years
John Zachman Social Sciences Instructor 12 years
Aug 21, 2013 | Intercom
Announcing the CIE reading group books for 2013-14: faculty/adjuncts/staff with adjunct duties can request a copy of one or the other from Joelle Hannert (library). CIE will cover the cost of one book per faculty/adjunct. A group discussion will be hosted by CIE in October.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn’t fix the problem, any more than knowing that we are nearsighted helps us to see. The real question is: How can we do better?
In Decisive, the Heaths, based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases. Written in an engaging and compulsively readable style, Decisive takes readers on an unforgettable journey, from a rock star’s ingenious decision-making trick to a CEO’s disastrous acquisition, to a single question that can often resolve thorny personal decisions.
Along the way, we learn the answers to critical questions like these: How can we stop the cycle of agonizing over our decisions? How can we make group decisions without destructive politics? And how can we ensure that we don’t overlook precious opportunities to change our course?
Decisive is the Heath brothers’ most powerful—and important—book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.
