Debra Patterson has joined NMC in the position of Event Scheduler – Central Scheduling on July 9, 2012. She can be reached at 995-1113 or dpatterson@nmc.edu.
Patterson has been with NMC 25 years. Her previous position was Program Assistant for Extended Educational Services. Please welcome Debra to her new position!
Were you unable to attend this year’s TEDx Traverse City event? Did you attend but wish you could revisit one or more of the talks you heard? Well, it’s a good day for you because the videos from this year’s event are now available on the event website and on the NMC TEDx Traverse City webpage. Check them out and share them with others who might find them inspiring and beneficial.
Event website: tedxtraversecity.com/videos
NMC webpage: https://www.nmc.edu/
Be sure to mark your calendars for next year’s event – Wednesday, May 15, 2013!
Five featured new arrivals at the NMC Osterlin LIbrary.
Title: On Course : Strategies for Creating Success in College and In Life (Study skills plus ed.)
Author: Downing, Skip.
Call number: LB2343.3 .D69 2011
Pub date: 2011
COURSE: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND IN LIFE, STUDY SKILLS PLUS EDITION will engage you with the tools you need to take charge of your success in college and in life.
Title: The Resilient Gardener : Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Author: Deppe, Carol.
Call number: SB324.3 .D475 2010
Pub date: 2010
Winner of About.com’s Reader’s Choice Award: Best Garden Book Since 2010 Selected by Amazon.com as one of the Top 10 Books of 2010 in the Home and Gardening Category! CREATIVE, PRODUCTIVE GARDENING FOR GOOD TIMES AND BAD.
Title: South of Superior
Author: Airgood, Ellen.
Call number: PS3601 .I74 S68 2011
Pub date: 2011
A debut novel full of heart, in which love, friendship, and charity teach a young woman to live a bigger life. When Madeline Stone walks away from Chicago and moves five hundred miles north to the coast of Lake Superior.
Title: Wolf Hall : A Novel 1st U.S. ed.
Author: Mantel, Hilary, 1952-
Call number: PR6063 .A438 W65 2009
Pub date: 2009
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster.
Title: The Best 376 Colleges 2012 ed.
Author: Franek, Robert.
Call number: REFERENCE L901 .P75 B47 2012
Pub date: 2012
What makes The Best 376 Colleges the most popular college guide? *DIRECT QUOTES FROM STUDENTS that give insight into each school’s unique character, classes, financial aid, social scenes, and more.
A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir by Elena Gorokhova, 2010, 350pp
Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language—but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive.
Request a book: The library will coordinate the purchase of books. Copies are available at a subsidized price of $5. If you would like a copy, email Tina Ulrich (tulrich@nmc.edu.) If you are going to find your own copy but want to be included in the discussion, email Tina to be added to the list. We will notify you when copies arrive.
Save the date (book discussion): Friday, Nov. 16 – noon to 1:30pm, Lobdell’s, A Teaching Restaurant (NMC Great Lakes Campus)
Sarah Hemminger joined NMC in the position of Annual Giving Specialist on June 25, 2012. She can be reached at 995-1030 or shemminger@nmc.edu.
Sarah and her husband Aaron Hemminger moved to Traverse City from Jackson, Michigan this month. They have “The love of their life” a 4-year-old Australian Shepherd mix named Jack. Prior to moving here Sarah worked for the American Red Cross as the Emergency Services Director for both the Mid-Michigan Chapter in Lansing and the South Central Michigan Chapter in Jackson. Her hobbies include a love affair with Northern Lower Michigan and the U.P., photography, hiking, beading and now volunteering for the Red Cross.
EMPLOYEE ANNIVERSARIES
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Dave Dalquist, Intranet Coordinator, 18 years
Lisa Dohm, Communications Instructor, 5 years
Michael Emerson, Communications/Humanities Instructor, 15 years
Mike Hochscheidt, Maritime Academy Instructor, 33 years
Laura Jaquish, Science/Math Instructor, 13 years
Bob Mason, Maritime Academy Instructor, 33 years
Shelley Rollin, Assistant – Admissions, 21 years
Megan Ward, Writing Center Coordinator , 4 years
POSITION VACANCIES
Following are positions currently open at NMC. For detailed information on externally posted positions, please visit NMC’s web page at www.nmc.edu/jobs Information on internal postings has been emailed.
NMC’s Hagerty Center has immediate openings for dishwashers. Excellent starting wage. For more information or to apply online visit http://www.nmc.edu/jobs. For assistance call 231-995-1377 or 1-800-748-0566 x51377 or email hr@nmc.edu
OPEN POSTINGS
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Instructor – Clinical Nursing (38-443)
Adjunct Faculty-World Languages (49-443)
Adjunct Faculty – Sociology (84-443)
Adjunct Instructor-Technical Instructor (86-443)
Adjunct Instructor – Manual Mill and Lathe (87-443)
Adjunct Instructor-CNC Programming (88-443)
Adjunct Chef Instructor (89-443)
Adjunct Faculty-Computer Information Technology (97-443)
Adjunct Faculty-Physics Instructor (98-443)
Faculty
HVAC/R Instructor (95-443) (Full time)
Nursing Instructor – Mental Health (91-443) (Part time)
Professional Staff
Master, T-S State of Michigan (99-443) (Full time)
Employee Wellness Coordinator (103-443) (Part time)
Student Employee
White Pine Press Photographer-Student Employee (64-443)
White Pine Press Copy Editor-Student Employee (65-443)
White Pine Press Writer-Student Employee (66-443)
Switchboard Operator Assistant-Student Employee (83-443)
Library Assistant-Student Employee (90-443)
Student Life Office Assistant-Student Employee (94-443)
Residence Hall Front Desk- Student Employee (101-443)
Groundskeeper-Student Employee (104-443)
Supplemental Staff
Banquet Server-Hagerty Center (41-443)
Busser-Hagerty Center (72-443)
Bartender-Hagerty Center (73-443)
Dishwasher-Hagerty Center (81-443)
NMC Bookstore Clerk/Cashier-Supplemental (100-443)
Center for Learning Assistant-Supplemental (102-443)
CLOSED PENDING OUTCOME
Professional Staff
From the May 27 Traverse City Record-Eagle
http://record-eagle.com/local/x728158080/Underwater-archaeology-school-returns-to-NMC
In an effort to better protect your personal information, NMC will be requiring credit card payments for tuition and fees to be processed through NMC Self-Service only – www.nmc.edu/selfservice/.
Effective July 1, 2012, credit card payments made for tuition, fees, and other charges related to for-credit courses will not be accepted over the phone or in the Student Financial Services Office.
Payments by cash, check, or money order can be made in person at Student Financial Services (Tanis Building, main level). Checks can also be mailed to Northwestern Michigan College, Business Office, 1701 East Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49686.
Credit card payments can be made through NMC Self-Service from any location where you can access the internet. This includes dedicated computers in the Student Financial Services Office, where you can get assistance with how to pay online, and additional computers in the Tanis Atrium provided for your Self-Service access.
These changes are only on the student account payments as described above and will NOT affect any other transactions on our campuses where credit cards are accepted.
Contact:
Student Financial Services
Phone: 231-995-1035
Email: sfs@nmc.edu
50 Years Ago:
• At the annual spring Motel & Resort Association mtg. hosted by the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce, “Preston Tanis, Northwestern Michigan College director, said the decade-old school in Traverse City is a million dollar business for the community through expenditures by 803 students.”
25 Years Ago:
Sherry Sheppard [Howard] was announced in the Record-Eagle as the NMC Employee of the Month for April.
From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library
The NMC Bookstore will be closed Wednesday, June 27 through Friday, June 29 for inventory. The bookstore will reopen on Monday, July 2.
Title: Aquaponic gardening : a step-by-step guide to raising vegetables and fish together
Author: Bernstein, Sylvia.
Call number: SB126.5 .B47 2011
Pub date: 2011
Aquaponics is a revolutionary system for growing plants by fertilizing them with the waste water from fish in a sustainable closed system. A combination of aquaculture and hydroponics, aquaponic gardening is an amazingly productive way to grow organic vegetables, greens, herbs, and fruits.
Title: “Stretching” exercises for qualitative researchers
Author: Janesick, Valerie J.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Pub date: c2004.
Pages 274
Call no: H62 J346 2004
`Overall, I consider this work to be a valuable resource for teachers and students of research, as well as researchers who want to extend or refine their skills’ – Qualitative Research Journal
Title: The Dharma Bums
Author: Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Pub date: 2006.
Pages: 187 p.
Call no: PS3521 E735 D48
The Dharma Bums was published one year after On the Road made Jack Kerouac a celebrity and a spokesperson for the Beat Generation. Sparked by his contagious zest for life, the novel relates the adventures of an ebullient group of Beatnik seekers in a freewheeling exploration of Buddhism and the search for Truth.
Title: The Health Benefits of DogWalking for People and Pets
Author: Johnson, Rebecca A., 1956-
Publisher: Purdue University Press,
Pub date: c2011.
Pages: 197 p.
Call no: SF427.46 H43 2011
Drawn from peer-reviewed papers delivered at a symposium entitled Research Meets Practice: Human-animal Interaction in Obesity Across the Lifespan, part of the larger 18th Annual Conference of the International Society for Anthrozoology, held in Kansas City, Missouri in October 2009.
Title: Here Comes Trouble : Stories From My Life
Author: Moore, Michael, 1954 Apr. 23-
Publisher: Grand Central Pub.,
Pub date: 2011.
Pages: 427 p.
Call no: PN1998.3 M668 A3 2011
“I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn’t understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.”
Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation’s unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forest Gump.
Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he’s an eleven-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he’s inside the Bitburg cemetery with a dazed and confused Ronald Reagan. Fast-forwarding to 2003, he stuns the world by uttering the words “We live in fictitious times . . . with a fictitious president” in place of the expected “I’d like to thank the Academy.”
To Albert Buchanan for working in the sweltering heat this past weekend to pre-stage and test equipment for the Kids Free Fishing Day. At the end of the event Albert disassembled and returned the equipment to storage. Way to go Albert!
To Bill Hardy, Jim Gray, and Rick Spires for these gentlemen responded very quickly when called upon for assistance in East Hall. They were very professional and went over and beyond expectations.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Sam Foster, Desktop Computer Support Specialist, 1 year
Emily Magner, Office Manager – Student Life, 2 years
Regis McCord, Social Sciences Instructor, 26 years
Did you know that all NMC employees can take advantage of Fifth Third’s Membership Advantage for free? All you have to do is ask your banker. For more information contact either Michael Cook at 922-4325 or Matthew Quinter at 922-4018 or stop by the branch at 1028 E Eighth Street.
Following are positions currently open at NMC. For detailed information on externally posted positions, please visit NMC’s web page at www.nmc.edu/jobs Information on internal postings has been emailed.
NMC’s Hagerty Center has immediate openings for dishwashers. Excellent starting wage. For more information or to apply online visit http://www.nmc.edu/jobs. For assistance call 231-995-1377 or 1-800-748-0566 x51377 or email hr@nmc.edu
OPEN POSTINGS
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Instructor – Clinical Nursing (38-443)
Adjunct Faculty-World Languages (49-443)
Adjunct Faculty – Sociology (84-443)
Adjunct Instructor-Technical Instructor (86-443)
Adjunct Instructor – Manual Mill and Lathe (87-443)
Adjunct Instructor-CNC Programming (88-443)
Adjunct Chef Instructor (89-443)
Adjunct Faculty-Computer Information Technology (97-443)
Adjunct Faculty-Physics Instructor (98-443)
Faculty
HVAC/R Instructor (95-443) (Full time)
Nursing Instructor – Mental Health (91-443) (Part time)
Professional Staff
Master, T-S State of Michigan (99-443)
Student Employee
White Pine Press Photographer-Student Employee (64-443)
White Pine Press Copy Editor-Student Employee (65-443)
White Pine Press Writer-Student Employee (66-443)
Tutor-Student Employee (82-443)
Switchboard Operator Assistant-Student Employee (83-443)
Library Assistant-Student Employee (90-443)
Student Life Office Assistant-Student Employee (94-443)
Supplemental Staff
Banquet Server-Hagerty Center (41-443)
Busser-Hagerty Center (72-443)
Bartender-Hagerty Center (73-443)
Dishwasher-Hagerty Center (81-443)
NMC Bookstore Clerk/Cashier-Supplemental (100-443)
CLOSED PENDING OUTCOME
Professional Staff
A couple of feature stories this week:
The Duluth News Tribune featured two hometown NMC Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadets when the ship was there last week
http://www.duluthnewstribune.
7 and 4 interviewed Hans Van Sumeren, Director of NMC’s Great Lakes Water Studies Institute about Michigan’s underwater artifact laws