Thanks to NMC’s Financial Aid staff for offering free assistance with the new FAFSA to the entire community. The service even won a compliment from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who saw a billboard when she was in Traverse City last month. NMC’s next Financial Aid workshop is Feb.12. Walk-in and drop-in appointments are also available every Wednesday throughout February.
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. Need help setting up your profile? Look for “EES” in the Help Desk drop down menu.
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Learn & Play Tabletop Games |
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Knife Skills |
Need help setting up your profile? Look for “EES” in the Help Desk drop down menu.
The NMC Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Gray Conference Room (202F) of the University Center, 2200 Dendrinos Drive, Traverse City, Mich. More information is available here.
For more information, please contact the President’s office at (231) 995-1010.
Save the Date!
Join fellow NMC students and employees on Wednesday, March 13 from 5–7:30 p.m. in the Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center room 106/107 for a fun evening of board games and card games with Lantern Games. Come and learn a new game, make a friend and relax.
Any questions—reach out to athornton@nmc.edu.
Registration is now open for NMC’s College for Kids summer program, which engages students aged 3-17 in fun, experiential learning. Weekly classes run from June 17 through August 2. Special, one-day-only classes are also available. Browse the digital catalog and register now at nmc.edu/kids.
Held at either NMC’s main campus or one of several offsite partner facilities, classes are taught by passionate, experienced instructors that provide a safe and exciting learning environment. Developing their own curriculum, teachers make each class unique, of high interest to students, and experiential with hands-on engagement. Young learners are introduced to adventures in art, science, sewing, technology, theater, culinary, dance, and more.
Classes range from Becoming a Dragon through Kid’s Quilt Camp to the annual GRASP Math & Reading summer bridge program. From outdoor recreation like Stand Up Paddleboarding to art classes like Wheel and Hand-built Pottery, to cooking, robotics, Bucket Drumming and much more—there is something for every learner.
New and returning partnerships such as Drama Kids International, Quarkmine, Grass River Natural Area, and Inland Seas offer specialized classes: Acting Up, VEX IQ Robotics, Shelter Building, Beaches and Streams, and more.
Regular weekly classes start at $149. Thanks to generous donors and a partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwestern Michigan, partial financial assistance for classes is available for those who qualify.
To register or to learn more, visit nmc.edu/kids or contact NMC Extended Education at (231) 995-1700. Please create your household profile online before registering.
Left to right: Alex Jones, Ben Post, Sherry Trier, Terri Gustafson, Ryan Bernstein, Mark DeLonge
This year, employees have the opportunity to pilot NMC’s new DEIB professional development goal as part of the college’s strategic plan. The Educational Technology team was the first group to participate in the DEIB Professional Development Challenge! They volunteered for the Special Olympics to learn more about this diverse population, supporting DEIB learning and creating a sense of belonging in their department. Congratulations on being the first team to lead the way in this new DEIB learning strategy!
How does it work?
Check out the Embrace the Dream calendar or click on this list of DEIB Learning Opportunities. Feel free to add your ideas to this list to encourage others to participate too!
Use this form to reflect on your experience (reading or learning event/activity participation). Provide your feedback to influence how we incorporate these learning experiences into our goals for 2024–2025.
Thanks for participating in this pilot project, which will be incorporated into each of our goals for 2024-2025!
Questions? Contact Marcus Bennett at mbennett@nmc.edu or Lori Hodek at lhodek@nmc.edu.
Registration is open for Crucial Conversations for Accountability! This course is strongly recommended for all supervisors and anyone who wants to improve their relationships.This in-person, experiential learning based course provides a step-by-step process, tools, and support for resolving performance gaps, enhancing accountability, reducing resentment, eliminating inconsistency, and improving performance both at a professional and a personal level. During this 2-day training, learn how to have those difficult conversations in a way that solves problems while improving relationships. Note: Both days are required for course completion.
Dates/times:
There is no cost to employees for this course (the course retails for $799 at U of M). Participants receive a free copy of the book Crucial Accountability.
Follow these instructions to sign up now for this effective, experiential learning based course.
For questions, contact professionaldevelopmentinstitute@nmc.edu or call (231) 995-1143.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Kudos to Doug Sieffert. Doug took time away from his primary responsibilities to work with Media Services on a time-sensitive project. The right place at the right time, Thank you Doug!
Kudos to Katie Sommer-Ford. Kudos on Katie’s planning and pre-work on the Career Fair coming up in March. A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to offer the opportunity for our students and local employers to meet. Great job, Katie!
Kudos to Elizabeth Sonnabend, Lisa Molmen, Ben Post and Ali Thornton. Extended Education & Training supports academic departments by filling nearly 300 seats with community member enrollments each year. This is no easy feat! One of the biggest challenges threads across four departments and involves Moodle. The heroes behind this are Elizabeth Sonnabend, Lisa Moleman, Ben Post, Ali Thornton and certainly a few others who step in as needed. This past term has gone the smoothest; this team is improving the Moodle integration each time! Thank you, “Team Joint Offering Moodle Magic!”
Experts suggest maintaining an “attitude of gratitude” increases positivity for yourself and for others. Please encourage your colleagues by submitting a KUDOS. Let them know you appreciate their hard work and are thinking of them!
These employees recently started working at the college. Let’s welcome them to the NMC community!
NMC’s Engineering department, in conjunction with the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers, will be hosting the Northern Michigan Chapter of the annual MATHCOUNTS competition on Friday, February 9, 2024. The event will begin at noon on the main floor of the Beckett building and the first round of competition begins at 1 p.m. The event is expected to wrap up around 5 p.m. Volunteers are needed to help with set-up, scoring, and/or clean-up. Anyone interested in helping with setup and/or scoring can contact Jay Smith at jsmith@nmc.edu.
About MATHCOUNTS: MATHCOUNTS offers fun and engaging programs that get middle school students excited about math. These programs include the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series. The Competition Series has 4 levels of competition—school, chapter, state and national. Each level of competition is comprised of 4 rounds—Sprint, Target, Team and Countdown Round. Altogether, the rounds are designed to take about 3 hours to complete. (OUR STORY | MATHCOUNTS Foundation)
It’s that time of year again! The bookstore will be taking requisitions for summer and fall course materials.
Course material adoption deadlines are early because:
Summer requisitions
Open Monday, February 5 and will be due by Friday, February 23
Fall requisitions
Open Monday, February 26 and will be due by Friday, March 15
Faculty, department heads, and office managers should be on the lookout for requisition emails coming from NMC@verbasoftware.com starting on Monday, February 5.
The Rajkovich Physical Education Building is open to all NMC students, staff and faculty members on Mondays and Thursdays from 7-10 p.m.
The gym has equipment for a variety of activities such as :
Bring your fellow friends and colleagues!
For questions, please contact Marcus Bennett at mbennett@nmc.edu, C.J. Schneider at cschneider@nmc.edu or Isaac Dedenbach at idedebanch@nmc.edu.
The NMC Board of Trustees will hold a study session at 1 p.m. Feb. 1 in room C of the Hagerty Center on NMC’s Great Lakes campus. More information is available here.
For more information, please contact the President’s office at (231) 995-1010.
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.
Great Lakes research hub linking startups with academia moves forward near Traverse City
Crain’s Grand Rapids/Detroit Business, Feb. 5
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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. Need help setting up your profile? Look for “EES” in the Help Desk drop down menu.
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Meal Prep Like a Pro |
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Learn & Play Tabletop Games |
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Learn & Play Dungeons & Dragons |
Need help setting up your profile? Look for “EES” in the Help Desk drop down menu.
Northwestern Michigan College’s International Affairs Forum continues its 30th season on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Dennos Museum Center with a program by Lucy Hornby, Senior Associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies. The program is presented in partnership with the Economic Club of Traverse City. The event is free for students and educators.
In 2023, Hornby was a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where her research focused on the revival of the Chinese state and the rise of Xi Jinping during the reform era. She lived in China for almost 20 years, working as a journalist for Reuters and the Financial Times, before returning to the United States as a 2020 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She first moved to China in 1995, teaching English in Wuhan thanks to Princeton in Asia, a program that builds bridges between the United States and Asia. She has also reported on Asian energy markets and investment for Dow Jones Newswires and on Latin American energy investment for Energy Intelligence.
A fluent Mandarin speaker, Hornby has reported from every Chinese province and region, on topics ranging from elite politics to the trade war and environmental pollution. Her coverage was honored with the 2018 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award for excellence in business reporting, among other awards, for investigations into the ownership and financing of some of China’s largest and most opaque conglomerates.
The Feb. 15 in-person event at the Dennos Museum Center Milliken Auditorium is open to the public and available to livestream online. Admission is $15 per person. Admission is free for all students and educators. Doors open at 6 p.m.; the program begins promptly at 7 p.m.
For in-person tickets, online tickets, and all event details, visit TCIAF.com.
The Hawk Owl Café serves specials daily on Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 4:30–6:30 p.m. The protein option is $9.99 and the vegetarian option is $7.99.
Entrée: fettuccine with chicken and pesto cream sauce or fettuccine with roasted vegetable and pesto cream sauce
Sides: broccoli and crostini
Entrée: chicken enchilada with peppers and onions or roasted vegetable enchilada with peppers and onions
Sides: spanish rice and beans
Entrée: sweet & sour pork stir fry w/ jasmine rice
Sides: egg roll
Entrée: potato gnocchi with Italian sausage and alfredo sauce or potato gnocchi with alfredo sauce
Sides: roasted vegetables and garlic bread
Entrée: BBQ pulled pork on brioche or BBQ pulled jackfruit on brioche
Sides: baked beans and cole slaw
