Employee Anniversaries
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them!
Which classes are you taking next semester? What do you have left to finish your degree? When will you graduate? All of these questions can be answered when students create an academic plan through MAP with an advisor. As you’re talking with students, ask them about their Plan and encourage them to meet with an advisor to create a Plan in MAP. Questions? Want some additional tips and training for your area? Contact the Advising Center at 5-1040 or advising@nmc.edu
What classes are you taking next semester? What do you have left to finish your degree? When will you graduate? Did you know ALL of these questions can be answered with an academic PLAN? NMC has an online tool, available through MAP that helps you PLAN your classes for all future semesters. Check it out by logging into MyNMC and clicking on the MAP icon, then selecting the Plans tab. You can create possible plans or meet with an advisor to help you. This tool is great for all students – regardless of program of study or transfer plans! Check it out and make sure YOU have a PLAN!
TRAVERSE CITY — Northern Michigan will get a preview of a new documentary, Is America in Retreat? at a benefit premiere screening set for 6 p.m. March 6 at the State Theatre. Admission to the film and filmmaker Q & A to follow is free but donations will accepted to help send Petoskey high school students to the national Academic WorldQuest competition in Washington DC in April.
The International Affairs Forum, sponsor of AWQ, is presenting the film, based on the book, America in Retreat by Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal, as an opportunity to discuss the U.S. role in the world from a non-partisan perspective. It will air on PBS stations March 24.
“This film goes beyond politics to look at U.S. foreign policy strategy in the world. American action or inaction abroad – it all has huge ramifications,” notes IAF Co-Chair Karen Segal.
Since WWII, the United States has been at the forefront of a Pax Americana – a period of relative peace guaranteed by U.S. military might. According to the film producers, including Leland-based Executive Producer Tom Skinner, today that peace is threatened from multiple directions: Ambitious and aggressive foreign policy by China in Asia, Russian territorial claims and occupations in Eastern Europe, and deteriorating conditions in the Middle East. More than half of Americans polled today believe we should “mind our own business.”
“Our documentary explores those questions with Bret, other foreign policy scholars and political and military leaders,” Skinner said.
“Whether or not you agree with every aspect of the film, it does an outstanding job of laying out the issues which the audience can then discuss after the film,” Segal said.
Petoskey won the regional AWQ competition Feb. 3. Made up of four Juniors, the team has been competing in AWQ since they were freshmen. They won this year with the highest point score ever awarded in the competition organized by the IAF and NMC.
Karen Segal
International Affairs Forum co-chair
(231) 715-6064
jsegal_kpuschel@yahoo.com