Kudos to Kyle Morrison, Chris Hanna and Alex Jones! Kyle, Chris and Alex helped the redesign of the Great Lakes Campus room 112 to support a better student learning environment. This included better viewing monitors, room layout and room functionality. They were extremely supportive and made the transition smoothly, quickly and with no disruption to classroom activities. The feedback from our students has been 100% positive.
Kudos to Joan Sodini and Emily Crull! A massive thank you to Joan, Emily and the rest of the PR team for their help with College Night, Transfer Fair and Applying to College 101. Their support is no doubt a big factor in this year’s event successes. We had amazing attendance at all of these events and were able to make this year’s changes smooth and effective for students, community and the college reps visiting campus. We received a lot of positive feedback and cannot thank them enough!
Kudos to Jim Bensley and Marina Call! Congratulations to Jim Bensley and Marina Call for a very well attended Lunch & Learn on Study Abroad 2024. There were over 55 participants in attendance to hear about this year’s study abroad trips.
Kudos to Carolyn Andrews! Congratulations to Carolyn Andrews and her team for putting on the awesome event Building Tomorrow. This was an amazing opportunity for local middle and high school students to participate in hands-on activities in the trades field. The local sponsors and volunteers were outstanding and the students had a great time!
Kudos to Katie Sommer-Ford, Bridget Munroe and Rorie Kawula! Transfer week at NMC started off with great momentum at tonight’s Applying to College 101 session! Bridget Munroe and Katie Sommer-Ford from Advising/Student Success listened to the needs of our NMC students to bring an event focused on navigating the transfer admissions process. With collaboration from our internal admissions department including Rorie Kawula, and admissions representative Alex Lasher from NMU, a presentation highlighting the step-by-step process of college transfer and college admission was presented to more than 45 current students, prospective students and parents.
Kudos to Student Life, Student Success and student groups! Heading into the midpoint of our semester it was amazing to see the energy and student engagement for Fall Festival! Hats off to Student Life and office manager Katy Knight, our incredible student leaders from groups across campus, and our Student Success coaches for putting on a truly vibrant Fall Festival. Students had an opportunity to learn more about services and groups they could join, and got to interact with key members of their student support team. Extra thanks to our coaches, with lead efforts by Amber Marsh, for extending the Fall Festival day with a family-focused afternoon of games, crafts and good times outdoors with beautiful weather to top it off!
Kudos to Cari Noga, Emily Crull and Shannah Vergote! Thank you to Cari, Shannah and Emily for collaborating to bring college employees “EES Opportunities” in the Intercom. You are helping to promote our Extended Education & Training classes to our employees and thus improving employee wellness, and personal & professional development—which leads to creating employee culture, a sense of belonging and employee retention!
Kudos to Michelle Poertner! Michelle has voluntarily helped keep the Osterlin Testing Center up and running this semester and has now began actively working with vendors and proctors to reopen the Parsons-Stulen Professional Testing Center. The staff and students at NMC are lucky to have Michelle!
Kudos to Lisa Cooper, Ed Bailey, and Hans VanSumeren for successfully planning and running the LakeBed 2030 Conference. This is currently NMC’s largest and only binational conference. This year’s event was extremely successful with outstanding speakers, great technical demonstrations and picture perfect weather.
2023 Lakebed 2030 conference by the numbers:
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- 184 participants (plus additional single day / non registered attendees)
- 4 keynote addresses
- 21 presentations
- 1 student/employer roundtable
- 1 student award from NOAA for capstone mapping project
- 1 panel discussion
- 14 sponsors
- Partnership with industry leaders including Great Lakes Observing Systems and NOAA
- Tied in with Smart Ships conference
- Many technical demonstrations
This is a major endeavor and couldn’t be pulled off without the hard work of Lisa, Ed and Hans!
Kudos to Chris Little and Tamella Livengood! Last week in the testing center we had a student taking a HESI test when her computer totally froze up and we couldn’t figure out how to remote control it or otherwise get her back into the test. Both Chris and Tamella were extremely helpful in guiding us step-by-step so the student could finish her test on time after driving for six hours just to take it! Thanks Chris and Tamella, especially from someone new at the testing center!
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