Kudos to Shelly VanderMeulen, Jeff Morse, Hollianne McHugh, Carolyn Andrews and Augusta Kummer! A huge shout-out and congratulations to the exceptional team who represented NMC at the MEATA (Michigan Educators Apprenticeship & Training Association) Spring Conference. Not only did the NMC team members attend to collaborate on the future of work-based learning, but they also took center stage as presenters, sharing NMC’s innovative strategies and leadership in workforce development with peers from across the state. By actively participating in these crucial conversations, this team continues to sharpen NMC’s competitive edge in technical education, career pathways and registered apprenticeships! Thank you all for your hard work, your inspiring presentations and for brilliantly demonstrating how NMC is helping to “Chart the Course” for Michigan’s future workforce!
Kudos to Shirl Martin! Extended Education & Training offers a medical assistant program. Becoming a medical assistant is one of the first steps on the “stepping stone” pathway being created through the Sixty by 30 grant, and Anchor and Edge, NMC’s new Strategic Plan (Strategy 2; Objective 4). Because of her noncredit training through EE&T, this week, one of our medical assistant students was offered a new job at Munson Medical Center. Her starting wage is $19.45/per hour, 40 hours per week, with a $10,000 sign-on bonus if she agreed to a two year contract. She did! This is life-changing! She plans to continue on for her nursing degree here at NMC. This is all in thanks to our Sixty by 30 grant initiative and our Student Navigator, Shirl Martin.
Kudos to Marina Call! May 28 marked Marina Call’s last day as a Student Success Coach here at NMC and I want to recognize the incredible contributions she has made while in this position. Marina has served in this role for 5 years and in that time has supported over 400 individual students through nearly 900 coaching appointments! Not to mention the many resource tables at orientation, Welcome Week events, student workshops and classroom visits she has executed. Marina has helped lead and shape the Success Coaching team in many ways and has served as a mentor to other coaches. The impact she has had on the individual students she has supported, our team and on our overall student success and retention goals is immense and we are so grateful to her. While we will miss Marina being a part of the coaching team, we are excited for her to continue in her role with International Services and Service Learning and know that she will bring her coaching skills to all of the students she supports! Thank you, Marina for your dedication, excellence and valuable service as a Student Success Coach and for your continued work on our campus!
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