Deb Pharo is an amazing instructor who has worked tirelessly over the summer to redesign courses to make learning more accessible and competency based for our students who do not qualify for Math 111 yet. She is always seeking out the best strategies for teaching, testing them, and sharing them with others around her. She is not only creative with her approaches but also extremely thoughtful as to what would work best for students and for other instructors who teach the same population. She always strives for the best, not only for herself, but for others around her.

Thank you to Amber Casey for stepping up to get the Fine Arts building in shape for the Fall semester. Amber exceeded expectations and did so with a smile and a great attitude!

On behalf of Wendy and Bilal, our international students from the UK, a BIG thank you to EVERYONE at NMC who helped them. They hope to be back with us for a full school year next year. Special mention to Shauna, Kayla, Elizabeth and Allison, Lindsey, Lisa and Marcus, Steve, Emily, Jerry Cannon and the summer on-campus international students. Many other students, volunteers, faculty, staff, alumni, retirees and community members showed them great kindness as well.