Do you want to meet people in a fast, fun way? Try Speed Friending! Here’s how it works: You will be paired up with someone for a few minutes to ask “getting to know you” questions, which we will supply. (Phew, pressure’s off!) When the whistle blows everyone rotates to the next person. This continues until you have the opportunity to meet everyone. Friday October 11, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., NMC Gym located in the Rajkovich Building.
Help Available for Sign up
Qualified representatives from Northwest Michigan Health Agency will guide you through the process
Helpful to bring but not necessary:
The library has purchased many new books so far this year. You can view a handful here along with descriptions or go here to see the full listing. These books are on display in the library’s lobby.
TRAVERSE CITY — Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) and the Faculty Association affiliates of the Michigan Education Association are pleased to announce they have reached a tentative agreement on all contract issues.
The faculty association members will be advised of the details of the agreement prior to a ratification meeting scheduled for Tuesday, October 8.
If approved by association members, the NMC Board of Trustees would review and vote on the agreement in an upcoming public meeting.
Both parties met with a state mediator Wednesday, October 2 to continue negotiations after the release of a non-binding Fact Finder’s Report from the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) on remaining issues in late August. The contracts expired December 31, 2018.
Diana Fairbanks
Executive Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Communications
dfairbanks@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1019
Students working on and seeking help on their research and writing assignments: Osterlin Library will be open Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. (its regular Tuesday business hours), despite the college being closed for the NMC October Conference.
Because Scholars Hall will be closed Oct. 8, the Writing & Reading Center (WRC) will offer students walk-in appointments with WRC staff in the Osterlin Library reference section during the WRC’s regular Tuesday business hours (9 a.m. to 8 p.m.).
Please inform students working on and seeking help on their research and writing assignments that Osterlin Library will be open Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. (its regular Tuesday business hours), despite the college being closed for the NMC October Conference.
Because Scholars Hall will be closed Oct. 8, the Writing & Reading Center (WRC) will offer students walk-in appointments with WRC staff in the Osterlin Library reference section during the WRC’s regular Tuesday business hours (9 a.m. to 8 p.m.).
No Appointment NecessaryClinics held in Student Health Services, LB106 in the Biederman Building (#6 on the Main Campus Map). Call 995-1255 with questions.
Cost:
NOTE! All flu clinics subject to change per current CDC and/or GT Co. Health Dept. health recommendations and vaccine availability.
The following college events and stories have appeared in the media in the past weeks. 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 Osterlin Library.
HBA awards $10,000 in scholarships
Record-Eagle, September 27 (more…)
October 17, 2019 marks the second IAF season event with speaker Ambassador James Zumwalt presenting “Asia Rising: Will Japan remain America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier”?
The event is at NMC’s Milliken Auditorium at 6 p.m.
Tickets are available at the door: $15.00; free for students.
Join us as we discuss the national crisis that is impacting our communities in Northern Michigan. Speakers will bring varying perspectives from their fields of expertise regarding the current challenges and resources available to combat this growing epidemic.
REGISTER: gvsu.edu/hfnorthernmich/reg
VIEW THE FLIER AND SPEAKER LIST
Questions may be directed to dykstrdi@gvsu.edu.
We hope you will join us for this critical discussion.
Hosted by Grand Valley State University’s Office of the Vice Provost for Health and Northwestern Michigan College
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The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
Louise Bichan and Ethan SetiawanCurrently touring in support of their recent recording, Louise Bichan, Orkney (Scotland) fiddler with appearances on the BBC and at Edinburgh Castle, and Ethan Setiawan (USA) 2014 National Mandolin Champion, present a dynamic collaboration and meeting of their musical worlds. The journey taken winds through Scottish, Old Time and Swedish Inspired music woven with contemporary compositions. Bichan’s fiddle is a melodic foil to Setiawan’s counterpoint and harmonic textures, and the two of them weave in and out seamlessly.
While there, grab an Irish inspired lunch from Hawk Owl Cafe’s Meals on the Move.
Sponsored by NMC International Services & Service Learning, and Student Life
The GVSU Traverse City has partnered with the Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation to host a Scholarship Success Workshop at the NMC University Center (2200 Dendrinos Drive) in Room 204 on November 6, 2019 from 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Participants will learn “Tips and Tricks” on how to write a winning scholarship essay. They will also find out more information about local scholarship opportunities. The event is FREE and open to the public.
Seats are limited, so RSVP now at our website.
Wednesday, October 2 from 8-10 p.m.Open to students & community members, all mediums welcome. Sign up @ 7:30.
Limit: 5 minutes
Questions? Contact nmcmag@mail.nmc.edu
Come and see what a Trauma Infused Clinical MSW can do for you! Refreshments will be served. Hear about our part-time and full-time options. All classes are held on NMC’s University Center campus.
Need more information? Contact our MSW Program Coordinator, Janet Vizina-Roubal (aka Dr. Janet):
JanetVizinaRoubal@ferris.edu
(231) 357-2816
www.ferris.edu/socialwork
TRAVERSE CITY — A first-of-its kind conference at NMC next week will offer an opportunity for Great Lakes researchers and advocates to better predict, plan for and manage challenges like the high lake levels that swallowed beaches this summer.
Great Lakes TechSurge: Lakebed 2030, a regional conference of the Marine Technology Society, will convene at NMC’s Great Lakes Campus Oct. 1-2. Internationally recognized for its conferences and technical symposiums, host cities for other upcoming MTS events include Houston, Seattle and Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The Traverse City event is held in parallel with a global initiative, Seabed 2030, which aspires to map the bottom of the world’s oceans by 2030.
Great Lakes Water Studies Institute Director Hans Van Sumeren, the Great Lakes section chair of the MTS, said he proposed the conference here to be sure the lakes weren’t left out of that initiative. Dr. Vicki Ferrini, research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and head of Seabed 2030, will give the conference’s opening keynote address.
“Mapping in general provides multiple users the ability to better understand impacts,” Van Sumeren said. Those impacts include fisheries, invasive species, navigation — both commercial and pleasure — and coastal resiliency, or changes due to climate impacts and water levels.
“Things that are real in the Great Lakes today,” Van Sumeren said. “All those things require some level of mapping and subsurface data collection.”
Less than 10 percent of the Great Lakes lakebed has been mapped at high resolution, he estimated. The conference will allow MTS members from academia, government and industry to discuss and prioritize what data to collect and how to do so.
“It won’t happen unless we have the conversations about prioritization and collaboration,” Van Sumeren said. “It furthers the opportunity for everyone to help shape what we’re doing.”
The event, which is still open for registration, will include speakers and demonstrations from NMC vessels and in the Great Lakes campus harbor. For NMC Marine Technology students it will also include a career fair.
“They’re actively looking for students with our skills,” Van Sumeren said of the conference attendees. NMC offers the nation’s only bachelor’s degree in marine technology in the nation. Begun in 2015, the program just had its largest fall enrollment to date. A total of forty students are enrolled.
“The student success is building momentum,” Van Sumeren said.
Hans Van Sumeren
Executive Director, Great Lakes Water Studies Institute
hvansumeren@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1793 (o)
(231) 392-9690 (m)
The NMC Jazz Bands will be presenting FREE concerts at the West Bay Beach resort in Traverse City on two Thursdays: October 17, Jazz Big Band, and October 24, Jazz Lab Band, both nights at 7 p.m. Open to all ages and with a full menu offered, these will be fun, swinging nights of music!
The NMC Jazz Bands will be presenting FREE concerts at the West Bay Beach resort in Traverse City on two Thursdays: October 17, Jazz Big Band, and October 24, Jazz Lab Band, both nights at 7 p.m. Open to all ages and with a full menu offered, these will be fun, swinging nights of music!
Marine Technology student Max CroweA pair of conferences at the Great Lakes campus over the next week will advance national dialogue in two key program areas, showcase NMC’s top-tier marine technology (pictured) and culinary programs and facilities, and offer students an early glimpse at career prospects.
Great Lakes TechSurge: Lakebed 2030, a regional conference of the Marine Technology Society (MTS), will convene at NMC’s Great Lakes Campus Oct. 1–2. Internationally recognized for its conferences and technical symposiums, host cities for other upcoming MTS events include Houston, Seattle and Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The Traverse City event is held in parallel with a global initiative, Seabed 2030, which aspires to map the bottom of the world’s oceans by 2030.
Great Lakes Water Studies Institute Director Hans Van Sumeren, the Great Lakes section chair of the MTS, said he proposed the conference here to be sure the lakes weren’t left out of that initiative.
“Mapping in general provides multiple users the ability to better understand impacts,” said Van Sumeren, including fisheries, invasive species, navigation and coastal resiliency, or changes due to climate impacts and water levels.
“Things that are real in the Great Lakes today,” said Van Sumeren, who estimated less than 10 percent of the Great Lakes lakebed has been mapped at high resolution. The conference will allow MTS members from academia, government and industry to discuss and prioritize what data to collect and how to do so.
“It won’t happen unless we have the conversations about prioritization and collaboration,” Van Sumeren said. “It furthers the opportunity for everyone to help shape what we’re doing.”
Great Lakes TechSurge comes on the heels of Farms, Food & Health, set for Thursday–Sunday at both the Great Lakes Culinary Institute and the Hagerty Center. It’s the second time the campus has hosted the event connecting farmers and local food advocates with health care providers. NMC chef instructors will offer culinary medicine training for accredited healthcare professionals in addition to speakers, workshops and a vendor expo.
Last held in 2017, a new addition to this year’s event is student scholarships. NMC student Maya Koscielny, who is studying both culinary sales and marketing and fruit and vegetable crop management, will attend thanks to an NMC scholarship that covers her registration fees.
“People just need to be made more aware of the health implications,” of their diet, said Koscielny, who hopes for a career in sustainable farming practices. She’s even going to trade in her Saturday morning free time to attend.
“I’d rather be going to (the conference) than sleeping in,” she said.
Registration for Farms, Food and Health is closed, but the public is welcome to attend the free expo from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Hagerty Center.
Meanwhile, Marine Technology students have the opportunity to see their research published via a poster symposium, and attend a career fair that’s part of Great Lakes TechSurge.
“They’re actively looking for students with our skills,” Van Sumeren said of the attendees. NMC offers the nation’s only bachelor’s degree in marine technology in the nation. Begun in 2015, the program just had its largest fall enrollment to date. A total of forty students are enrolled including Max Crowe, pictured top, conducting mapping and surveying work in Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior this summer.
“The student success is building momentum,” Van Sumeren said.
Great Lakes TechSurge is still open for registration and include speakers and demonstrations from NMC vessels and in the Great Lakes campus harbor.
The International Affairs Forum launched the IAF Student Leadership Team on September 19 at the Dennos Museum Center. Ethan Gerds (left) and Cole Simon (right) are pictured here with IAF’s guest speaker, Tunisian Ambassador Hatem Atallah.
Student Government Association elections will be held this Friday, September 27 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. by logging in to nmc.edu. Candidate bios are available at students.nmc.edu/groups/sga/.
The following college events and stories have appeared in the media in the past weeks. 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 Osterlin Library.
DeVos visits NMC
Record-Eagle, September 20
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Here at NMC we work rigorously to keep our software up-to-date to provide students and employees with a quality experience while using the software and ensuring that data is secure. Although NMC’s devices are kept up-to-date on campus, users frequently access NMC services from personal devices. Consider this: When was the last time you delayed an update on your smartphone or your personal computer? These updates give you the current version of your operating system and fix bugs. More importantly, updates fix security flaws. For this reason, it is important to keep your personal devices up-to-date. Security is an extremely important concern in all workplaces, classrooms, businesses, etc. At NMC, protecting employee and student privacy, including personal information, class information, files and documents, is always our priority.
Smartphones/Tablets
Laptops
To start with, navigate to your device’s settings menu and look for the updates page. Update your device and explore the different features that the new updates brings. What are you waiting for? Take a deep dive into your phone or laptop and see what you can learn.