Your health matters! NMC has lots of great noncredit fitness classes that begin the week of Oct. 27 or later. Employee tuition waivers apply. Call Extended Education at 995-1700 to register or for more info. Check out all the options at nmc.edu/fitness. (more…)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
Kudos to the following individuals and departments on campus! (more…)
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find it here! https://jobs.nmc.edu/ (more…)
Attend the “DEMYSTIFIED SERIES” and learn about Nutrition, Resistance Training, and Cardiorespiratory Training- presented in simple “shirt-sleeve” English!
Available to groups (get your co-workers on board) or individuals: Mondays & Wednesdays 5 p.m.-8 p.m. and Tuesdays & Thursdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Meetings will be held in the Fitness Center. (more…)
Can You Dig It! Are you interested in Volleyball? Intramural Co-Ed Volleyball begins November 4, 2014. You must have at least 3 females and 3 males on the court. For more information, contact Jim Szur at 995-1199 or jszur@nmc.edu. (more…)
Congratulations to the NMC Public Relations, Marketing & Communications department who earned two Medallion Awards at the 2014 National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District III conference in Green Bay, WI, Thursday, October 23. (more…)
Please join us in welcoming these new additions to our NMC staff! (more…)
Lake Leelanau Rowing Club is hosting a rowing regatta 8 a.m.-2 p.m., this Sunday, October 26, with over 400 downstate high school rowers, their parents and masters rowers coming up to race each other as well as four Traverse City High School rowers and four NMC college rowers.
All regatta info and race times are on the national regatta calendar website: www.regattacentral.com/regattas. Click on Leelanau Chase for participating schools and clubs, and all race times.
Come on out and watch rowing in action! What a great activity and great fitness opportunity! NMC Rowing Club is a new student organization and will train in rowing indoors this winter to compete in some spring regatta’s. If interested in more information contact Noelle Sieloff at sielofn@mail.nmc.edu
The music department is offering a new course – MUS 129 History of Rock and Roll – this spring semester.
In this course students will study the development of rock music styles from its roots to the present, watch historical footage and listen to musical examples of each musical period.
MUS 129 is a Group 1 Course and will satisfy three credits of your Group 1 Humanities requirement. Come join us! (more…)
Red Ribbon Day is Monday, October 27, 2014. Get a red ribbon to wear and show your support for saying “no” to illicit drugs!
When you get your ribbon, you’ll also get a cup of coffee (the “legal drug”) on us! Come to the Welcome Center in the Health and Science building from 8-11 a.m.
An Outreach/Enrollment Specialist will also be available to help students sign up for free health insurance. (more…)
Save the date for the NMC Holiday Party on Friday, December 12, 2014 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Hagerty Center on our Great Lakes Campus.
Employees and retirees, please mark your calendar and plan to attend. Watch for your invitation to arrive soon with more details.
New this year! Instead of our usual food drive, we’ll be collecting winter clothing at the party (coats, hats, scarves and gloves) to donate to Father Fred Foundation.
To help alleviate hunger in our neighborhoods, please support the Food for Thought food drive by Kristy McDonald’s Professional Communications class. Details can be found in the October 20 Intercom article, “Support Food for Thought, win prizes!” (more…)
Community College Week and NISOD are proud to announce the annual Scott Wright Student Essay Contest in honor of Scott Wright, past editor of Community College Week (1995–2000), recipient of the 1998 Award for Excellence in Higher Education Journalism, and the reporter who brought national attention to developmental education and the unique mission community colleges possess in providing an accessible education. Deadline is January 30, 2015. (more…)
TRAVERSE CITY — More than 250 high school choir students will participate in the third annual Choral Invitational Wednesday, October 29, on NMC’s main campus.
Nine choirs from Benzie Central, Elk Rapids, Kingsley, Leland, Lake Leelanau St. Mary’s,Glen Lake, St. Francis, Gaylord and Grayling high schools will spend the day on campus, learning and rehearsing music together, touring the campus, and attending performances of NMC faculty, music majors, and audio tech students.
The invitational culminates in an “Informance” at 6 p.m. in Milliken Auditorium. The public is invited to attend to the informal performance, or come listen to rehearsals during the day.
Diana Fairbanks
Director of Public Relations, Marketing and Communications
dfairbanks@nmc.edu
(231) 995-1019
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present the Detroit based Jazz vocalist Joan Belgrave in Joan Belgrave sings Dinah Washington: featuring the Lisa McCall Dancers on Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM in Milliken Auditorium. Tickets are $27 advance, $30 at the door and $24 for museum members plus fees. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Museum Box office at 231-995-1553 or on line at www.dennosmuseum.org, also at 1-800-836-0717 or www.MyNorthTickets.com.
Calling herself the “Queen of the Blues” and considered “the most popular black female recording artist of the ’50s,” Dinah Washington, was born Ruth Lee Jones (1924 – 1963). She was recognized mainly as a jazz vocalist, though she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music. Ain’t Misbehavin, Unforgettable, What a Diff’rence a Day Makes, Teach Me Tonight, and Please Send Me Someone to Love were among her many hit songs. (more…)
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will host local art appraiser Don Butkovich on Saturday, November 8, 2014, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Proceeds benefit educational programming at the Museum. (more…)
Cathy McCall – Administrative Services Coordinator, has been selected as an NMC Employee of the Semester for summer 2014. Cathy has displayed the values of Northwestern Michigan College as described below. (more…)
Are you looking for career opportunities? Find it here! https://jobs.nmc.edu/
Note: Student jobs have been moved to the Student MyNMC page under “Jobs On Campus.” (more…)
Kudos to the following individuals and departments! (more…)
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary soon. Please join us in congratulating them! (more…)
If you are interested in a guided tour of the 5K course for either walking or running please contact: Zack Light at jlight@nmc.edu or at 231-995-1379. (more…)
For several years, NMC has supported the Northwest Food Coalition by donating non-perishable food items at the holiday party. This year, the holiday party committee asks NMC faculty and staff to simultaneously support both the Coalition and student learning by filling the pantries through the Food for Thought food drive organized by Kristy McDonald’s Professional Communications class.
Any donations that usually go to the holiday party drive should be donated to the Food for Thought Food Drive, running through Nov. 16. Your department or office also has the opportunity to win prizes. (more…)
Sodexo’s Wasteless Week runs October 20-24. All week long, while supplies last, Sodexo will be giving a reusable coffee cup for students who can correctly identify Sodexo’s website, as well as following them on Facebook and Instagram or Twitter. (more…)
Think you’ve got what it takes to be one of the faces of our next video?
We’re holding an open casting call Thursday, October 23 from 1-2 p.m. in the Educational Media recording studio. We’re looking for students who want to get in front of a camera for a few minutes, answer a few easy questions and help represent NMC in our next fundraising drive.
Questions could include, “What are you studying?” “What do you love about NMC?” “Who is your favorite professor?”
Come tell us why NMC rocks or say thank you to a scholarship donor or an awesome teacher! (more…)
Sodexo will be holding a Halloween Costume Contest on Thursday, October 30, at noon, in the West Hall Cafeteria. Top prize for the costume contest is a private dinner for four with Chef Carrie.
See you in your spooky costumes on October 30! (more…)