NMC is currently hosting a visit from six Chinese college administrators as part of the American Association of Community Colleges/Chinese Education Association for International Exchange (AACC/CEAIE)’s VELT program. VELT stands for Vocational Education Leadership Training, and the seven visitors are:
VELT delegate YunXia Li, Vice President of Yunnan Jiaotong College, presents NMC president Timothy J. Nelson with a gift from her school.
Their stay in Traverse City began on Sunday evening when they arrived at Cherry Capital Airport after getting one of the final flights out of New York City before hurricane Sandy made landfall. The group began their United States visit with stops in Washington, DC and New York.
Their visit at NMC will run through Friday, November 9. While here they will meet with college administrators, faculty, staff and students, Board of Trustees members, members of the NMC Foundation board, representatives from TCAPS, the Traverse City Chamber of Commerce, visit the Dennos Museum, tour all four NMC campuses and get a taste of the sights and sounds Traverse City and the surrounding area has to offer.
The mission of the VELT program is to enhance the leadership of higher vocational colleges in China by providing opportunities for the leaders to absorb new concepts and witness diverse practices in vocational education and training from other countries, to make innovation in light of practical needs of Chinese higher vocational colleges and to explore effective international cooperation. This program has sent 125 leaders to the US, Germany and Australia.
New Voluntary Insurances Available to Regular, Adjunct, and Supplemental Employees
Costs associated with an unexpected illness or accident can have a serious effect on your family’s finances. To help increase your financial protection, Northwestern Michigan College is offering eligible employees an opportunity to apply for Critical Illness and Accidental Injury insurance through CIGNA effective January 1, 2013.
Critical Illness and Accidental Injury insurance can help you pay out-of-pocket expenses not covered by traditional insurance. These plans provide a lump sum, cash payment directly to you as a result of a covered accident or serious illness. You can spend the money however you choose or use it to help pay for additional expenses such as transportation, room and board, child care, rehabilitation, and more.
This coverage is being offered to regular employees as well as adjunct and supplemental employees who have worked an average of 10 hours per week over a recent 12-month period. It does not replace regular medical insurance or cover medical service claims, but it can supplement you with cash payments should you or your enrolled dependents experience a critical illness or accidental injury. If you qualify for this insurance, CIGNA will mail more information next week to your home address.
The enrollment period for this insurance is November 9 through November 30, 2012. CIGNA will be holding informational meetings and enrollment opportunities during the following times. If you receive a letter next week that you are eligible for this benefit, please plan to attend one of these meetings. Stop by for coffee and bagels and a chance to learn more!
Friday, 11/9/12
James Beckett 217
8:30 – 9:00 am
9:30 – 10:00 am
Monday, 11/12/12
Les Biederman 35-37
8:30 – 9:00 am
9:30 – 10:00 am
Kudos to Dave Sexton. Dave went out of his way to shut off dampers and maneuver the air system so that our teeth would stop chattering due to the cold air in our office. We no longer have to wear coats all day!
Thank you, Dave.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary. Please join us in congratulating them.
| Linda Berlin | Student Financial Services Coordinator | 2 years |
| Todd Haines | Maintenance Mechanic | 8 years |
| Tony Hansen | Custodian | 14 years |
| Sandy Harrand | Custodian | 10 years |
| Debra Marx | Financial Aid Specialist | 2 years |
| Shannon Owen | Advisor – Academic/Career | 2 years |
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at http://jobs.nmc.edu. Information on internal postings has been emailed.
Steps to take differ greatly and each situation will dictate a different response. The particular circumstances of a given situation will suggest which of, and in which order, the following should occur.
Strategies to De-escalate Threatening Behavior
The following conflict resolution strategies may be helpful to de-escalate situations where an individual is exhibiting threatening or intimidating behavior and a means of quick escape is not available:
This information along with a comprehensive list of other topics can be found at: https://intranet.nmc.edu/depts/emergency-mngt-plan/
NMC’s Susan Odgers with her latest Record-Eagle column, “Hope is a vital and important part of any journey.”
Here’s a list of new books in the NMC Osterlin Library.
Title: Modernist cuisine : the art and science of cooking
Author: Myhrvold, Nathan.
Publisher: Cooking Lab,
Pub date: 2011.
6 v. :
The authors–scientists, inventors, and accomplished cooks in their own right–have created a six-volume, 2,400-page set that reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food that ranges from the otherworldly to the sublime.
Title: The best American poetry, 2012
Author: Doty, Mark.
Publisher: Scribner Poetry,
Pub date: 2012.
Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition.
Title: Don’t stop thinking about the music : the politics of songs and musicians in Presidential campaigns
Author: Schoening, Benjamin S., 1978-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Pub date: c2012.
In this insightful, erudite history of presidential campaign music, musicologist Benjamin Schoening and political scientist Eric Kasper explain how politicians use music in American presidential campaigns to convey a range of political messages.
Title: Chemical engineering : a new introduction
Author: Denn, Morton M., 1939-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Pub date: 2011.
Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity’. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering.
On Thursday, November 8, the Michigan Global Awareness Consortium offers the second presentation of its fall series.
We are pleased to welcome Professor Kerri Finlayson, who teaches anthropology and sociology at North Central Michigan College (NCMC), and Professor Ken Winter, who teaches political science and journalism at NCMC and Ferris State University.
Winter is also a former editor and publisher of the Petoskey New Review and a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Both Finlayson and Winter recently returned from Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. Their trip, sponsored by Ohio State University and the Niagara Foundation, allowed them to participate in conversations about revolutionary changes in the Turkish society. Please join us on November 8 to hear these distinguished researchers discuss the developing social, economic, religious, and political dynamics in Turkey.
The event (7:00 — 8:30 pm in the Oleson Center, Room A/B) is free and open to the public. Please see the attached poster for more details, and spread word to community members. Thank you.
FREE FRIDAY NIGHT FLICK! Student Life has partnered up with the State Theatre to offer the first Friday night Flick of every month FREE to NMC students with Student ID.
This Friday, Nov. 2, @ 10:45 pm join us at the State Theatre downtown for a FREE SURPRISE FILM! We promise, you have seen it before and you will love seeing it on the big screen!
Do you know how women won the right to vote?
Come find out Monday, Nov. 5 at 4 pm in Scholars Hall 217, where the film “Iron Jawed Angels” will be shown. Starring Hilary Swank, the HBO film is the true story of how a group of defiant young activists took the women’s suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
Sponsored by NMC Student Life, Osterlin Library, and the Department of Learning Services
Hey there. You, with the cell phone. We know you’ve got a camera on it. So let’s have a little fun.
BENEFITS OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR 2013
Don’t forget that your deadline for benefits enrollment is Friday, 11/2/12.
If you still need assistance or have questions about your benefits, HR will be on Main Campus next week to help you out:
Tuesday, 10/30/12 3:00-5:00 pm LB35-37
Wednesday, 10/31/12 8:00-10:30 am LB35-37
Just stop by – we’ll be in a computer lab to help you with your enrollment.
Save the Date ~ December 14, 2012, 4:30 to 7:00 pm for the Annual NMC Employee Holiday Party
Once again we’ll be collecting non-perishable food items for the Father Fred Food Pantry. Come enjoy some time at the Hagerty Center with your co-workers, and help our neighbors in need.
Kudos to Josh Slabaugh and Sam Foster from SLM, who adapted their schedules and worked through problems to re-image PCs in a teaching lab. It was similar to watching a pit crew – working under pressure, to make sure the lab was back in operation for the class in less than three hours.
For information on positions currently open at NMC, please visit NMC’s web page at http://jobs.nmc.edu. Information on internal postings has been emailed.
The following employees are celebrating an anniversary. Please join us in congratulating them!
| Steve Fewins | Custodian | 6 years |
| Jim Gray | Custodian | 6 years |
| Jeff Sabins | Custodian | 6 years |
| Rick Spires | Custodian | 3 years |
Friends (and would be friends) of Jim Crockett take note!
Jim will be reading from his book “Exit Wounds” at Horizon Books this weekend: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27. 4:00 p.m.
NMC faculty and staff are invited to request funding support from the 2013 NMC Barbecue for an NMC special project.
Funding proposals are due by noon on Friday, Jan, 25, 2013, and the forms and more information are available here:
Help Sodexo out by filling out a short survey where you can rate the quality and variety of the food options at NMC.
Your input is greatly appreciated.
50 Years Ago, October 1962:
1962 Cross Country team of Bob Rothermel, Larry O’Heren, Paul Steusel, Larry Cummings, Jim Frasier, and Coach Walt Beardslee.
25 Years Ago, October 1987:
From the NMC Archives at the Osterlin Library
Check out archival shots of politicians on campus, read about the 2012 Faculty Excellence winners, the latest exhibits and concerts at the Dennos and more in NMC’s most-widely circulated publication for alumni and friends.
Walk-in flu vaccines are available for $15 at Health Services Monday through Friday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Health Services is located at Biederman (LB) room 106.
The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will continue its tradition of exhibiting the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection now through December 17, with the sale of prints beginning Friday, October 19. A reception for the exhibition, hosted by the Canadian Consulate General begins at 6:00 p.m. with the sale of prints beginning at 7:00 p.m., in the Museum Center.
Sales will be conducted by a lottery, since many of the prints will be in high demand. For the first time the Dennos Museum Center has purchased two sets of pints for the sale, this will enable more collectors to buy prints. Interested buyers may receive a catalogue, price list and lottery number by calling the museum store 231-995-1586 and view the prints on line at www.dennosmuseum.org.
The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of the Co-operative, with the theme “Co-operative enterprises build a better world. “In Canada’s north, the craft shop” constructed in Cape Dorset in 1959 led to a pan-Artic co-operative development program that now supports thirty-one community co-operatives across Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. The 2012 Print Collection is dedicated to the Co-operatives.
In 1960, Bernard Rink, on behalf of the Osterlin Library, was fortunate to become the Michigan distributor of one of the sets of prints. From 1960-1983, Inuit prints were primarily acquired, for the college collection, by hosting an exhibition and sale of the Cape Dorset prints. Through this process, over 275 prints were acquired along with the simultaneous acquisition of an almost equal number of sculptures. Now noted as one of the most historically complete collections of Inuit art in United States, with over 1,400 works in the collection, the Dennos Museum Center has made the commitment to carry on the tradition of collecting Inuit prints by hosting the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection.
In addition to the Dorset Print Sale the Dennos Museum Center is the host of the Inuit Art Society Annual Conference and Meeting Friday October 19 – Sunday, October 21. The conference will feature artist Andrew Qappik, printmaker from Pangnirtung, Nunavut and Annie Qappik an Inuit community activist; plus films, lectures and an Inuit art market. Contact the Dennos Museum Store for information.
Andrew Qappik is well-known throughout the Canadian Arctic for his design of the flag for Nunavut as well as the Territory’s coat of arms and official logo. His first prints were published in the 1978 Pangnirtung annual collection when he was only 14 and they have been included in every Pangnirtung collection since. From 1978 to the present he has mastered the printing techniques of stone-cut, stencil, etching, and lithography. Andrew’s favorite subject matter includes animal life, family, and childhood play.
Proceeds from the sale will be used to purchase new work for the Dennos Museum Inuit Collection.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday’s until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1410 College Dr., Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
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