Success Story: Service learning thrives
November 9, 2016 In addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, this semester, NMC students are collecting food donations, swinging hammers and X-raying teeth. Service learning projects, which engage the whole class in a project that also benefits the community, have...
Success Story: NMC instructors will debut courses in China
June 7, 2017 NMC officials tour the Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute campus in 2014NMC instructors will pioneer NMC courses in Chinese classrooms next week, the culmination of a partnership five years in the making. They’ll teach two Water...
Success Story: Pioneering international partnership matures
January 30, 2019 Faculty and administrators from a Chinese technical school traveled to NMC for training earlier this month, another milestone in a one-of-a-kind international partnership that is now rounding the midpoint of its first stage. NMC and the Yellow River...
Success Story: Giving global opportunities to students
December 7, 2016 With a global opportunities fund scholarship deadline coming up Dec. 16, prospective study abroad students might not have to wait for Santa to get what they want for Christmas. NMC sends more students to study abroad than any other community college...
Success Story: Great Lakes campus hosts pair of prestigious conferences
September 25, 2019 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...
Success story: Students fit in classes any which way they can
March 16, 2016 Credits in early childhood development were all that stood between Karin Cooney and advancement to the director position at Traverse City’s Angel Care child care. Yet Cooney needed to be at work Monday through Friday. NMC’s child development...
Success story: Transfer student Maddy Jenner is Dean’s Research Scholar at MSU
April 12, 2017 MSU Dean's Research Scholar Maddy JennerPhoto by Harley Seeley You might say it was chemistry when Maddy Jenner sat down in NMC instructor Blake Key’s classroom in 2014. The Traverse City West High School graduate hadn’t chosen a major...
Success Story: Legislation advances to allow community colleges to award BSNs
December 8, 2021 Legislation to allow Michigan community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees in nursing moved forward Tuesday, putting NMC another step closer to helping fill hundreds of staff shortages at Munson Medical Center, among other hospitals. The BSN...
Success Story: Grad helps shrink Michigan talent gap
May 1, 2019 It’s never too late to finish what you started. Marilyn Dear, 70, (right) will exemplify that truth Saturday, when she accepts her associate degree at NMC’s 2019 commencement ceremony, finishing what she started more than 50 years ago....
Success Story: Mother and daughter both attending NMC
December 20, 2017 Kathy and Stella Young personify the “like mother, like daughter” axiom — both petite, dark-haired, glasses-wearers who appreciate a good cup of coffee — and attend NMC together. Kathy, 47, is returning to complete a degree...
Success Story: Students’ gratitude spans a decade
November 23, 2016 Students are to NMC as turkey is to Thanksgiving — front and center. On this Thanksgiving eve, we talked to a past and present student a decade apart to find out how NMC figures in what they’re thankful for. Matt Harting, 2006 alumnus,...
Success story: Maritime alumna leads Beaver Island Boat Co.
April 6, 2016 By the calendar, spring arrived two weeks ago, but for Great Lakes Maritime Academy alumna Margo Marks, it sailed in today. This morning the Emerald Isle picked up passengers at Charlevoix for the Beaver Island Boat Co.’s first voyage of the...
Success Story: Education executive chosen as next NMC president
October 14, 2019 Nick Nissley, an education executive with 25 years experience in leadership roles, will become the 11th president of Northwestern Michigan College following unanimous approval of a two-year contract by the college’s Board of Trustees today....
Success story: Goal-setting keeps RN alumnus focused on and off the job
September 28, 2016 Nurse George Bullard has a ready reply when patients at Munson Medical Center tell him fear of falling makes them reluctant to get out of bed and move around, a standard pre-release recommendation. “ ‘You’re a piece of cake....
Success Story: Retooled Career Fair debuts
March 4, 2020 More than a year’s worth of efforts to ramp up student employment readiness and meet area employer needs will debut at a retooled Career Fair Thursday. It’s the first fair since Employment Readiness Specialist Lisa Baldyga (right) joined...