Success Story: Culinary alumnus carves career path at retail market
February 8, 2017 Consider the ideal working conditions for a chef, and Randy Weed has it all: Recipe development responsibility, gigantic pantry full of top-quality ingredients, and satisfied, often repeat customers. The twist is that Weed wields his talents in the...
Success story: NMC students increasingly tap state scholarships
October 12, 2022 The ranks of adult learners attending NMC on the Michigan Reconnect scholarship more than doubled this fall, as the program that seeks to improve the state’s talent pipeline surpassed the $500,000 mark in funds awarded locally. Meanwhile, a new...
Success story: TC Central student tastes confidence in culinary program
January 6, 2016 When Aiden Voss graduates from Traverse City Central High School in June, she’ll simultaneously be just a few credits shy of an NMC culinary degree, thanks to dual enrollment. The 18-year-old also discovered something even more valuable than the...
Success Stories from NMC
NMC students both past and present, along with faculty, staff and alumni, are achieving success in the classroom and their chosen fields. This section showcases just a few of those successes. Sign up for NMC Now below to get these stories (plus upcoming campus...
Success Story: Experiential learning, live from downtown
February 7, 2018 For NMC Audio Technology students, Picnic at the Opera House is anything but. Under the direction of instructor Jonah Powell (right, foreground), 20-some students are responsible for all set-up and tear-down, changing the stage between each of the...
Success Story: Skilled trades to transfer, grads showcase NMC’s breadth
April 27, 2022 Commencement 2022 means a quadruple celebration for the Myers-Rockwood family, whose four NMC graduates also illustrate the breadth of learning opportunities at the college. Bridget Bernhard, David Myers and Olivia RockwoodOn May 7, the blended Traverse...
Success Story: White Pine Press alumnus is Michigan’s Journalist of the Year
April 25, 2018 Reporter Garret Ellison atop the Mackinac BridgeMLive environmental reporter Garret Ellison, a 2006 NMC graduate, has been named the 2017 Michigan Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association. Ellison, 35, was cited for his “watchdog...
Success Story: Public phase of $35 million campaign opens
October 9, 2019 NMC today kicked off the public phase of the most ambitious fundraising initiative in its history. Be What’s Possible, the Campaign for NMC, has a goal of raising $35 million in four priority areas. Eighty percent, or $28 million, has already...
Success Story: NMC-Traverse House partnership wins award
February 27, 2019 Brenda Clifton and Scott WilliamsDishwasher is not a job that lands on many top-ten career lists, meaning many hospitality employers, including NMC’s Hagerty Center, struggle to find them. But for someone like Brenda Clifton, it can be...
Success Story: Harbor improvements, fuel funds on deck
April 11, 2018 When your summer trip requires putting 98,000 gallons in the tank, you pay attention to fuel prices. NMC’s Great Lakes Maritime Academy recently learned that it can expect full reimbursement of an estimated $196,000 fuel bill for the T/S State of...
Success Story: Record high dollars awarded to record number of recipients
February 5, 2020 Aspiring to an optometry degree, Dani Valentine anticipated many years of tuition bills. But thanks to NMC scholarships, in only her second semester she’s finding those bills substantially lower than expected. Valentine is one of a record 964...
Success Story: Harnessing entrepreneurial energy
April 13, 2022 Entrepreneurship is poised to take a giant leap forward at NMC this year, with five student teams in the final stage of developing products they’ll pitch during Northern Michigan Startup Week. The student pitch competition is one of many events...
Success Story: Food pantry, Thanksgiving meal project help fill rising demand
November 23, 2021 On Monday, culinary student Michelle Carrizales brought home something besides books and her knife kit to her family in Harrietta — a Thanksgiving meal, courtesy of an NMC business class which organized and executed the meal drive as a class...
Success Story: Renovation to Innovation is underway
August 29 2018 The Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center, among NMC’s most transformative capital projects, will take a major stride forward this semester when the old building is demolished. Following a multi-year planning process begun after state matching funds...
Success story: New specialty certificate will fill high industry demand
August 24, 2022 Entry-level salary: $60,000. Entry-level vacation: Six months. That’s what students who graduate with NMC’s new Culinary Arts certificate with Maritime emphasis, a specialty field with high industry demand, can expect. Approved by...