Success story: Gamification of an anatomy class
September 14, 2016 It was just another day in Anatomy and Physiology class, until instructor Nick Roster told students working in groups that the first group to finish a task would win five points. The effect was immediate and obvious. Students leaned in across the...
Success Story: Search firm selected as Nelson sets his priorities for final year
January 16, 2019 NMC's board of trustees: Front row: Rachel A. Johnson, Jane T. McNabb; middle row: K. Ross Childs, Michael Estes, Kennard R. Weaver; back row: Douglas S. Bishop, Chris M. BottFine-tuning the qualities desired in NMC’s next president with input...
Success Story: Students take on Civil War memorials restoration
October 11, 2017 NMC welding students Andrew DuBois and Michael StolarczykSome NMC welding students are getting a dose of American history on top of this semester’s classes. They’re helping to restore Civil War markers placed on the graves of Union Army...
Success Story: Cherry Queen Finalist Aims For Scholarship
June 17, 2015 When the National Cherry Queen is crowned next month, Hannah Beaudry will be hoping the luck of the pine tree is on her side. The NMC student is one of four finalists vying for the 2015 crown. If she wins, Beaudry, 19, will become the fifth queen within...
Success Story: Debt-Free Degrees
April 22, 2015 At just 21 years old, Traverse City native Nick Alpers has checked off a lot of life’s milestones already. He’s earned his bachelor’s degree, married, and is working full-time in his chosen field of mechanical engineering. The 2012 NMC...
Success Story: NMC student seeks to lead international honor society
Adult learner champions inclusion of nontraditional students April 7, 2021 This Saturday, Amber Marsh will find out if she’ll spend the next year as a vice-president of an organization seeking to advance the success of more than 200,000 community college...
Success Story: Making a semi-truck size dent in food insecurity
November 13, 2018 The spirit of Thanksgiving and the holidays is extending out from campus to the community, with several charitable projects now underway. There’s still time to pay it forward with a donation of food or a warm jacket, and mark your calendar to...
Success Story: Dennos To Debut New Galleries As It Turns Quarter-Century Mark
September 15, 2015 Record donation makes expansion possible It was time for something big, Diana and Richard Milock decided. NMC today announced the largest single gift by living donors in college history, a $2 million gift to expand the Dennos Museum Center. That...
Success Story: NMC food pantry opens next week
October 25, 2017 A new food pantry is set to open on campus next week, a local step toward addressing the food insecurity that college students face nationwide. The NMC Food Pantry operates out of the basement of the Osterlin Building and is available to all active...
Success Story: Hanging on through the 2015 growing season
November 25, 2015 Pop quiz: In your first year as a professional farm manager, the challenge Mother Nature most likely will throw at you is: A bitter cold, vine-damaging winter A late May frost, just as buds are forming in cherry and apple orchards and on grapevines...
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...