Success Story: Collaboration illuminates green energy solutions
December 6, 2017 Commuters hurrying home along Eighth Street these dark evenings will find a bright spot, thanks to a collaboration between NMC and Roost. NMC’s solar power trailer is lighting up the Roost prefabricated tiny home located at 444 E. Eighth,...
Success Story: UAS Alumni Lead Industry Forward
February 25, 2015 Back in 2012, as one of NMC’s pioneer students in Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Brad Kent found himself with a job offer before he’d even finished his training, and headed overseas for six-figure work as a civilian contractor. Now, as...
Student Success: From Dropout to Dean’s List
February 24, 2015 How do you transform a two-time college dropout into a Dean’s List student? Give her a bridge and a foundation. Walk her over and shore it up. In 1998 Lindsey Grice enrolled at NMC, fresh out of Traverse City Central High School and mother to a...
Success Story: Costa Rica Study Abroad Experience Marks Fifth Year
June 3, 2015 At five years old, NMC’s Costa Rica study abroad program has many age-appropriate traits: it’s thriving, energetic, and ready to explore. It’s also something most five-year-olds are not: The Central American nation from which a dozen NMC...
Success Story: Great Lakes Culinary Institute Grad Finds Sweet Home in Chicago
April 8, 2015 Every industry offers pinnacles. Entertainers aspire to Oscars and Grammys, doctors and diplomats to Nobels, and chefs to Michelin stars. Great Lakes Culinary Institute graduate Leslie Farrer has barely begun her career and has already helped collect one...
Success Story: Movie, panel discussion aims to illuminate impact of war
November 8, 2017 Since 2012, NMC has prioritized the success of student veterans on campus with a host of initiatives led by the office of Military and Veterans Services — from customized orientation to a veterans lounge to efforts to convert service into...
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: 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: Alumna doubles day care this fall
November 22, 2017 In this season of gratitude, quality child care is near the top of the list for the young families fortunate enough to have found it. This fall, one NMC alumna took a step toward filling that crucial community need by doubling her home child care...
Success Story: Stephen Siciliano Embarks On Fourth Decade At NMC
August 19, 2015 School and Scouts. Back in fifth grade, Stephen Siciliano found two things he liked and decided to stick with them. Since then, he’s climbed to the pinnacle of both worlds. He’s vice president of educational services at NMC, and not only an...
Success Story: Textbook heroes save students six figures in a single semester
October 28, 2015 NMC students pocketed an extra $137,000 this semester thanks to instructors using free and low-cost textbooks. Led by Osterlin Library director Tina Ulrich, NMC is piloting an experiment in Open Educational Resources this semester. Ten instructors...
Success Story: Alumna, Parent, Volunteer Says All Facets Of NMC Shine
May 6, 2015 First comes love, then comes marriage. Then comes a baby carriage, satisfying careers, buffalo burgers, saving money through dual enrollment, and supervising the beanbag toss. That’s Barb Mort’s story, anyway. The alumna and Traverse City...
Success Story: Alumnus now NMC’s first male nursing instructor
October 14, 2015 If it seems like there’s a lot of new faces in classrooms this semester, you’re right. Eight new full-time faculty members began teaching at NMC this fall, more than double the number of new faculty who started in 2014 and 2013. Among...
Congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest!
Congratulations to the NMC Foundation, which won the 2017 Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest and the coveted contest trophy with a two-minute video to the tune of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" (see the winning video here). The winner was announced at the NMC Holiday Party...
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...