Student News & Events

September 28, 2022 As a first-generation college student attending NMC, Alex Walsh had a lot of company. As an NMC graduate, he became one of a rarified few who transfer to an Ivy League college. Now, with his 2022 Harvard University diploma adorning the wall of...

January 20, 2021 Comprehensive student support and the value of community colleges within higher education overall are topics NMC faculty and staff believe might come up during dinner conversation in the White House starting today. Photo courtesy NOVA Community...

September 12 2018 In another effort to remove barriers to student success, NMC this week launched Transfer Tuesdays, a drop-in advising opportunity aimed at the 25 percent of full-time students who will start their degree path here, but finish elsewhere. “Our...

June 12, 2019 As a pastry chef, petit fours and artisan breads are Les Eckert’s favorite things to bake, but as the new director of the Great Lakes Culinary Institute, she expects to focus on numbers and people. Eckert, 51, (right) began her tenure at GLCI last...

August 30, 2017 North Hall ribbon cutting ceremonyNMC’s fall semester will be bookended by celebrations of new campus facilities, with last week’s opening of the North Hall residence hall and a grand re-opening of an expanded Dennos Museum Center targeted...

November 20, 2019 Updates to NMC’s longstanding engineering partnership with Michigan Technological University designed to increase student success and reduce costs will receive statewide recognition this week. Faculty members Jerry Dobek (seated) Jay Smith...

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,...

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...

February 22, 2017 NMC math instructor Mary Burget and student Lauren HayesDriven to catch the Soviets in the space race of the 1950 and '60s, black female NASA mathematicians solved the problem of putting astronauts into orbit, a story told in Hidden Figures,...

November 27, 2018 On Tuesday afternoon, Alex Bernier toured the length and breadth of Africa, from Egypt’s pyramids to the east-central Serengeti renowned for wildlife to South Africa’s Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison. And he...

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...

April 8, 2020 Over the last few months, in between her nursing shifts in a Kalamazoo hospital’s medical intensive care unit, Karissa Havens (right) followed the worsening COVID-19 epidemic as it swept from China to Europe to the United States. The Traverse...

June 13, 2018 Becky TranchellCulinary students in a new baking certificate program will cap off their studies in delicious fashion, opening the revamped Cafe Lobdell’s at the Great Lakes campus June 19. Customers can enjoy coffee, pastries and breads three...

March 7, 2018 Thirty years ago, newly-named Traverse City Area Chamber of Commerce chairman Kevin Schlueter was preparing to graduate from NMC. Now, as he embarks on his latest leadership challenge, he continues to credit the college and hopes to illuminate the...

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...