Student News & Events

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...