February 19, 2020 Ten years ago, Traverse City started Restaurant Week with 18 restaurants offering special menus. Fifteen years ago, NMC’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute moved to brand-new bayfront facilities, including Lobdell’s Teaching Restaurant. Ten...

September 15, 2021 Edris Fana speaks at the 2016 NMC CommencementLast month, 2016 NMC graduate Edris Fana expected to see his parents for the first time in eight years, when they were to travel from Kabul, Afghanistan to Traverse City for his wedding to fellow alumna...

September 27, 2017 NMC Aviation, already celebrating its 50th anniversary, notched another notable accomplishment this fall – the largest number of new female students ever. The six women, from Michigan to Indiana to Alaska, more than double Aviation’s...

February 9, 2022 Asked to name notable Black Americans, and a few relatively contemporary figures usually come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey. The Voices Project, a new experiential learning project in conjunction with NMC’s Embrace...

September 2, 2020 Kyle Korson gets food at the Hawk Owl CaféMasked students, faculty and staff members returned to a campus transformed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as completely overhauled fall classes began last week in new instruction formats, with...

April 21, 2021 Amid abundant challenges, bright spots and silver linings are still plentiful as NMC’s first full academic year under COVID-19 restrictions draws to a close. Recapping the challenges: For safety, about 85 percent of NMC’s classes were...

May 10, 2017 Samantha Oleson at the NMC Barbecue in 2007For many northern Michigan residents, the annual NMC Barbecue is a spring tradition. For Samantha Oleson, it goes back a lifetime. The 22-year-old is part of the fourth generation of the Oleson family to carry on...

September 16, 2020 This fall NMC celebrates the ten-year anniversary of its Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) program, a foresighted curricular addition that has helped diversify northern Michigan’s economy. In 2010, UAS, also known as drones, were chiefly a...

August 28, 2019 Add up an NMC associate degree, a thin credit history, a stint in the Navy and a love of travel and you get Harvard University sophomore Alex Walsh (NMC 2012), who will start classes in Cambridge, Mass. next week. He’s one of just a dozen...

May 15, 2019 Patrons enjoying the traditional buffalo burger and kids games might also notice a giant crane and the steel beamed-frame of a rising second story on the Timothy J. Nelson Innovation Center at the annual NMC Barbecue this Sunday. Begun last fall, the West...

January 22, 2018 NMC success coach Leeann Fountain and student Taylor ByersWhen Taylor Byers returned to NMC last fall, four years after she last attended, she knew she had to be a different kind of student. But she didn’t seek help from an academic adviser, or...

March 17, 2021 For more than three decades, Traverse City resident Dick Grout (right) has pushed NMC’s mission to provide lifelong learning opportunities to its outer limits. The 100-year-old World War II veteran’s Extended Education class records go back...

February 17, 2021 After investing more than 10 years in pursuit of her associate degree, the pandemic almost brought psychology student Brandee Sasser-Drone (left) to her breaking point, but federal aid distributed by NMC has kept her on track to graduate this...

December 16, 2015 Inuit art lovers Dudley and Barb Smith know their collection intimately. There’s the walrus sculpture in the foyer of their Suttons Bay home, the one they turn around when their youngest grandson visits, so his two-year-old fingers stay safe...

May 11, 2022 NMC resumes its place as a leader in short-term study abroad experiences, with 50 students from multiple academic areas traveling to the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Colombia this spring. NMC study abroad students in Parma, ItalyNMC students...