February 5, 2020 Aspiring to an optometry degree, Dani Valentine anticipated many years of tuition bills. But thanks to NMC scholarships, in only her second semester she’s finding those bills substantially lower than expected. Valentine is one of a record 964...

April 13, 2022 Entrepreneurship is poised to take a giant leap forward at NMC this year, with five student teams in the final stage of developing products they’ll pitch during Northern Michigan Startup Week. The student pitch competition is one of many events...

November 23, 2021 On Monday, culinary student Michelle Carrizales brought home something besides books and her knife kit to her family in Harrietta — a Thanksgiving meal, courtesy of an NMC business class which organized and executed the meal drive as a class...

August 24, 2022 Entry-level salary: $60,000. Entry-level vacation: Six months. That’s what students who graduate with NMC’s new Culinary Arts certificate with Maritime emphasis, a specialty field with high industry demand, can expect. Approved by...

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...