May 4th from 12:00 - 1:30 NMC has eight active learning communities this year where faculty and staff have explored different areas of interest. These include Collaboration for Universal Design, E-Portfolios, Coaching, New Faculty, Belonging, Student Veterans in...
Welcome back from spring break. As we near the end of the semester, I wanted to take a little time and update you on a few assessment-related pieces of news. First, we have received comments on our report to the Higher Learning Commission, and they were very positive....
Pick up your spring semester Global Literature Reading Group book at the library before break! We will be reading and discussing A House Without Windows, by Nadia Hashimi on Friday, April 20, 2018. Copies available for $5. Stop by the library or contact Tina Ulrich...
Earlier this semester, the Educational Technology department started a new series called Winter Meltdowns. Each Meltdown episode is approximately 10 minutes long and features instructors using technology to help their teaching. We have held three meltdowns so...
Over 20 university representatives will be on NMC’s campus on Tuesday, March 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to talk with students, staff and faculty about their programs and the transfer process. The university representatives will be Located in: Health/Science...
Metacognition means, simply, thinking about one’s thinking and realizing if you are comprehending what you are thinking. Modeling thinking is one metacognitive approach to instruction that Buehl (2014) found increases student’s abilities to transfer or adapt their...
A survey of Washington state's community and technical colleges was completed at the end of 2017 regarding what college students believe is a reasonable cost for course materials. The data collected led to 6 findings recently published by the SBCTC and WACTCSA....
Educational Media Technologies is excited to welcome Chris Hanna to our team! Chris has joined us as the Digital Media Systems Technician. He and his family have lived in Traverse City for the last sixteen years after living in Chicago for the early part of his adult...
Hello NMC Faculty and Staff! The Advising team and our Student Success team are working to finalize the details for this year’s Career and Employment Fair! We have over 70 businesses signed up so far, and they are hopeful to get a wide range of applicants to learn...