Faculty Learning Communities Have Launched!

Faculty Learning Communities Have Launched!

A number of FLCs got organized January 4th at the Mid-Year Conference, and they are taking off. A Faculty Learning Community is a group of faculty, staff, and/or other interested individuals who get together to investigate a question or pursue a topic of interest....
EvaluationKIT: Checking Course Evaluation Results & More

EvaluationKIT: Checking Course Evaluation Results & More

In the fall of 2015, NMC started using EvaluationKIT for end term course evaluations. The video below contains instructions for accessing EvalutionKIT, but there are many other useful features you may find interesting. Did you know that you can see how many students...
Book Review: Mindset

Book Review: Mindset

It’s been at least five years since I first read Carol Dweck’s Mindset, but it still informs many of my interactions with my students and my own children. This book has been around a while–you hear about it at conferences, we chose it as an NMC Reads...
Thumbs Up for October Professional Development Day!

Thumbs Up for October Professional Development Day!

[slideshow_deploy id=’7527’] View pictures from the October PD Day. Thanks to everyone who attended and/or presented at this year’s October Professional Development Day. We got free admission to Dennos, made soup, connected to the Cloud, cut textbook...
Around Campus: Jane Zlojutro and Service Learning with Soup

Around Campus: Jane Zlojutro and Service Learning with Soup

When you hear “accountant” you might think boring, quiet, set in her ways, obsessive even. Accounting instructor Jane Zlojutro, however, is none of those things. She believes in taking risks and keeping class lively. “I’ll try anything,”...