Dec 1, 2013
Our NMC community hosts a great many stories: history’s lessons, tomorrow’s dreams, and tales of triumph (and of other well-intentioned ideas yielding more modest results). We grow as colleagues share these stories. We’re uplifted and energized; we...
Nov 30, 2013
I was offered free ice cream for writing 16 sentences. I would have written more for less reward, so I guess NMC and I both thought we got a good deal. It was not that hard, considering that it was only about two sentences a day. Actually, it was less than that. ...
Nov 27, 2013
The blogging project, 4x4x16, allowed me to organize my thinking into structured frames. Each frame or blog served as a movement activity . This format seemed to bridge the gap between structured writing and creative journal writing. Furthermore, I was able to...
Nov 26, 2013
I’m embarrassed to say I never did, not that I recall. Yet, I believe he taught me as much about general education outcomes as many traditional academic classes. Terry O’Banion’s keynote speech this summer at a League of Innovation conference I...
Nov 26, 2013
Over the past year, the BIRT Team (Behavioral Intervention Report Team) has been developing a procedure to address the very unfortunate occurrence of a student death within the NMC student population. This procedure is now in place to give faculty and staff some...
