Fifth graders learn about potential career paths.

NMC is working with other regional leaders to solve the workforce puzzle, but it’s proving tricky. Complex, interlocking factors including a skills gap, a lack of child care and attainable housing, transportation issues, broadband internet gaps and an aging population, all exacerbated by COVID-19, have created structural instability that threatens economic growth and quality of life.

2022 Outstanding Alumni Named

Adult student finds success after second plunge into college

GLCI graduate Jon Petrie serves eclectic comfort pub food with his brother Nick inside the Workshop Brewery.

NMC aviation students and instructors flew eight aircraft from Traverse City to Florida for a two-week fight training

What if the tradeoff you must make for your workday isn’t minor or temporary? Say you can’t find daycare for your kids. Or that your commute is an hour, because you can’t afford to live closer to your job. Maybe both. As our story “Solving the Workforce Puzzle” explains, northern Michigan residents confront these tradeoffs every day.

NMC and Michigan Reconnect transform adult learner’s college experience

Nick Nissley reflects on why being the president of Northwestern Michigan college is akin to being a superhero after participating in the Big Little Hero Race.

NMC'S varsity esports program is growing and is adding three new teams for 2022–23.

Dennos Museum Center shifts focus to collections preservation