Fifth graders learn about potential career paths.

SETTING A COURSE FOR COLLEGE

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.

Solving the workforce puzzle

ALUMNI NOTES

Adult student finds success after second plunge into college

Deep water explorer

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

Archie's combines student brothers' talents

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

AVIATION INTENSIVE

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.

BALANCING TRADE-OFFS

NMC and Michigan Reconnect transform adult learner’s college experience

Inside my bag: Jennifer Yaple

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.

CALLING THE HERO IN EACH OF US

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

NMC ESPORTS

Dennos Museum Center shifts focus to collections preservation 

BEYOND THE EXHIBITIONS

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Summer 2022 Issue

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