Wedding bells will be ringing, ringing and ringing!
This year NSCC’s Campus Police department will have not one, not two, but THREE wedding celebrations taking place!
Exchanging vows will be, l-r: Sergeant Joseph Barnes and his fiancé Arianna Murphy in July, Officer Allyssa MacMillan and her fiancé Michael Lima in November and Corporal Ryan Devaney and his fiancé Samantha Upton in August.
Congratulations to all!
Digital Course Material Presentation
What if ALL students showed up to the first day of classes with immediate access to their course
materials at the lowest possible price? We believe this allows for a more productive
classroom experience for faculty and their students.
Does this sound too good to be true??
To learn how this is possible! Please join us on
April 24th at 2:15pm
Video Conference Rooms listed below:
Danvers Health Professions Building, room DH-105
Lynn McGee Building, room LS-311
NSCC Professors John Bosco and Ulises Arcos-Castrejon will be presenting on their personal experiences with this innovative course materials option.
Coffee and cookies will be served on both campuses.
Co-sponsored by McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education & the NSCC Campus Stores
Faculty and Staff Commencement Ticketing Information
Are you attending the NSCC 53rd Commencement Ceremony? If so, you will need a ticket if you are marching in the procession or will be part of the general audience. You will not need a ticket if you are an event staff member. To reserve a ticket, go to www.nscctickets.com.
IMPORTANT 53rd Commencement Ceremony Information:
The 53rd Commencement Ceremony will be Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Salem State University.
If you will be attending the ceremony, please follow the guidelines below to see if
you need to reserve a ticket online:
- Faculty and staff who are marching only will need to reserve a “Faculty/Staff Marching” ticket online. This will help us determine the number of seats to allocate on the floor. You will be asked to present a ticket at the door.
- Adjunct faculty and staff who would like to attend the ceremony as part of the general audience will need to reserve a “Faculty/Staff - General Audience” ticket and present a ticket to gain entry to the arena.
- Faculty and staff who sign up to work as an event staff will not be required to reserve a ticket. They will already be accounted for. We are seeking support from all who are able. To sign up as an event staff, please click here.
- Faculty and staff are asked to wait until after the ceremony ends to meet with graduates. Graduates and marching faculty and staff will walk to the outside Athletic Field (weather permitting) after the ceremony ends, grouped according to Academic Division. There you can meet with the graduates to congratulate them and take pictures.
Please visit www.nscctickets.com to reserve your ticket.
For questions, please contact commencement@northshore.edu or 978-762-4000 ext. 6686.
"Pause With Paws" for End-of-the-Semester Stress Relief at the Library!
The dogs will be available for some much needed stress relief during this hectic time of the year. Please encourage students, and anyone frazzled during this busy time of the semester, to take a "Pause with Paws." All are welcome!
- We’re welcoming back the Great Danes from The Service Dog Project at the Lynn Campus Library on Wednesday, April 24th from 10:30 - 12.
- The Danvers Campus Library will be hosting Mocha & Josie from Perfect Paws on Thursday, April 25th from 9:30 - 12.
Final Exam Schedule - Spring 2019
The Spring 2019 Final Exam Schedule is now available online. Final Exams take place
May 8-10.
View the Final Exam Schedule >
2019 Governance Award
Nominations are being accepted for the 2019 Governance Award. This award was established to recognize a governance participant who has demonstrated commitment to the work of college governance. The deadline for nominations is April 26, 2019. Please see the link below for further details:
Nomination for NSCC Governance Award >
Satisfy your sweet tooth at NSCC’s Beacon Café Bakery!
Pain Au Chocolat! Lemon Sable Cookies! Maple Panna Cotta! Chocolate Mousse Domes! All so scrumptious and made by our Baking and Pastry Program students who are instructed by our own celebrity Chef Douglas Phillips, FoodNetwork's 2018 Holiday Baking Champion!
The Bakery at NSCC’s Beacon Café will be offering freshly made, student-prepared baked goods on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9a.m.-1p.m., March 27-May 2. Breakfast pastries will be ready by 9a.m. and desserts will be out at 11a.m. Patrons have the option of take-out or sit and enjoy. Coffee, tea and cold beverages will also be available. The format is a self-serve, suggested donation setup, with a cash box so cash only, please.
NSCC's Beacon Cafe Bakery is located at 30 Log Bridge Road, Middleton, building 100. Questions? Contact Chef Douglas Phillips at dphillip@northshore.edu
Annual Enrollment is April 3 – May 1 for Changes Effective July 1, 2019
The annual open enrollment time is here! Please click on the link and read the 2019-2020 Benefit Overview to learn what’s new for the coming year and rate changes for July 1, 2019. If you would like a hard copy of the overview, please stop by the HR/Payroll office in DB-341 or contact Jenn Chavez at x4106. If you have questions about health plans and any other benefits, please contact the carriers directly. Contact information is located on p.15 of the overview.
Mark the Date! If you are making any changes to your benefits, completed GIC enrollment forms are due to Jenn Chavez in DB-341 no later than Wednesday, May 1, 2019.
If you are not making any changes, an enrollment form does not need to be completed.
Health Plans
- The GIC offers 11 health plan options. You may choose between Broad, Regional, and Limited Network plans. Where you live determines which health insurance product you may enroll in – see the locator map on p.4 of the Benefit Decision Guide. Click here for a GIC Enrollment/Change Form (Form-1).
- Keep in mind - Once you choose a health plan, you cannot change plans during the year, unless you move out of the plan’s service area, or experience a qualifying event (i.e., marriage/divorce, birth of a child, involuntary loss of other coverage, retiring). If your doctor or hospital leaves your health plan, you must find a new participating provider in your chosen plan.
- You can also apply for the health insurance buy-out option if you have access to non-GIC health insurance through your spouse or another employer-sponsored product.
Benefit Strategies is the New Administrator for the GIC's Flexible Spending Accounts!
- ASIFlex will no longer be our FSA administrator as of July 1, 2019.
- Please visit www.benstrat.com/gic-fsa/ for information and instructions on how to enroll as a new participant to a FSA or to re-enroll as a current or former participant
- All new enrollments and re-enrollments are done online. Printed confirmations are no longer submitted to HR.
REMINDER: EMPLOYEES MUST RE-ENROLL IN THE HEALTH CARE SPENDING ACCOUNT AND/OR THE DEPENDENT CARE ACCOUNT EVERY YEAR TO PARTICIPATE! ENROLLMENTS ARE NOT CARRIED OVER YEAR TO YEAR. ENROLLMENTS MUST BE COMPLETED BY MAY 1.
Long Term Disability (LTD) Special Enrollment Period April 3– June 14
- Employees not currently enrolled in the Long Term Disability plan may enroll during a special enrollment period from April 3 to June 14 for an October 1, 2019 effective date without providing evidence of insurability, as long as they have not been previously declined.
- Please click here for more information and to get a “LTD Insurance Open Enrollment Form”.
- If you wish to enroll, completed special enrollment forms must be submitted to Jenn Chavez in HR no later than Friday June 14th.
Please feel free to contact Jenn Chavez at x4106 or Peter Tummino at x5558 with any questions.
Open Jobs
Administrative
Facilities Operations Manager
Vice President of Student Affairs
Clerical/Office Support
PT Clerical Assistant, Student Financial Services, Danvers Campus
PT Laboratory Technician, Veterinary Technology Program
Faculty
Adjunct Faculty, Designing for Web
Adjunct Faculty, Medical Coding, Summer 2019
Adjunct Faculty, Portuguese, Fall 2019
FT Faculty (Program Coordinator), Funeral Services Program, Fall 2019
FT Faculty (Program Coordinator), Paralegal Program, Fall 2019
FT Faculty, Computer Science, Fall 2019
FT Faculty, Nurse Education (Foundations of Nursing & Maternal/Child Health), Fall
2019
FT Faculty, Occupational Therapy Assistant (Associate Degree), Fall 2019
PT Instructor, Drafting for Interior Design
Professional
Coordinator of Financial Aid
Senior Financial Aid Counselor, Lynn Campus
Feel free to contact Kim Bevan at x5572 for more information.
Please join the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation in wishing David Houle all the best in his upcoming retirement.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Danvers Campus, DB301
Stop by anytime!
-Andrea Milligan, Director, CLTI
20 Minute Online Professional Development
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets.
For the week of April 15th – What 5 play-based activities can I use to create an active, learning-centered class?
Directions for Accessing the Link to the Presentation and Supplemental Materials
- Select the URL link below to access the presentation and to print the supplemental materials. (You may also copy and paste the URL into your browser’s address bar.)
- https://sites.google.com/a/northshore.edu/mmm/
New presentations go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. The complete spring schedule for Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2019/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.
The series is being brought to you by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) – we would appreciate your input!
-Andrea Milligan: amilligan@northshore.edu
WHAT A GREAT WAY TO START YOUR WEEK!!
Application to Graduate Deadlines
(Please share with your students)
Spring 2019 Graduates:
If you are completing your degree at the end of the Spring semester your application
to graduate is due no later than April 30, 2019.*
Summer 2019 Graduates
Summer term is from May 20 – August 17, 2019.
Students completing their degree at the end Summer Session I: May 20 – June 29, 2019.
Your application to graduate is due on June 1, 2019. *
Students completing their degree at the end of Summer Session II or on August 17,
2019.
Your application is due on August 1, 2019. **
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* Applications to graduate are due by March 7, 2019 to ensure name in the May 2019 commencement booklet.
** If you are completing your degree in August 2019, you are invited to take part in the May 2020 Commencement Ceremony. For more information, please contact the commencement team at commencement@northshore.edu**
Play the Weekly Logic Puzzle Challenge – A Friendly Competition Among Faculty, Staff
and Students
Week #9 solution Week #9 winners
The Logic Problem of the Week is a fun challenge open to all. Everyone is invited and encouraged to try these fun problems. Click here or stop by the bulletin boards in either Danvers (Berry reception desk) or Lynn (across from LE 303) to see the instructions and the poster each Friday at Noon. You can also join the NSCC Mathematics Department Facebook page to see the problem. Solutions are due every Thursday at Noon. All solutions should be emailed to either aoshea@northshore.edu or jgambino@northshore.edu and must have your first name, last name and class or department. If you have any questions, please contact us at those email addresses.
The Logic Problem of the Week is for anyone who is looking for a fun challenge. Those submitting correct solutions will earn points towards a prize at the end of the semester. First correct submission - 10 pts, 2nd correct submission - 9 pts, 3rd correct submission – 8pts, etc. down to 1 pt for the 10th correct solution. Student and faculty contests are separate. Puzzles will vary in difficulty level and style.
Good luck!
- Professor John Gambino and Professor Anne O'Shea, Math Department
Climate Change Survey
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(Climate, Environment and Society class, spring 2019)
Why? To help us survey student/faculty stance on climate change.
When? April 16th is the last day to submit entries!
Purpose? To raise awareness of Climate change , and the dire need to mitigate human
intervention and the inevitable consequences that follow
Any questions contact:
Finnbertson@gmail.com or lines01@northsore.edu
Do you know a student looking for a summer part-time gig that doesn't require being outdoors?
Student hoping to grow as a leader outside the classroom setting?
HAVE THEM APPLY TO BE AN ORIENTATION LEADER!!!
Click this link to apply! Applications due April 22nd!
- 15-20 hours per week
- Summer Session II (July/August)
- Not a work-study position
- Must be a continuing student for Fall 2019 or a May/June 2019 graduate
Email Brian Falter at bfalter@northshore.edu for any details or questions.
53rd Annual Commencement Ceremony - Call for Event Staff!
NSCC's 53rd Commencement ceremony is Thursday, May 23, 2019 at Salem State University.
The Commencement Committee is seeking event staff to help the event run smoothly.
We welcome all who can assist! Please note, there are several opportunities to contribute and still walk in the ceremony, if you so choose. This is a great opportunity for staff and/or faculty. Please speak with your supervisor regarding specific departmental needs during the day, your potential participation, and approval to work at the event.
Sign up as an Event Staff member at the Commencement Ceremony. This form will be accessible until Friday, May 10, 2019.
Questions can be directed to commencement@northshore.edu or 978-762-4000 ext. 6686
FAFSA Fridays
Please share this information with your staff and help us promote FAFSA Fridays.
SFS will be offering FAFSA assistance with our FAFSA Fridays in April. We will be encouraging students to complete their 2019/2020 FAFSA by the May 1st priority deadline. Staff will be available in Danvers and Lynn from 10-2.
-Susan Sullivan, Executive Director of Financial Aid
Upcoming Events
April 17 – Spark Launch
April 18 – Law Day Lecture, Victims Rights and Restorative Justice
NSCC invites the college community and the public to its annual
Free Law Day Lecture
Thursday, April 18
7:30 – 9 am
Danvers Campus, DS119
Teleconferenced in Lynn Campus Cafeteria
The lecture, sponsored by NSCC’s Paralegal and Criminal Justice Departments, will be held at the Danvers Campus, One Ferncroft Road, Math & Science building, room DS119 and will be teleconferenced to NSCC’s Lynn Campus cafeteria, 300 Broad Street.
This year’s Law Day topic is Victims Rights and Restorative Justice. Keynote speaker, Karen Baratta, Concord Prison Outreach, has pursued her commitment to civil rights throughout her twenty-year professional career as a manager, mediator and investigator in several local, state and federal government agencies. She chairs the Board of Directors of Concord Prison Outreach (CPO) the oldest volunteer-driven prison education program in Massachusetts. CPO works cooperatively with the Massachusetts Department of Correction. With their guidance, CPO offers educational programs that build skills and support personal growth for life in prison and beyond.
The lecture is free and open to the public but seating is limited. For more information or to reserve your seat, contact Ann Koshivas, Criminal Justice Program, 978-762-4000, ext. 5418, akoshiva@northshore.edu.
April 18 - Film Fighting
English Professors Cari Keebaugh and Nicki Buscemi will “duke it out” in a stage combat demonstration of film fighting techniques.
Thursday, April 18, 11 a.m., Lynn Campus, LE305
Questions? Contact ckeebaug@northshore.edu, nbuscemi@northhsore.edu
April 22 & 23
2019 NSCC Visiting Writer: Oompa
Oompa is a nationally acclaimed, Roxbury-born slam poet, hip-hop artist, and self-described
"hood, queer, black, womynist, orphan, sister, friend, and teacher." She is the winner
of the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam and a finalist at the 2017 National Poetry
Slam. She has been featured in magazines such as The Huffington Post and DigBoston and has appeared at colleges such as Boston University, Boston College, and the Berklee
College of Music.
You can find out more about Oompa on her website oompoutloud.com, including sample audio and videos.
This year's event will take place on the
- LYNN CAMPUS: Monday, April 22, at 9:30 and 11:00 am in the President's Board Room in the new building (LS328)
- DANVERS CAMPUS: Tuesday, April 23, 9:30 and 11:00 am in the library
Please direct any questions to John Zamparelli at jzampare@northshore.edu.
April 24th & 25th-Screening of The Human Element
A documentary exploring the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate
change.
Sponsored by Environmental Club as part of Climate Awareness Month. Open to all campus members. Faculty encouraged to bring classes.
Lynn - Wednesday, April 24th @ 2:30 pm in LE 203
Danvers - Thursday, April 25th @ 11:00 am in DH 105
For more information, contact Susan Downey at sdowney@northshore.edu
April 24 & 25th –
The Intersection Between Human and Animal Rights
The topic for the 42nd Forum on Tolerance is the Intersection of Human and Animal Rights (Flyer attached). The Danvers Forum
will be on Wednesday, April 24th from 11 - 1:45 in DS 106B. The Lynn Forum will be
from 8:30 - 12:30 on Thursday April 25th in the Lynn Gym.
Please consider bringing your classes. The Forum is structured around class meeting times and the schedule is below:
Danvers
Wednesday April 24th
From 11-1:45
DS 106 B
11:00 - 12:15: Viewing of the film The Last Pig and student-lead discussion
12:30 - 1:45: Viewing of the film The Last Pig and student-lead discussion
Lynn
Thursday, April 25th
From 8:30 - 12:30
Lynn Gym
Four confirmed speakers:
8:30 - 9:30: Coffee and conversation
9:30 - 10: 45
- Mike Keiley, Director of Drop-In Center at the MSPCA in Boston, Methuen, and the Cape, Animal Tech faculty at NSCC
- Stephanie Harris, Massachusetts Representative for the Humane Society of the United States
11:00 - 12:30
- Lynne Snierson, journalist; involved in equine rescue/ equine therapy
- Professor Diane M. Sullivan, Massachusetts School of Law
Feel free to text or email with questions!
- Laurie (508) 847-6972
Volunteers Needed for Earth Fest 2019, April 27
North Shore Community College (NSCC) invites North Shore area residents and friends to join in
Earth Fest 2019 at Lynn Woods
Saturday, April 27
8:30 am to noon
The free event is from 8:30 a.m. to noon, rain or shine, at the Lynn Woods Reservation, Pennybrook Road entrance.
Featured will be the annual Lynn Woods spring cleanup. Free pizza and beverages will be served at noon to all those who help with the cleanup. In addition, there will be live music and a reptile show.
Lynn Woods Reservation is the second largest municipal park in the United States and is considered on a national level to be a significant natural public recreational resource. Founded in 1881, the 2,200-acre forest park has more than 30 miles of trails through diverse terrain and beautiful scenery. It encompasses nearly one-fifth of the entire land area of Lynn.
For further information on the event or to volunteer, contact Jacob Rockwell at jrockwel@northsore.edu
Volunteers NEEDED for upcoming NSCC Mobile Markets
Thank you to all the volunteers who help set up, distribute food and clean up. The
success of the mobile markets would not be possible without our volunteers! The schedule
of upcoming winter/spring mobile markets on both the Lynn and Danvers Campuses may
be found here. Volunteers are needed! If you are able to stop by and volunteer at any of the markets, please check out
the volunteer page.
Thank you for your continued support!!
--Amanda Dooling, Director of Student Engagement
Treat yourself to some pampering!
Spring is here – treat yourself to some pampering! Manicures, pedicures, haircuts and facials are just some of the services provided by NSCC Cosmetology students, all at incredibly reasonable prices.
NSCC’s student-run, instructor-supervised salon will be open this spring, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 9am-12:30 p.m. No appointment necessary but call ahead appreciated. (chemical services must be started by 10:30a.m.)
Note: FREE salon services are offered to all North Shore First Responders.
The salon is located in the North Shore Business Center, Building 100, 30 Log Bridge Road, Middleton, MA. For more information, call 978-762-4000 x1516.
Worthy Causes
NAMIWalks Massachusetts – One in five people in Massachusetts is affected by a mental health condition. NAMIWalks Massachusetts brings together people diagnosed with mental health conditions, their families, and friends, clinicians and other individuals in the mental health community to raise funds, combat stigma and promote awareness of mental health.
We invite you to join our team, “Greater NS Team Fierce,” as we walk to raise awareness for those dealing with mental health conditions. If you are unable to join our walk but would like to support us with a donation, your contribution of any amount is deeply appreciated.
We are also holding a fundraiser on Friday, May 17 at the Elks in Beverly. More information may be found here.
Thank you for your consideration and for your support!
- Sheila Girard, Admissions & Recruitment, shepowgir45@gmail.com and Robert Girard, Facilities