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Posted: Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 The next meeting of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees will take place Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. in the Edminster Student Union Building, Driftwood Bay Room, on the NIC main campus in Coeur d’Alene. This meeting is a business meeting of the Board Trustees and the NIC Administration. The public may submit written comment ...
Posted: Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 Spring semester is underway and NIC Athletics is hard at work developing its student athletes within the nine sports teams, while following the protocols set in place to provide the healthiest and safest environment possible. More than 150 student athletes perform daily health screenings and practice protocols required by our ...
Posted: Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 Continuing the tradition of scholarly activity outside the classroom, the SBS division office would like to acknowledge the following faculty members for their work in 2020. Dr. Victor Begay coauthored article "Regenerating Teacher Education Programs with Indigenous Knowledge in Idaho" was published in Northwest Journal of Teacher ...
Posted: Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 The North Idaho College Board of Trustees has scheduled a special meeting for Feb. 10, 2021 at 5 p.m. Physical attendance by the public will be limited in accordance with the governor’s modified Stage 3 of the Idaho Rebounds plan and the NIC Rebounds operations guidelines. To ensure appropriate physical distancing, the allowable ...
Posted: Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 North Idaho College Head Start is one of a host of Idaho education programs featured in the newest episode of the Idaho Public Television documentary series “Resilient Idaho: Hope Lives Here.” The latest episode airs Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. PST on Idaho Public Television. It will also be available the same day On Demand ...
Posted: Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 The Kennedy Center American Community Theater Festival Region 7 has awarded the Horace Robinson/Jack Watson Award to NIC Professor of Theatre and Theatre Director Joe Jacoby. This award goes to a faculty member in KCACTF Region 7 who shows dedication and support for their students above and beyond the normal duties of college faculty. ...
Posted: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 “Pictures of Poets” will be on display through March 26 in the Corner Gallery in Boswell Hall on the North Idaho College campus in Coeur d’Alene. The poets pictured here, clockwise from the top left, are Mark Anderson, M. L. Smoker, Robert Pinsky and Claudia Castro Luna. In order to listen to the poets read their ...
Posted: Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 Culinary arts students prepare a dish in the program's kitchen at NIC. The Beachside Bistro, a new project being planned at North Idaho College, will create a fusion of culinary arts education and entrepreneurship training wrapped in a student-managed business. The bistro, a mobile, summer food service operation, will be located near ...
Posted: Friday, Jan. 29, 2021 Recent public comments have spotlighted profound and serious disagreements among the Trustees of North Idaho College concerning governance issues at the college. The board of trustees recently met with President MacLennan to address these conflicts. The trustees have all committed to find an appropriate path forward to put the college ...
Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 The North Idaho College Board of Trustees meeting previously noticed and scheduled for Jan. 27, 2021 will not take place as scheduled, and the next regular monthly meeting will take place in February. The Board of Trustees will hold an Executive Session Special Meeting on Jan. 27, 2021. The agenda can be viewed here .
Posted: Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 The next meeting of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees has been rescheduled to take place Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. This meeting had been previously scheduled to occur earlier in the week. North Idaho College is in a Modified STAGE 2 of the governor’s Idaho Rebounds Plan. This limits the capacity in the meeting room. To ...
Posted: Friday, Dec. 18, 2020 Canned food and other nonperishable food items line the shelves of the North Idaho College Food Pantry. Helping students achieve success goes beyond feeding students’ minds at North Idaho College. Campus community members also work together to help keep students’ stomachs filled. The NIC Food Pantry, maintained by the ...
Posted: Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 Each year, the NIC Alumni Association Board of Directors recognizes outstanding individuals who greatly enhance North Idaho College and the NIC Alumni Association through their commitment and service. The Alumni Association Board is proud to honor Theresa Whitlock-Wild as Alumna of the Year and Doug Anderson as Honorary Alumnus of the ...
Posted: Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 NIC Board of Trustees Meeting Notice The next meeting of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be conducted virtually and members of the public are welcome to attend by way of Zoom at https://nic.zoom.us/j/97166879452 or by telephone at (669) 900-6833 / Meeting ID: ...
Posted: Monday, Nov. 23, 2020 The North Idaho College Board of Trustees has scheduled a workshop for Dec. 2, 2020, at 4 p.m. The purpose of the workshop is to review and discussion of the expansion project for the Meyer Health and Sciences Building and discussion of the aerospace program. This is an open meeting scheduled to take place virtually in Zoom, and the ...
Posted: Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 The Spokane University District and North Idaho College are excited to announce that the submission process is now open for the 2021 Northwest Entrepreneur Competition, culminating with a virtual pitch event and awards ceremony on Thursday, April 15, 2021. The Northwest Entrepreneur Competition (NEC) is the largest student entrepreneur ...
Posted: Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020 Celebrate National Career Development Day on Wednesday, Nov. 18 by participating in a free virtual workshop offered by North Idaho College Career Services.
The workshops take place between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and are open to the public. They provide opportunities for participants to take three different career assessment tests for ...
Posted: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 Tonya Sears, education/disabilities manager for NIC Head Start, left; NIC Head Start Director Beth Ann Fuller, center; and Jennifer Cork, president of the Panhandle Autism Society, pose for a photo with one of nine communication boards the society donated to NIC Head Start. Children playing on NIC Head Start playgrounds throughout North ...
Posted: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 The North Idaho College American Indian Advisory Council and the NIC Diversity Council are hosting “Indigenous Peoples Day: Conversations with Native Education Leaders” on Monday, Oct. 12 from noon to 1 p.m. This virtual Zoom event, facilitated by NIC Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies Dr. Victor Begay, will ...
Posted: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 North Idaho College is partnering with Heritage Health to offer a new dental hygiene degree program. Students who complete the two-year program will earn an Associate of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene and will be eligible to sit for the national exam to become a Registered Dental Hygienist. Courses will begin in January 2021 at two ...
Posted: Monday, Sept. 28, 2020 By Devin Weeks/Coeur d'Alene Press Robots don’t have hearts. Algorithms can’t feel empathy. So why are they making important decisions that can ruin people’s lives? Virginia Eubanks' 2018 book, "Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor" discusses these issues and many more ...
Posted: Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 North Idaho College recently celebrated the achievements of 200 students who earned a GED diploma during the summer and fall 2019 and spring 2020 semesters. A masked, physically distanced, GED graduation ceremony took place Sept. 10 in the Boswell Hall Schuler Auditorium. The graduates, whose ages spanned 35 years, are students who ...
Posted: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 CDL is a ticket to a bright future for many Story and photos by Tom Greene The U.S. is in a state of transition. Jobs are changing. Some jobs are adapting to the realities of the pandemic. Some are becoming obsolete. The ability to adjust with the job market is critical now more than ever, said Mitzi Michaud, North Idaho College ...
Posted: Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 The 50 th annual Tri-State Invitational, a popular high school wrestling tournament hosted each December by North Idaho College, will be postponed until the 2021 season. Citing COVID-19 concerns, the college decided to forgo the event in 2020. The tournament was slated to take place this year on Dec. 18 and 19. It is being rescheduled ...
Posted: Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 If you see Garry Stark around the North Idaho College campus carrying a small machine with a wand attached that he’s waving in the air, it’s not a Proton Pack, and Stark is not busting ghosts. No, Stark, NIC’s facilities operations director, his custodial team, and some other people on campus are virus-busting. They're ...
Posted: Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 The next meeting of the North Idaho College Board of Trustees will be Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be conducted virtually and members of the public are welcome to participate remotely by way of Zoom at https://nic.zoom.us/j/98213339068 or by telephone at (669) 900-6833 / Meeting ID: 982 1333 9068. Public Comment ...
Posted: Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020 Due to forecasted hazardous air quality conditions, North Idaho College is suspending all in-person, hybrid and online classes, as well as all co-curricular activities for Monday, Sept. 14. All employees other than essential employees will work remotely. This includes the main campus in Coeur d'Alene, the Parker Technical Education ...
Posted: Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020 Venerable Thubten Chodron, an American nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, will present “Finding Common Ground: Survival of the Most Cooperative” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29. This virtual event will be presented via Zoom at https://nic.zoom.us/j/97529166244 . In this time of pandemic and social and economic ...
Posted: Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 Everyone is invited to the launch of the 2020 edition of North Idaho College’s literary magazine, Trestle Creek Review, at noon Tuesday, Sept. 8, at the outdoor stage and pavilion in Cheamkwet Park on NIC’s main campus, near the Lakeside Children’s Center. Enjoy readings from the 34 th issue of the magazine, which ...
Posted: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 North Idaho College’s TRIO-Student Support Services program, which assists first-generation college students, students with disabilities, or those from low-income families, has received a five-year, federal grant renewal of $1.47 million. This is the fifth time since 2001 that federal grant funding has been renewed for the NIC ...
