Spotlight on...Superior Edge Graduates




 

Congratulations to our Superior Edge graduates!  Thirty-six students were recognized as Superior Edge graduates.  To receive this honor, the students completed a minimum of 400 Superior Edge hours, a minimum of 100 hours in each of the four edges.  The other 34 students graduated with one, two or three edges.  For the first time, Superior Edge graduates were given blue cords to wear during commencement.  To see who graduated...
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News and Information

NMU is chosen as
2013 Michigan's
Engaged Campus of Year

The Council of Presidents of Michigan Campus Compact presented NMU the 2013 Michigan's Engaged Campus of the Year Award for Academic Service Learning, the Student Leader Fellowship Program, and Superior Edge.  Congratulations!

 
Superior Edge wins NASPA's Silver Award

Superior Edge was chosen as a Silver Award winner by the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, which is known as NASPA. Superior Edge received the honor in the category titled careers, academic support, service learning, community service and related.  For more info...
Congratulations to Michigan Campus Compact Winners

Congratulations to Nick Cook for receiving one of six Outstanding Community Impact awards through Michigan Campus Compact!  He is the first NMU student to ever be selected for this award!  To read more...

 
Get Superior Edge cords when completing all four edges

For the first time, Superior Edge graduates who completed all four edges (yes, that's at least 400 hours and 5 reflection papers) were identified by sporting these sweet blue cords at commencement on May 4! 
Orientation

Log Your Hours
 

The only way you can get credit for your activities is to remember to log your hours as you go. Log your hours here.  If you want a refresher on how to log, watch this video.  We look forward to reading your logs.  If you want more information about how to write your reflection paper, please check out this short video.

 

Students Stats by College

Did you know that 2,907 of NMU's 8,541 students have chosen to participate in Superior Edge - or about 34% of our student population?  Here's the breakdown by college:

Arts & Sciences - 1,376
Business - 213
Professional Studies - 1,156
General University - 162
Total Superior Edge Participants - 2,907

Click here to find a breakdown by department.

 

Award

2012-13 NASPA Excellence Silver Award

 

Total Edge Hours and Count
(as of December 18, 2012)

Total hours completed since 2006 is 479,358.

Citizenship Edge - 241 edges completed
Diversity Edge - 229 edges completed
Leadership Edge - 330 edges completed
Real World Edge - 409 edges completed
Superior Edge (all four edges completed) - 168 edges completed
 
Orientation Dates

Interested in becoming a Superior Edge participant?  Your next step is to attend an orientation.  Check back in late August for our fall orientation dates.
May Graduates

Congratulations  Superior Edge graduates!

As a reminder, you may want to print out a copy of your logs to have for your records.

 

More Info about Superior Edge
Superior Edge VideoTo find out more about Superior Edge, please watch this video.

If you are interested in becoming a Superior Edge participant, your next step is to attend an orientation.  All of our orientations are completed for this semester.  Please check back in January for our winter orientation schedule.