Several GRCC students attended a press conference held yesterday at Sneden Hall by Lieutenant Governor John Cherry that was scheduled to announce a proposal to restore Michigan Promise Scholarship funding through a tax on bottled water. Also on-hand were GRCC Board Members Rick VerBurg and Terri Handlin, GRCC President Steven Ender, and Executive Director of Student Financial Services Jill Nutt. View the full slideshow here.
To better facilitate communication, GRCC’s IT Help Desk is now publishing status updates on Twitter (@grcchelp) in addition to its blog (grccitstatus.wordpress.com). Anyone may opt in (via RSS) to receive these messages through the platform of their choice.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Help Desk at extension 3688 or email ITHELP@grcc.edu.
GRCC will be hosting the following Learning Day events for employees:
Brian Shultz (manager of the Construction Trades program) and George Waite (Director of the Tassell M-TEC) recently spent a week in Vietnam as part of team representing Habitat for Humanity of Kent County. The Kent County group of 9 people joined 300 other volunteers from 28 different countries to build 32 homes in 5 days. This was the 28th year of the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project. Well done!
John Cherry pitches 10 cent fee on water bottlers to save Michigan Promise, asks critics where their plans are
By Dave Murray | The Grand Rapids Press | December 14, 2009, 4:54PM
GRAND RAPIDS — Taxing water bottlers to restore a college scholarship is “common sense” and would use a Michigan natural resource to guide the state’s economic recovery, Lt. Gov. John Cherry says. “I believe a promise is a promise, and this promise should be restored,” Cherry told a small group of Grand Rapids Community College students and staff Monday at one of two stops at state colleges to pitch his plan. (More)
GRCC will shut down all campus wide vending machines for the holiday shut down beginning on the afternoon of December 22, 2009. In preparation for this, the college will begin to scale back on the amount of product in machines. There may well be some spot product shortages as we approach the 22nd. GRCC apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The plan is to have everything back up to capacity on January 5, 2010.
As GRCC continues to build its library of students on campus to be used in promotional materials (like catalogs, brochures, billboards and posters), the Graphic Services department is building a list of students willing to be photographed. Students of all ages and nationalities are needed, and the college is looking for students who represent the broad geographic region that that we serve. Interested students can email Graphic Services with a photo of themselves and some basic information (where they’re from) at grccdesign@me.com
For more information, visit www.grcc.edu/photoshoot
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