Daily Archives: June 8, 2010

Art & Bev’s Bistro Weekly Specials: 6/8/10-6/11/10

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Art and Bev’s Weekly Specials for June 8-11, 2010:

Tuesday

  • Double Blue Cheese Burger $4.00
  • BLT Wrap w/Guacamole $4.00
  • DeLuxe Quesadilla w/tortilla chips $4.50
  • Soups: Pepperjack Cheese, Fire roasted Vegetable

Wednesday

  • Grilled Chicken Cordon Bleu Sandwich $4.00
  • Panini Club Sandwich $5.00
  • DeLuxe Nachos $4.00
  • Soups: Potato Bacon, Chicken Noodle

Thursday

  • Half Pound Southwest Burger $4.00
  • Deluxe Quesadilla w/ Tortilla Chips $4.50
  • Meatball Sub $4.00
  • Soups: Minestrone, Cream of Broccoli

Friday

  • Double Bacon Cheeseburger $4.00
  • DeLuxe Nacho $4.00
  • Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice $5.00
  • Soups: Southwest Chicken Chili…..and something else…

Art & Bev’s is pleased to serve you, and they thank you for choosing Art & Bev’s where your patronage helps in our learning: Art & Bev’s is a Student Run Enterprise.

IT Maintenance Scheduled for 6/10/10

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On Thursday, June 10th, IT will be patching one of the Zen management servers. (Network authentication).  This change is taking place to fully support future versions of Windows.

IT system imaging will be unavailable at various points of this maintenance window, however this work should have no visible impact on students.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact the Help Desk at extension 3688 or email ITHELP@grcc.edu.

College Advancement Quarterly Update: 6/8/10

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In an effort to help the GRCC community understand its work, the College Advancement Office is beginning a quarterly update. The College Advancement Office includes the following functions: the GRCC Foundation, Alumni Relations, and Grants & Resource Development.

Here are some of the highlights from the past 9 months:

  • Publicly launched the $15 million GRCC Works…Ask Anyone Capital Campaign (with $10,047,585 committed as of June 4th).
  • Created four new scholarships
    • Grandma O. Scholarship (female part-time students who have faced adversity)
    • CEBA Reinvestment Opportunity Scholarship (Workforce Development students)
    • Amway Hotel Corporation Culinary Arts Scholarship (minority culinary students)
    • Betz Family Scholarship (highly performing students with financial need
  • Held the 3rd annual GRCC Foundation event which raised $55,000 for the Nursing Department.
  • Raised over $580,000 in annual giving support.
  • Secured several planned gifts (future gifts from individual’s estates).
  • Recognized Dave Custer as the 2010 GRCC Distinguished Alumnus.
  • With help for experts across the campus, the Grants office applied for over $11,792,000 in local, state, and federal grants. As a result, the Foundation has been awarded $6,302,225 including the WIA One Stop Service Center Grant for Ottawa County, Upward Bound, Employment Service Labor Exchange, Incumbent Worker, Learning Corner grant, U.S. Department Pathways Out Of Poverty grants.
  • Repositioned the Alumni Relations Office to attract GRCC alumni, their stories, etc. A GRCC Alumni Committee of Champions has been formed to guide alumni relations efforts.

Here’s what the office is working on for the next several months:

  • GRCC Works…Ask Anyone Capital Campaign- we’ve got at least $5 million more to raise.
  • GRCC Foundation 4th annual event will raise funds for the Music Department. The date is October 12, 2010.
  • Alumni Relations efforts will focus in on connecting with alumni from Music, Nursing, Dental, OTA, Rad Tech, and the Secchia Institute for Culinary Education, along with GRCC Athletics.
  • Several grant applications are in the works, totaling approximately $2.6 million. These grants include Title III, Kent County Office of Community Corrections (GED services for the Learning Corner at Wealthy), Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth Adult Education and Family Literacy/WIA Title I, and the U.S. Department of Labor Promise Neighborhoods program.
  • Two different donors are interested in creating endowed scholarship- one for Drafting students, the other for manufacturing or applied technology students.

The College Advancement Office exists to support the needs of our campus and our students. Our desire is to secure funds to do the work that you carry out… serving our students and the community.

In an effort to help the GRCC community understand the work of the College Advancement Office, we are beginning a quarterly update.  The College Advancement Office includes the following functions:  the GRCC Foundation, Alumni Relations, and Grants & Resource Development.

Here are some of the highlights from the past 9 months.

· Publicly launched the $15 million GRCC Works…Ask Anyone Capital Campaign (with $10,047,585 committed as of June 4th).

· Created four new scholarships– Grandma O. Scholarship (female part-time students who have faced adversity), CEBA Reinvestment Opportunity Scholarship (Workforce Development students), Amway Hotel Corporation Culinary Arts Scholarship (minority culinary students), and the Betz Family Scholarship (highly performing students with financial need).

· Held the 3rd annual GRCC Foundation event which raised $55,000 for the Nursing Department.

· Raised over $580,000 in annual giving support.

· Secured several planned gifts (future gifts from individual’s estates).

· Recognized Dave Custer as the 2010 GRCC Distinguished Alumnus.

· With help for experts across the campus, we applied for over $11,792,000 in local, state, and federal grants. We have been awarded $6,302,225 including the WIA One Stop Service Center Grant for Ottawa County, Upward Bound, Employment Service Labor Exchange, Incumbent Worker, Learning Corner grant, U.S. Department Pathways Out Of Poverty grants.

· Repositioned the Alumni Relations Office to attract GRCC alumni, their stories, etc.  A GRCC Alumni Committee of Champions has been formed to guide alumni relations efforts.

Here’s what we’re working on for the next several months

· GRCC Works…Ask Anyone Capital Campaign- we’ve got at least $5 million more to raise.

· GRCC Foundation 4th annual event will raise funds for the Music Department.  The date is October 12, 2010.

· Alumni Relations efforts will focus in on connecting with alumni from Music, Nursing, Dental, OTA, Rad Tech, and the Secchia Institute for Culinary Education, along with GRCC Athletics.

· Several grant applications are in the works, totaling approximately $2.6 million.  These grants include Title III, Kent County Office of Community Corrections (GED services for the Learning Corner at Wealthy), Michigan Department of Labor & Economic Growth Adult Education and Family Literacy/WIA Title I, and the U.S. Department of Labor Promise Neighborhoods program.

· Two different donors are interested in creating endowed scholarship- one for Drafting students, the other for manufacturing or applied technology students.

As your College Advancement Office, we know that our team exists to support the needs of our campus and our students.  Our desire is to secure funds to do the work that you carry out… serving our students and the community.

GRCC in the News: 6/8/10

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Oakland University volleyball adds middle hitter Katie Horling of Zeeland
By ALAN BABBITT | The Holland Sentinel | Posted Jun 07, 2010 @ 05:00 AM

Zeeland, MI – Katie Horling feared for her volleyball future after she tore her anterior cruciate ligament and missed her junior season at Zeeland East.  It usually is a time college coaches recruit players the most intensely.  Horling overcame the injury, and two years after graduating from high school, she has become the NCAA Division I player she once envisioned.  […] Horling used a successful two-year stint at Grand Rapids Community College as a springboard to Oakland.  (More)

GRCC trustee opposes funds for theater over gay Jesus
WZZM 13 ONLINE |  Updated:6/8/2010 8:25:20 AM

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan community college trustee says he opposes funding “evil things,” citing school support for a theater group that once performed play depicting Jesus and his apostles as gay Texans.  Grand Rapids Community College is working to close a $3.5 million budget deficit.  At a meeting Monday, Trustee Richard Ryskamp objected to $60,000 budgeted for three groups, including $19,000 for the Actors’ Theatre.   (More)

Trustee opposes funds over gay Jesus – GRCC official mad about theater issues
Monday, 07 Jun 2010, 9:34 PM EDT | WOOD TV

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – A Michigan community college trustee says he opposes funding “evil things,” citing school support for a theater group that once performed play depicting Jesus and his apostles as gay Texans.  Grand Rapids Community College is working to close a $3.5 million budget deficit.  At a meeting Monday, Trustee Richard Ryskamp objected to $60,000 budgeted for three groups, including $19,000 for the Actors’ Theatre.   (More)

GRCC board member protests funding ‘evil things’ presented by Actors’ Theater
By Dave Murray | The Grand Rapids Press | June 07, 2010, 7:56PM

GRAND RAPIDS — Trustee Richard Ryskamp said taxpayers shouldn’t have to support performers who present “evil things” at Grand Rapids Community College, especially if groups with opposing views aren’t granted the same backing.  College leaders are debating how to stave off a $3.5 million budget deficit, looking at possibly delaying some hires and equipment purchases and seeking concessions from employees.  (More)

Grand Rapids schools struggle to create college culture that Promise brought to Kalamazoo
By Kym Reinstadler | The Grand Rapids Press | June 07, 2010, 10:59AM

GRAND RAPIDS — DeMarcus White’s plans didn’t include college. He figured that after high school, he would find a job in Indianapolis and stay at his sister’s place.  Then came the Kalamazoo Promise. The free-college-tuition program was announced in 2005, during his sophomore year at Kalamazoo Central High. […] “It shapes your life, knowing it’s possible,” White, 21, said. He’s a communications major at Grand Valley State University after earning an associate’s degree from Grand Rapids Community College.  (More)