GRCC in the News: 2/16/11

GR Sustainability Partnership Sets 2011 Goals
February 13, 2011 1:28 PM | CBS Detroit

The greater Grand Rapids Community Sustainability Partnership has formed a new leadership team, appointed by Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell, Grand Valley State University President Thomas J. Haas, and Grand Rapids Community College President Steven C. Ender, and has set goals for 2011 to help maintain Grand Rapids’ status as the most sustainable mid-size city in the United States.  (More)

Sen. Carl Levin coming to Grand Rapids to discuss prospects for success in Afghanistan
Published: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 5:51 PM | Jeff Cranson | The Grand Rapids Press

Carl Levin, Michigan’s senior U.S. senator, will speak in Grand Rapids Monday at an event organized by the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. The Southfield Democrat and long-time chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee will discuss “prospects for success in Afghanistan” at noon at Sneden Hall on the DeVos Campus of Grand Rapids Community College Campus (formerly Davenport University’s downtown site.)  (More)

Root Camp Sold Out Today – Moved to Larger Venue

For those of you lucky enough to have registered for Workforce Training’s Root Camp today, please note that it is being offered in Sneden Hall room 108. This event is “sold out”!

Reminder: Author Ta-Nehisi Coates on Campus

Diversity Lecture Series with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Journalist, Author, Editor

A Deeper Black: The Meaning of Race in the Age of Obama

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

7:00 PM

Fountain Street Church

Free and open to the public

A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Thursday, February, 17, 2011

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Calkins Science Center

Please join the DLC for a conversation with our Diversity Lecture Series speaker Mr. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Journalist, Author, Editor.  Coates writes about politics, race, history and pop culture, often in the same article.  He has penned many controversial and influential articles.  His memoir The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, offers readers an epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond.  Questions please contact the Diversity Learning Center 234-3390