Check out the latest promo ad created by GRCC’s Media Technologies and Communications departments to help get the message to prospective students that it’s not too late to register for Fall classes (it features an alumnus of GRCC who now works with our Upward Bound program):
Learning Opportunities from Staff Development:
Staff Development is pleased to invite Kathy Pyatt back as a facilitator for our summer Leadership and Communication series. Kathy is a personal management coach and training facilitator working with individuals and teams to improve performance. She is experienced in helping individuals understand their natural gifts and identify their blind spots to improve work performance. She is also experienced in improving team dynamics by helping groups that work together understand and appreciate differences, and solve personality conflicts to make the team more productive. Kathy is particularly adept at working with teams in crisis, as well as with people from other cultures. Please reserve your seat for these sessions at grcc.edu/currentlearning
The Engaging Leader
Thurs July 12, 2012 | 9-11:00 AM | 226 Main
This session emphasizes ‘engagement’ as coaching others, communicating, giving effective feedback, handling performance issues, and delegating. Through exercises and discussion, participants will leave with practical tools and tips to begin to be more effective leaders immediately.
Building Accountability and Deciding How to Decide
Tues August 7, 2012 | 2-4:00 PM | 207 Sneden Hall
This session defines ‘accountability’ and through exercises and discussion, helps participants understand the problems around lack of accountability, as well as ways they can improve upon their skills of holding others more accountable. The second part of the course covers the importance of deciding how a decision will be made within a group (Command, Consult, Vote, and Consensus).
Eliminating federal aid for people without GEDs creates uphill battle for some prospective students
Published: Tuesday, July 03, 2012, 7:05 AM | Grand Rapids Press | By Brian McVicar
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — At Grand Rapids Community College, they’re the minority – students who are attending college but don’t have a high school diploma or GED. But starting this week, it’s going to get a bit more difficult for students to pursue such a path. That’s because new rules prohibit students without a GED or high school diploma from receiving federal student aid. (More)
Tuesday July 3 from 11-1 on Bostwick Commons and 12-2 on the 4th Floor Main walkway GRCC Nursing Students will be selling T-shirts for the American Cancer Society. Two different colors, Army Green or Pink with the saying (front) Cancer Never Surrenders, and the (backside) Neither Will We. All proceeds to the ACS and the fight against Cancer. T-shirts sell for 10.00.
The Center for Teaching Excellence welcomes staff to Blackboard Basics for Faculty on Friday, July 13 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Room 316 Main, Downtown Campus. Facilitated by our Distance Learning and Instructional Technologies Faculty, this session is designed primarily for academic use by faculty. However, staff is welcome to attend to review the basics. Registration at www.grcc.edu/ctereg or contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at 234-2278 or teachexcellence@grcc.edu
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