Information session for medical assistant program set for July 2013

GRCC’s Medical Assistant program will prepare you to perform administrative and clinical tasks to keep health practitioner offices and clinics running smoothly. It combines classroom lecture, group activity, simulation learning and a competency-based externship experience. You will be prepared to take the medical assistant national certification exam through American Medical Technologists. Classes start July 22, 2013.

Learn more at a free information session at noon July 15. For details, click here.

GRCC In the News, 6-24-13

GRCC selects community leader for trustee post

June 21, 2013; Grand Rapids Business Journal

A vacant seat on the Grand Rapids Community College Board of Trustees will be filled by a recognizable West Michigan face.

WMSTI rebrands as GR Current

June 21, 2013; Grand Rapids Business Journal

GR Current is the once and future West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative.

… GR Current, which runs on a grant and state initiative-funded budget of about $650,000, began in 2003 as a collaborative between the city of Grand Rapids, Van Andel Research Institute, The Right Place Inc., Grand Valley State University and Grand Rapids Community College. It has since expanded to include entrepreneurial names like Start Garden, The Factory, GR Collective, AimWest and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Main Building to get new windows this week

Window replacement work in the Main Building will begin this week!  The contractors will have a lift along the east side of the main building today.  Tomorrow there will be two lifts.  They will be caution taping them off so students and the public will be warned of the swing radius of the lifts.

Over the next three weeks, they will be taking out and replacing all the windows in phase 1 on the east side of the building.  They will start on the second floor, then go to 5 and work their way down.   The only equipment they should have on the sidewalks is the two lifts.   At night they will be put off to the side out of the way and up in the air for safety purposes.

If you see or have issues of concern, please contact Vicky Janowiak or Scott Merlo.

Parking ramp work will get noisy

Work on the Bostwick parking ramp will involve periodic use of a nail gun. Hoekstra Electric employees warn us that it will be loud because it’s shooting nails into concrete.