Speaker Boehner tweets WZZM 13 story
Oct. 31, 2013; WZZM
(WZZM) — WZZM 13 has gotten the attention of House Speaker John Boehner over the problems with the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
Wednesday we told you about 26-year-old Jordan Cloud, a part-time worker and Grand Rapids Community College student. He had his own policy through Blue Cross and Blue Shield but it didn’t meet the requirements of the ACA and was cancelled.
This month, the Center for Teaching Excellence is hosting a variety of workshops and special events. All of our workshops are open to any faculty member (full-time or adjunct) or staff member at GRCC and you can register online at www.grcc.edu/ctereg. You can also see our schedule in calendar form at www.grcc.edu/centerforteachingexcellence/calendarofevents. There you can click on individual events to see details.
Below is a list of our upcoming events…
Michigan State Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Program Open House
Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 – 1:30 in 347 Main
Refreshments will be provided
Addressing Student Behaviors of Concern
Tuesday, November 12, 12:00 – 1:00 in 347 Main
What is an Honors Contract?
Thursday, November 14, 3:15 – 4:15 in 347 Main
Training for Rank and Tenure Portfolio Committee Members
Monday, November 18, 3:00 – 4:00 in 347 Main
Faculty Lecture: “A comparison of the wildlife of Panama and Costa Rica with the wildlife of Tanzania”
Matt Douglas will present on his IIPD grant research on Monday, November 18, 2:00 – 3:30 in 333 Calkins
Refreshments will be provided
Evaluating Web Resources
Tuesday, November 19, 12:00 – 1:00 in 347 Main
Using Blackboard Discussions to Increase Student Engagement
Tuesday, November 19, 5:30 – 6:30 in 351 Main
Creating Rubrics
Wednesday, November 20, 3:15 – 4:15 in 347 Main
Disability Dynamics: Effectively Teaching Veteran Students with Disabilities
Friday, November 22, 9:15 – 10:45 in 347 Main
If you need help with registration or have any questions, please contact us at CTE@grcc.edu or 234-2278.
We hope to see you soon!
There’s a schedule change for the upcoming holiday season: GRCC will now be closed on Monday, December 23, 2013.
CEBA, Campus Police, ESP and Meet & Confer employees will have the option to use one of their personal, vacation, comp time or sick days for December 23. Employees may opt to take the day unpaid.
The last day scheduled day for 2013 will be Friday, December 20. You will be required to submit your time sheet early; more details will come as we get closer to that last week of work in 2013.
In the November 5 Teacher Education Seminar, speaker Pam Harris talked to students about ways to get involved with classrooms.
Below is the Office Depot Holiday Schedule. Please note the following dates, as deliveries will not be made on the dates we are closed. PLEASE ALSO NOTE: If an order is placed on a date that our delivery centers are closed, they will not deliver the next open business day. It will be PICKED on the next open business day and delivered on your next scheduled delivery date. It’s never too soon to inform your end-users and have them mark their calendars!! 🙂 Have a great holiday season!!
Thanksgiving:
All Delivery Centers work Wednesday 11/27 for Monday 12/2 Delivery.
All Delivery Centers are closed Thursday and Friday, 11/28 and 11/29. Orders placed Thursday to
Sunday will be picked on Monday 12/2 and delivered on Tuesday 12/3.
Christmas:
All Delivery Centers work on 12/23 for 12/24 delivery.
All DC’s are closed on 12/24 and 12/25.
Orders placed on 12/24 and 12/25 will be picked on 12/26
and delivered on 12/27.
New Year’s:
All Delivery Centers work Tuesday 12/31 for Thursday 1/2 Delivery
Author and educator John Elder Robison will talk about his experiences with Asperger’s syndrome on November 13 as part of the 2013-2014 Diversity Lecture Series. For details about the series, click here.
The Grand Rapids Community College Mathematics Department will host its next Mathematics Seminar on Wednesday, November 13, 3:00 – 4:00 PM in 107 Cook. Our presenter, GRCC Chemistry Instructor Tom Neils, will discuss fitting lines to sets of data from the point of view of a scientist.
The mathematics in this seminar will be accessible to anyone with a good understanding of slope and equations of lines, and will give attendees a scientist’s perspective on an important topic in mathematics, the sciences and related fields. Everyone in the greater GRCC community is welcome.
Pop and cookies will be served at 2:45 PM.
“What’s My Line?”
Many scientific experiments are carried out to determine the mathematical relationship between two or more variables. Graphing the experimental data is often the most effective way of finding this mathematical relationship, because one can determine a curve of best fit for the trend in the data and also obtain a visual of the relationship between the variables. During this interactive seminar we will discuss the extent to which chemists will go to obtain a linear fit for their data and get some practice fitting the slope-intercept formula to various data sets.
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