GRCC accepting applications for vacant Board of Trustees seat
Sept. 17, 2015; MLive
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids Community College is accepting applications until 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24 for a vacant seat on its seven-member board of trustees.
Because of ATC construction, the Secchia Institute for Culinary Education won’t be holding its annual food and wine benefit auction this year.
Instead, you have the opportunity to bid in an online auction for private, specialty themed wine dinners for eight people! Proceeds will fund scholarships for SICE students.
For more information — and to see the first auction menu, by Chef Sasha Ahmed — click here.
The latest schedule, for September 21 to 27, for the College Channel includes the preschool groundbreaking. Check out the offerings here.
What are spam messages?
Spam messages are email messages sent to thousands or hundreds of thousands of email addresses harvested from various lists across the internet. Many of these recipients never requested nor agreed to receive such messages. The majority of spam messages are simple advertisements, but a certain type have malicious intent.
These spam messages pose as legitimate messages from popular sources such as Blackboard, Google, Microsoft, or even someone from your address book. These messages typically include one or more hyperlinks or attachments with a few paragraphs of text. The attachment(s) or website(s) may attempt to install malware or prompt you to enter personal details such as usernames and passwords, credit or debit cards, or social security numbers.
GRCC and Spam Messages
GRCC has been the target of several campaigns of the more malicious spam email messages. These campaigns seek to route users to a website prompting the user for their GRCC credentials. If entered, the individual responsible for the spam will use them to take control of GroupWise email accounts or other resources to harvest data and send out more messages. All in the hopes of collecting more victims and continuing the vicious cycle.
What is Information Technology doing?
Information Technology is dedicated to preventing as much Spam as we can, and we deploy a significant number of tools and people to do so.
Some are preventative like the FuseMail Spam Filter which prevents the majority of spam from reaching the College. This filter scans all incoming messages for keywords popular in many of the today’s more common spam. Any messages meeting its criterion are blocked and flagged for your review. This is why you don’t often see advertisements for low cost prescriptions, requests for money from princes, or any of the other most common spam.
Some messages, however, still make it through. When they do Information Technology responds quickly to block offending websites and senders, and watching to ensure no resources were comprised.
What can you do?
Spam messages are tricky so some still make it through our defenses. So Information Technology relies on the College’s dedicated Faculty, Staff, and Students to alert us to potential threats and to take necessary precautions in their day to day operations.
We’ve included a number of these precautions below for your review.
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