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GRCC In the News, 9-7-17

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Michigan job growth fueled by apprenticeships

Sept. 7, 2017; Burton View

MICHIGAN – More than one-third of Michigan’s job growth will be through apprenticeships over the next five years, said United States Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta, in an online post Last week, Governor Rick Snyder welcomed United States Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta to West Michigan to see how the state is connecting employers with educators and showing students the careers available to them at a young age. Michigan is a strong leader in apprenticeships, with the 8th most in the nation. Gov. Snyder and Sec. Acosta visited Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, where they are holding orientation for more than 150 new employees each week. They toured Grand Rapids Community College and Mercy Health to check out innovative job training programs. In Battle Creek, they checked out advanced manufacturing at Bleistahl and ROsler. Acosta told Snyder that he was impressed by Michigan’s leadership in job growth and its proactive approach to our future talent needs.

People and Places

Sept. 7, 2017; Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Maryann Lesert has been named the recipient of the Moondancer fellowship for 2017 at the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs.

In all of her writing, the natural world and its human inhabitants are equally prominent and intertwined. From her first play, Superwoman (1998), a 90-minute warning of technologies that threaten to erase our biological sense of place, to Threshold, her current novel-in-progress about environmental activists working to stop fracking in Michigan’s state forests, Lesert’s work is equally inspired and supported by time with the natural world. Threshold grew from two years of boots-on-well-sites research on fracking in Michigan’s state forests. An excerpt from Threshold appears in Fracture, Essays, Poems and Stories about Fracking in America (Ice Cube Press, 2016). From 2012 to the present, Lesert has presented her research on the scientific, sensory and community effects of fracking in a presentation, titled Fracking in the Forest, to more than 50 academic, environmental and public audiences across the state. Lesert is a playwright, novelist and journalist who teaches creative writing at Grand Rapids (Mich.) Community College.

Jayhawks volleyball team stays perfect in conference with a victory over Glen Oaks

Sept. 7, 2017; Local Sports Journal (Muskegon)

The Muskegon Community College volleyball team improved to 4-0 in conference play with a four-set victory over Glen Oaks Community College on the road on Tuesday.

… MCC will host rival Grand Rapids Community College on Thursday.

Policies updated

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The following policies have been updated or added and recently approved:

July 2017 Policy Meeting

8.7 Student Email Policy – no changes

6.18 Acceptable Use of Technology Policy

  • 1. Procedures: Users shall not intentionally damage or disable computing, telecommunication equipment or software or circumvent user authentication or security.

15.2 Web Accessibility Policy

  • Policy Statement: Clarifies that new content must conform to specific standards; currently-existing content will be evaluated for compliance and remediated.
  • Contacts: Added Communications Director
  • A. Added position and definition of Accessibility Advocate- trained staff/faculty who assists with training and helps respond to accessibility concerns/needs
  • C. Added different terms for types of content ownership, to include Department Owner, and Web Editor.
  • D. Added definition of Web Content, specifying it includes Blackboard content
  • A. Added role of Web Monitor, to coordinate accessibility monitoring through IT and guide remediation plans, where needed.
  • B. Clarifying compliance roles, including Web Monitor, Department Owners, and Web Editors, and identifying Director of EO Compliance as assisting in advising on training needs and responding to specific concerns.
  • C. Detailing monitoring procedures to include Web Monitor running auditing software and maintaining documentation of results. Also provides complaints may be directed to Communications Department of Director of EO Compliance.
  • D. Outlines training programs through CTE and requires Web Editors to participate in one training course annually. Also provides for Accessibility Advocates, who will be trained faculty/staff available to assist other faculty/staff in responding to accessibility concerns.
  • E. Remediation: Provides that remediation plans will be created by the Web Monitor in response to concerns raised through electronic audit or complaints. Web Monitor, with input where needed, will create timeline and monitor compliance with plan. Resources will be provided through CTE, DLIT, IT, etc. Any issues with failures to comply with the remediation plan will be resolved by the Director of EO Compliance, consulting with Department Owners and their supervisors. If plan is not followed, Web Monitor and Communications Department will consult with Director of EO Compliance and any appropriate supervisors about need to remove content. If remediation is not possible, the Web Editor is responsible for providing alternate access to information.
  • Policy History: Updated to reflect changes.

For more information, visit the policy website.