Domingo Hernandez, from Mexico, and Magdalena Sieradzka, from Poland, are both enrolled in the School of Public and Nonprofit Administration's master's degree program. Both students finished the ELS program during the summer.
"It was not difficult and not easy," Sieradzka said. "It was also interesting to interact with people from other cultures. I learned something new about all their cultures and countries."
Todd Patterson, ELS director, said 31 students are now enrolled in the program, which is housed in the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences. Since its inception last year, ELS has added a super intensive English program, which Patterson said best suits business people or executives.
Hernandez said he learned about Grand Valley while searching on the Internet. He and his wife, Ashley, moved to Holland and he took the Greyhound bus daily to ELS classes. They now live in the Ravines Apartments on the Allendale Campus.
Hernandez is a graduate assistant in the Graduate Studies and Grants Administration Department; Sieradzka is a GA for the School of Public and Nonprofit Administration.
Patterson expects more ELS students to enroll at Grand Valley in the winter semester.
