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Pulse surveys reveal students, faculty, staff confident in university's response to COVID-19
Surveys to gauge how students, faculty and staff members feel about returning to campus showed they are mostly confident in Grand Valley's response to COVID-19 health and safety protocols.
Jul 31, 2020
Student action teams seek to enhance university experience
The first student action team convened following a design thinking workshop held in January of this year. At the workshop, more than 50 students from a variety of majors, academic levels and backgrounds gathered with President Philomena V. Mantella to identify ways to reimagine the student experience at Grand Valley.
Jul 30, 2020
Town hall on financial aid includes information on scholarships, hardship funds, student employment
Members of Grand Valley's Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships outlined various forms of financial aid during a virtual town hall July 29 for first-year students and their supporters.
Jul 29, 2020
KCON receives federal grant to partner with Dwelling Place to provide integrative primary, mental health services
Kirkhof College of Nursing received a $1.5 million federal grant to provide integrated primary and behavioral health services at housing sites in Grand Rapids' Heartside neighborhood through the GVSU Family Health Center and Dwelling Place.
Jul 29, 2020
Nonprofits secured 3.7% of all loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program, protecting 4.1 million jobs
Researchers at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University have released research about the impact of the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, on the nonprofit sector, finding that the loans made to nonprofit organizations helped protect approximately 4.1 million jobs.
Jul 28, 2020
Students studying Spanish complete virtual exchange with partner university in Chile, exchange serves as pilot for fall
Students studying Spanish during the Spring 2020 semester participated in a virtual language and cultural exchange with students learning English at a partner university, the University of Bio-Bio, in Chillan, Chile.
Jul 28, 2020
Slow and steady, with a head start: GVSU biology researchers, local zoo work to boost survival chances for vulnerable turtles
The collaboration, which also includes a West Michigan nature center, is an effort to boost the population of Eastern box turtles.
Jul 24, 2020
Town hall on health, safety touches on steps to implement testing, contact tracing in fall semester
Grand Valley leaders provided a glimpse into the preparations of opening a campus under the shadow of COVID-19 during a town hall July 23 for faculty and staff members focused on health and safety measures.
Jul 23, 2020
Networks of Support: Pen-pal friendship becomes encounter at hospital for nursing student
A pen-pal friendship became an in-person chance encounter at a hospital when an older man sick with COVID-19 symptoms was greeted by the nursing student with whom he corresponded.
Jul 23, 2020
Taking sides during the pandemic. How beliefs affect the way we process information, react to discord
Michael Wolfe, professor of psychology, said his research shows much more goes into assessing an argument than the facts.
Jul 22, 2020
