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Welcome to Fall Semester 2007! The more you know, the more smoothly the semester start should be for you and your students.

Exam Schedule
Here is the Winter 2008 Exam Schedule. Remember, exam week is part of your 32-week work schedule, per the contract. All faculty who teach classes during the day (before 5p.m.) are expected to remain available to students during exam time. Students often have questions about grades and other course issues that need to be resolved; therefore, it is important for them to be able to connect with you.

Brochure

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Contact Information

Gilda Gely, Provost/Executive Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs

Debbie Dewent, Managing Associate
Room 123, Main Building
143 Bostwick NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616-234-3920

Provost Gilda Gely

It is with great pleasure and enthusiasm that I welcome you to GRCC. I invite you to browse our pages and explore this learning community that provides a creative, rigorous, supportive and open environment.

As you explore these pages you will discover that GRCC is an energetic setting that offers challenging learning opportunities. The high quality instruction that you will receive as a GRCC student is possible because of the commitment to excellence of our highly qualified faculty and staff. Here, students become active lifelong learners that develop the skills of questioning, problem solving and assertive communication, among others.

You will be challenged by our wide variety of nationally-recognized programs that will prepare you to effectively continue your education or enter the workforce. As our mission is to provide the community with learning opportunities to achieve their goals, we are constantly listening to what community members tell us and require from us and what our students need to achieve their goals. This has prompted us to offer, both personal attention from faculty and staff that care about your goals and creative delivery methods that fit your needs using state-of-the-art technology and the unlimited creative potential of our personnel.

We are all committed to your success. Welcome to our learning community!

Gilda Gely, Provost/Executive Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs

Essential Classroom Information

The information contained in this brochure will assist you and your students in having a successful year. We encourage you to keep this handy, but if you have questions please contact your department/program office. If you have any classroom related topics that you feel would be benefi cial to the next printing of this booklet, please e-mail your idea/suggestion to ddewent@grcc.edu.

Learning College Principles

1. The Learning College creates substantive change in individual learners.
2. The Learning College engages learners in the learning process as full partners, assuming primary responsibility for their own choices.
3. The Learning College creates and offers as many options for learning as possible.
4. The Learning College assists learners to form and participate in collaborative learningactivities.
5. The Learning College defines the roles of learning facilitators by the needs of the learners.
6. The Learning College and its learning facilitators succeed only when improved and expanded learning can be documented for its learners.

Source: O'Banion, Terry.  1999. Launching a Learning-Centered College .  League for Innovation in the Community College.

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