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Career Exploration Erin Albanese

Kent ISD and GRCC programs create a pathway to careers that can pay top technicians anywhere from $80,000 to more than $100,000 per year...

GRCC offering four class formats, waiving fees

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

GRCC is waiving online class fees for the upcoming winter 2021 semester, which begins Jan. 11...

Students pair up to overcome challenges

Grand Rapids Community College Alexis Stark

When the COVID-19 pandemic closed some doors, a window opened to a new partnership between Grand Rapids Community College’s Occupational Therapy Assistant students and college-aged adults diagnosed with intellectual disabilities...

GRCC helping frontline workers apply for free tuition program

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

The deadline for the state’s Futures for Frontliners program is Dec. 31...

GRCC participates in study around product that could slow COVID spread

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

The inhaled mist device, developed by a FHPS and GRCC grad, could prove useful in schools...

Culinary, design departments partner to make chocolate violins

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

GRCC’s Mechanical and Architectural Design and Secchia Institute for Culinary Arts are partnering to use (literally) cutting-edge laser technology to create intricate molds for use in the Cake Decorating Basics course...

A promise for college fulfilled: ‘I’m so grateful’

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

This fall some 250 students are attending Grand Rapids Community College on a Promise Zone scholarship, including 160 from Grand Rapids Public Schools...

Dental programs return to in-person learning

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

Like many students facing a new reality for courses, Alayna Helmer was stressed out when the lab and clinic portions of Grand Rapids Community College’s dental programs shut down last March to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus...

Students reopen fine-dining restaurant six months after closing its doors

Grand Rapids Community College Alexis Stark

GRCC’s The Heritage has reopened to the general public, with culinary students cooking, baking their way toward degrees...

Essential workers can attend GRCC free

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

They spent the two months of the stay-at-home order working in hospitals, grocery stores and public safety. Now they will be able to attend Grand Rapids Community College for free...

Rockford company supports GRCC program, provides boots

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

Rockford-based footwear company Wolverine is joining forces with the band Metallica to support GRCC students with funds for a workforce training program...

Staff, students join forces to combat food insecurity

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

Staff members have noticed an uptick in student need since the beginning of the pandemic, and are working hard to make sure students are fed...

GRCC offering remote, in-person and hybrid classes

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

Faculty and staff are welcoming students back Aug. 31 using four different styles of instruction to meet varying needs while using strict safety measures...

GRCC honored as a promising place to work

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

GRCC is among 16 schools in the nation recognized as one of 2020 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges...

GRCC offering free workforce training courses

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

GRCC offers free courses to help people re-enter the workforce...

GRCC waives fees for summer classes, holding first session remotely

Grand Rapids Community College Erin Albanese

Grand Rapids Community College is taking several steps to meet the needs of students financially and through distance learning so they can continue their education during the global pandemic..

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