Saturday, July 4, 2009

Turning 'tweets' into tangible opportunities

Deirdre Honner connects the right people to the right jobs in Calvin's human resources office. Now she's using social networking tools like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to do the same for the masses of jobless across the nation.

Hoogenboom-ingJuly 2, 2009

The Calvin fieldhouse has been remodeled to welcome plenty of new programming and services —and some old friends as well.

High school hoops comes to SFC July 2, 2009

This June, high school students from schools all over the country descended upon the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex for a basketball tournament.

Student athletes give back June 26, 2009

See how Calvin College student athletes go beyond the court to build stronger relationships with each other and with the Grand Rapids community.

Faculty Profile: Jeff Winkle June 26, 2009

Classics professor Jeff Winkle is trying to decide just how much Homer he'll read to his two-year-old son.

Faith and adolescenceJune 19, 2009

What do developmental psychologists know about how students construct faith? Two psychology professors are doing research to learn more.

Photo Spotlight

children attending Calvin's Reading in Determined Education program

Third through fifth graders play word games through Readers in Determined Education (R.I.D.E.), hosted by the Calvin speech pathology and audiology program from June 15 through July 30.

Media Mentions

"We need to have their voices. We need to have their wisdom—their stories."
~Daniel Garcia, Grand Rapids Press, read the full story
Calvin College professor of communication arts and sciences Daniel Garcia spent two years filming conversations with 32 local philanthropists in an effort to honor past givers and inspire future ones. Garcia recently presented the 50 hours of original interviews to the historical collection of the Grand Rapids Public Library.

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News In Brief

Calvin named one of best

Calvin College has again been named one of the country's best and most interesting colleges in the 2010 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Calvin is one of just 330 schools, and one of only seven from Michigan, included in this year's guide from among the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States. Fiske praised Calvin as one of the country's top evangelical colleges, a place where Christian values are central to the academic experience. Edward B. Fiske, who served almost two decades as education editor of The New York Times, began the guide 25 years ago.

Accreditation for music

The Calvin College music department has received continued accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) for the college's bachelor of arts in music program and earned final accreditation for its bachelor of arts in music education program. Music department chair Bert Polman noted that the current Calvin Fine Arts Center renovation project was a plus for accreditation as it addressed concerns NASM accreditors had about practice and private teaching space. Calvin's next full review is set for the 2016-2017 academic year.

New master's degree

Calvin's speech pathology and audiology program will be taking a significant step forward with the introduction of a new master’s degree, only the second in Calvin’s 133-year history. Approved in May by the college's faculty senate, the new degree now awaits accreditation by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Higher Learning Commission. A master's degree in speech pathology is the standard required for licensing in most states. Through the new five-year program Calvin graduates will earn both a bachelor's and a master's degree and enter the workforce nine months earlier. Calvin's speech pathology and audiology program is marked by a variety of hands-on opportunities for students, including a clinic for children and a stroke rehabilitation clinic.

Internships in Germany

Katrina Denny, a Calvin senior from Chicago, is one of five students working or pursuing internships this summer across Germany. A double major in engineering and German, Denny is doing an internship in Magdeburg, just west of Berlin on a project to make older apartment buildings more energy efficient by retrofitting them with photovoltaic arrays. The project is part of a national competition in Germany focused on reducing energy consumption. Denny, elected this past spring to be one of nine student senators in 2009-2010, also participated in Calvin's summer study program in Bremen in 2007.

Nursing earns accreditation

The Calvin nursing department has received full accreditation status for the maximum 10 years from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). Some of the key elements leading to CCNE accreditation are: a clear mission, goals and expected student outcomes; a curriculum that builds upon a foundation of the arts, sciences and humanities; and faculty members who are academically and experientially prepared. Calvin nursing became a full-fledged program in 2002, operating prior to that as a joint program with Hope College. Calvin now graduates 55-60 new nurses a year.