DeVry University has appointed Craig Jacob as president of the school’s Phoenix Metro, which includes DeVry’s main Phoenix campus and center locations in Northeast Phoenix and Mesa. Jacob previously held senior-level administrative positions with the University of Phoenix’s Grand Rapids, Mich. and Phoenix campuses. Jacob assumes a role previously held by James Dugan, who has [...]

Michigan State University’s medical school celebrating a huge grant received Friday.
The Steelcase Foundation and the Frey Foundation announced they’ll each give two million dollars to the MSU College of Human Medicine. The money will help build the Secchia Center.
The first med school students should begin training here late next year.
The inaugural class of first year [...]

The Grand Haven Area Community Foundation’s scholarship application is available online at the foundation’s Web site: www.ghacf.org.
Instructions for completing the on-line application are detailed on the site’s Scholarship Page, and instruction sheets are available at local high school guidance departments and at the foundation office, 1 S. Harbor Ave. in Grand Haven.
High school seniors interested [...]

Study-abroad programs offer more than a semester or year of vacation in another country for high school and university students.
They’re small acts of diplomacy.
Barbara Decker, director of student services for the Council for Educational Travel office in Grand Rapids, said foreign students learn during their study abroad experiences that American life isn’t like that depicted [...]

The 2007 Scholarship Bulletin is available. The annual publication, produced by the Community Foundation of South Wood County, lists more than 100 scholarships available for students from Nekoosa, Pittsville, Port Edwards, Rome, Rudolph, Vesper and the Wisconsin Rapids area. It is an excellent tool for students, both traditional and non-traditional.
The Bulletin is available at South [...]

Twenty-six police officers from West Michigan killed in the line of duty were honored this morning as part of Police Memorial Day.
Grand Rapids Police Officer Joseph Taylor died in the line of duty in 1986. The Police Memorial Scholarship Fund with Grand Rapids Community College was then established, in which scholarships were handed out to [...]

The Eaton Rapids Business and Professional Women awarded $1,000 scholarships to Kathy Quinn and Tham Doan at its April 17 meeting. The BPW scholarships are awarded to women over 25 who are enrolled in a program for advanced education or vocational training. The Scholarship Committee Chair Alys Hoover was in charge of the meeting.
The last [...]

Application Requirements/Description:
1.) All .Michigan high school seniors are eligible for this scholarship. A $500.00 scholarship will be awarded to the senior that raises the most money for Multiple Sclerosis.
2.) The Mary J. Szczepanski “Never Give Up” Scholarship was founded in 2000 to award six high school seniors at West Catholic, Catholic Central and Kenowa Hills [...]

First-of-its-Kind Grant from National Science Foundation Funds Scholarships for Data Center Training
ORANGE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 14, 2006–AFCOM, the leading association for data center professionals, has partnered with the Institute for Data Center Professionals (IDCP) at Marist College to award two of 30 scholarships to the IDCP’s online data center certification program for 2006, one of the [...]

This cleverly titled blank book, out just in time for the election, is a perfect gift for tickling funny bones on both sides of the political aisle! The 8 ½” x 5 ½” trade paperback features 90 pages of quality white paper completely uncontaminated by printing — save for headers & [...]