Relationship to KConnect
Cross-Cutting Workgroup: College Enrollment Success
Measure: Post-Secondary Success
Approach: Curious.
Office of Community Engagement
Supporting faculty and staff seeking to integrate community partnerships, societal issues and local opportunities into their teaching, research and service.
The Office of Community Engagement also serves as an all-purpose bridge for the community-at-large into the GVSU Division of Academic Affairs to provide key introductions, generate new partnerships and utilize the knowledge, expertise and talents of GVSU staff, faculty and students.
The Office of Community Engagement manages the webpages found at www.gvsu.edu/community where direct links to a variety of webpages pertaining to community engaged work across the university can be found. The Office of Community Engagement also provides a Community Service Directory for members of the community-at-large to learn more about services, events and opportunities that are available or accessible to the general public. Contact Director for Civic Learning and Community Engagement, Travus Burton at burtotra@gvsu.edu for more.
School Partnerships – Direct Credit
Direct Credit provides an opportunity for high school students to earn college credit for the career and technical education courses they take at their local Career Tech Center or High School. The courses are confirmed to be equivalent by GVSU faculty and the program instructors are qualified through the GVSU Faculty Qualification Assurance process. Upon completion of the class(es), students with a B or better will receive a GVSU transcript with their course(s) and grade(s) listed.
Benefits:
- Expand access to higher education.
- Eliminate cost barriers for high school students to earn college credit.
- Align closely with Michigan Department of Education’s goal to increase Secondary and Postsecondary school partnerships.
- Direct Credit coursework is portable.
Partnerships:
- Allegan County Area Tech & Education Center (Allegan)
- Careerline Tech Center (Holland)
- Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District (Charlevoix)
- Kent Career Tech Center (Grand Rapids)
- Muskegon Area Career Tech Center (Muskegon)
- Northwest Education Services (Traverse City)
- West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology (Grand Rapids)
- Wilson Talent Center (Lansing)
To learn more about direct credit at Grand Valley State University, please contact Mike Eichberger, School Partnership Specialist, in the Office of the Provost, at eichbem@gvsu.edu, or by phone at (616) 331-2181.