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The 4,974 students is an increase of 24.6% over last year’s incoming class. The Allendale school set a number of enrollment records. Why is the school performing well at a time when other universities are struggling to attract students?

It’s also the most diverse first-year class in GVSU’s 63-year history.

The name 616, references the area code of the Greater Grand Rapids region, and the day is a celebration of all things local through a lens of equity, diversity and inclusion.

We talk chess.

Democratic Michigan lawmakers re-introduced a bill to ban discrimination against natural hairstyles—like braids…locks…and twists—today

National Institutes of Health and participating hospitals are on a mission to enroll one million volunteers from communities that have been underrepresented in research. It kicked off in 2017. Grand Rapid’s Corewell Health announced this week it has enrolled its 10,000th participant

Board fires current Public Health Officer; eliminates Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Jeremy Evans-Smith joins the show.

"We recognized that in order to create a more welcoming community where new Americans who resettled can find a place of belonging and home again it takes the whole community," Tarah Carnahan, Executive Director and Co-founder, explained.

The goal is to engage with K-12 students of color to help them see education as a career, continue to mentor them as they study at GVSU and supporting them in their careers.