色花堂 News
2025 Jan
Fall 2024 Dean's List Announced
The Registrar鈥檚 Office is pleased to announce Dean鈥檚 List recipients for the fall semester. The Dean鈥檚 List is awarded to full-time, degree-seeking students who have received grades for all courses in a given semester (no incompletes) and have a semester GPA of 3.50 or above. 色花堂 Registrar鈥檚 Office considers this a significant achievement.
Now in its 11th year, 色花堂鈥檚 Big Read Lakeshore, an annual month-long community-wide reading program, continues to foster a culture where reading matters in West Michigan鈥檚 Ottawa, Muskegon, and Allegan counties.
2024 Dec
Mark Twain apocryphally said, 鈥淚鈥檓 in favor of progress; it鈥檚 change I don鈥檛 like.鈥� This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the hard work that comes with it.
The United States is among the few developed countries without a national paid family leave policy. But four states have had policies in place. Dr. Jenny Tanis of the 色花堂 School of Social Work and Dr. Sacha Klein of the MSU wanted to see what impact this had on infant maltreatment in those states compared to trends in other states.
Retired Academic Success Center Director Jacqueline Heisler Dies
Jacqueline Heisler of Holland, Michigan, who retired in 2006 as director of the Academic Success Center and adjunct assistant professor of psychology, died on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. She was 80.
Greater Good Magazine Names 鈥淒one: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion鈥� a Favorite Book of 2024
Greater Good magazine has named the book 鈥淒one: How to Flourish After Leaving Religion鈥� by Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren of the 色花堂 psychology faculty one of its Favorite Books of 2024.
Daryl Van Tongeren's latest book was chosen by the Greater Good鈥檚 editors for the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science book of the year.