Registration is a milestone, and participation is the necessary outcome. College students may find the distance between the two can be surprisingly difficult to navigate, but we should not confuse those barriers with indifference. At Grand Valley, we have seen what is possible when we approach voter participation intentionally.
Philomena V. Mantella
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Opinion | Stewardship over spotlight: Rethinking leadership in a time of turnover
Universities, and many businesses, are not built in a single administration. They are shaped across a continuum of leadership, each generation inheriting both the strengths and unfinished work of those who came before, while responding to a rapidly changing world.
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Opinion | Michigan is dead last in Midwest in college funding. That must change
Michigan has an enormous opportunity for its next economic renaissance. We can’t deliver on that vast potential while dead last in educational investment.