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== Introduction ==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley State University (also known as GVSU), is a public, liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan, United States. The university is located west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. and offers classes at a second campus in downtown Grand Rapids--GVSU's Pew Campus. The Pew Campus houses programs in Engineering, Education, Nursing, Health Professions, and Business. A third campus is in Holland, Michigan, houses many of the online hybrid degree programs and two graduate programs--the Master’s of Business Administration and the Masters of Education. Three satellite centers are located in Traverse City, Detroit, and Muskegon.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, in 2018, there are 2524,049 677 students, with 21,937 680 of them being undergraduated undergraduate and the other 32,112 997 students being graduate students. There are ninety 121 undergraduate programs and 38 53 graduate programs. Grand Valley also offers over 400 student-led clubs and organizations.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thomas J. Haas, affectionately known as T. Hass, has been serving as president of the university since 2006, and is retiring at the end of 2018.&nbsp;</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within GVSU, the Fredrick Frederik Meijer Honors College is housed. The Honors College has 8% of all undergraduate enrollment. In Fall 20172018, there was an all-time high total enrollment of 1,700 students, 420 of them being freshmenand enrollment has been capped. A multitude of majors are represented within the Honors College, but as of 2018 60% of the students are in STEM majors. The focus on the Honors College curriculum is an alternate education that focuses on integration of topics and perspectives, utilizing the resources surrounding the GVSU community.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There has been a movement through the past several years to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship landscape on GVSU main campuses. This recent push has gained the momentum of numerous courses, clubs, workshops, competitions and other programs involving innovation and entrepreneurship. The infrastructure is slowly growing to empower a greater number of students with the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur and innovator. With a continued focus on liberal arts, Grand Valley has been working on integrating subjects to allow for students to receive a more well-rounded education.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>
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