Grand Rapids, Michigan

==Education==
[[File:Grand Rapids Public Library 2021.jpg|thumb|The Main Branch of the [[Grand Rapids Public Library]]; the [[Ryerson Library|Ryerson Building]], its oldest wing, opened in 1904]]

[[K–12]] public education is provided by the [[Grand Rapids Public Schools]] (GRPS) as well as a number of [[charter schools]]. [[City High-Middle School]], a magnet school for academically talented students in the metropolitan region operated by GRPS.<ref>{{cite web |title = Rankings: Best High Schools |url = https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/michigan/districts/grand-rapids-public-schools/city-high-middle-school-9981 |access-date = July 30, 2019 |website = U.S. News & World Report |archive-date = June 13, 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190613213407/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/michigan/districts/grand-rapids-public-schools/city-high-middle-school-9981 |url-status = live }}</ref> Grand Rapids is also home to the oldest co-educational Catholic high school in the United States, [[Catholic Central High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan)|Catholic Central High School]].<ref name="psr">{{cite web |title = Catholic Central High School |url = http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/13817 |access-date = August 21, 2017 |publisher = Private School Review |archive-date = May 10, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150510100634/http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/13817 |url-status = live }}</ref> [[National Heritage Academies]], which operates charter schools across several states, has its headquarters in Grand Rapids.<ref>[https://www.nhaschools.com Home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020125192252/http://www.nhaschools.com/ |date=January 25, 2002 }}. [[National Heritage Academies]]. Retrieved on November 27, 2011. "Find Us 3850 Broadmoor Ave SE, Suite 201 Grand Rapids, MI 49512"</ref>

Grand Rapids is home to several colleges and universities. The private, religious schools: [[Aquinas College Grand Rapids|Aquinas College]], [[Calvin University]], [[Cornerstone University]], [[Grace Christian University]], and [[Kuyper College]], each have a campus within the city. The seminaries [[Calvin Theological Seminary]], [[Grand Rapids Theological Seminary]], and [[Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary]] are in Grand Rapids. [[Thomas M. Cooley Law School]], a private institution, also has a campus in Grand Rapids. [[Northwood University]], a private university with its main campus in [[Midland, Michigan]], has a satellite campus downtown near the "medical mile." [[Davenport University]], a private, non-profit, multi-location university with 14 campuses statewide, has its main campus just outside Grand Rapids.

As for public [[tertiary institution]]s, [[Grand Rapids Community College]] (GRCC) maintains a campus downtown and facilities in other parts of the city and surrounding region.

[[File:GVSU Cook Devos.jpg|thumb|left|The Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences, on Grand Rapids' "Medical Mile," is part of [[Grand Valley State University]]'s Pew Grand Rapids campus<ref name="campus">{{cite web |title = GVSU Campuses |url = http://www.gvsu.edu/campus.htm |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101006220108/http://gvsu.edu/campus.htm |archive-date = October 6, 2010 |access-date = October 2, 2010 |publisher = Grand Valley State University }}</ref>]]

[[Grand Valley State University]], with its main campus in nearby [[Allendale, Michigan|Allendale]], continues to develop its presence downtown by expanding its Pew Campus, begun in the 1980s on the west bank of the Grand River.<ref name="campus" /> This downtown campus comprises {{convert|67|acres|0|abbr=on}} in two locations and is home to 12 buildings and three leased spaces.<ref>{{cite web |title = About Grand Valley: The Campuses |url = http://catalog.gvsu.edu/content.php?catoid=40&navoid=1530#Pew |access-date = August 21, 2017 |publisher = Grand Valley State University |archive-date = August 21, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170821083858/http://catalog.gvsu.edu/content.php?catoid=40&navoid=1530#Pew |url-status = dead }}</ref> Into the 2000s, Grand Valley State University expanded its medical education programs into Medical Mile, constructing various facilities such as the Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |last = Martinez |first = Shandra |date = January 4, 2016 |title = Billionaire Rich DeVos is GVSU's largest donor at $36M |url = https://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/2016/01/how_billionaire_rich_devos_acc.html |access-date = May 1, 2021 |website = MLive |language = en |archive-date = May 1, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210501203513/https://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/2016/01/how_billionaire_rich_devos_acc.html |url-status = live }}</ref> The university expanded across [[I-196]] from the Medical Mile into the [[Belknap Lookout]] neighborhood in the 2010s, constructing the Raleigh Finkelstein Hall to assist with medical and nursing studies.<ref>{{Cite web |date = July 16, 2018 |title = Grand Valley plans affordable housing project in Belknap Lookout |url = https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2018/07/grand_valley_plans_for_afforda.html |access-date = May 1, 2021 |website = MLive |language = en |archive-date = May 1, 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210501203515/https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2018/07/grand_valley_plans_for_afforda.html |url-status = live }}</ref>

[[Ferris State University]] has a growing campus downtown, including the Applied Technology Center (operated with GRCC) and the [[Kendall College of Art and Design]], a formerly private institution that now is part of Ferris. Ferris State also has a branch of the College of Pharmacy downtown on the medical mile. [[Western Michigan University]] has a long-standing graduate program in the city, with facilities downtown, and in the southeast. The Van Andel Institute, a cancer research institute established in 1996, also resides on the medical mile; the institute established a graduate school in 2005 to train Ph.D. students in cellular, genetic, and molecular biology.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}

[[File:Calvin aerial.jpg|thumb|[[Calvin University]], a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[private university]]]]

Grand Rapids is home to the Secchia Center medical education building, a $90&nbsp;million, seven-story, {{convert|180000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} facility, at Michigan Street and Division Avenue, part of the [[Grand Rapids Medical Mile]]. The building is home to the Grand Rapids Campus of the [[Michigan State University]] College of Human Medicine. This campus trains medical students through all four years of their medical education. The state-of-the-art facility includes clinical examination rooms, simulation suites, classrooms, offices, and student areas.<ref name="http://news.msu.edu/story/8262/">{{cite news |last1 = Kelley |first1 = Geri |last2 = Cody |first2 = Jason |name-list-style = amp |date = September 10, 2010 |title = College of Human Medicine Trnasforms Medical Education with New Secchia Center |publisher = Michigan State University |url = http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2010/college-of-human-medicine-transforms-medical-education-with-new-secchia-center/ |access-date = August 21, 2017 |archive-date = June 10, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160610135157/http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2010/college-of-human-medicine-transforms-medical-education-with-new-secchia-center/ |url-status = live }}</ref>