| 2000 |
| • Aquinas College/Circle Theatre collaboration is approved by the Board. |
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| 2001 |
• Community-based nursing program begins at Aquinas in collaboration with University of Detroit Mercy and Saint Mary's Medical Center. |
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| 2002 |
• Inauguration of Aquinas College Hall of Fame and Athletic Hall of Fame. |
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Aquinas College and University of Detroit Mercy team up to offer a community-based nursing program to West Michigan students. |
The Aquinas College Performing Arts Center |
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| 2003 |
• Aquinas College Performing Arts Center opens, a collaborative project of Aquinas, the Circle Theatre, and GR Catholic Secondary Schools. |
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| 2004 |
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Classrooms in the Academic Building and Albertus Hall
are outfitted with technology
equipment, housed in a single unit, which includes controls
for: ceiling mounted projectors which allow for classroom
presentations from the Internet, DVD/VCR viewing, sound
projection and Power Point presentations. |
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| 2005 |
| • The college breaks ground for The Grace Hauenstein Library,
a reconfiguration and expansion of the Jarecki Center
for Advanced Learning and Lacks Center. |
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| 2006 |
| • At a joint faculty-staff assembly in January, President Harry Knopke announces he will retire at the end of June to pursue other life options. A search committee is formed of the members of the Board of Trustees and the officers of the faculty and staff assemblies. During spring and summer, a nationwide search is conducted. |
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| • May 10 - Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney reads before an overflow crowd as the concluding event of the 2005-2006 Contemporary Writers Series. |
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• July & August - The library prepares to move to its new building. As part of the changeover, every title in the collection is re-catalogued from Dewey decimal to Library of Congress numbers. In late August, the move takes place, using a professional library-moving company to move the library holdings to the new, more spacious quarters in the Grace Hauenstein library. |
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| • September - The Grace Hauenstein Library opens its doors to the Aquinas Community. |
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Inside the Grace Hauenstein Library |
The Grace Hauenstein Library at night |
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| 2007 |
| • May 23 - The Board of Trustees announces that C. Edward Balog, Ph.D. has been appointed as the College's sixth president. Dr. Balog has served as interim president of Aquinas since July 1, 2006. He was elected unanimously at the Board of Trustees meeting on May 22, 2007 and assumes this role effective July 1, 2007. |
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| • October 26 - Festivities are held across campus to celebrate the inauguration of C. Edward Balog, Ph.D. as the sixth president of Aquinas College |
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Patrick Miles, Jr. (left), Chairman of the Aquinas College Board of Trustees, and Monsignor William Duncan (center), Vice Chair of the Aquinas College Board of Trustees, congratulate Dr. C. Edward Balog during the inauguration ceremony. |
President Balog with students at the Viva Balog! celebration. |
