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Grand Valley Spotlight
Valerie Peterson, Ph.D, Associate Professor, School of Communications
At Grand Valley, people teach to their strengths. Some colleges try to standardize via textbooks ...
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Grand Valley's First-Rate Faculty

Grand Valley is known as a premier teaching institution where professors have a passion for sharing their expertise, their time, and their knowledge with students. These talented people come to Grand Valley from some of the country's leading institutions in order to teach at a university where students come first. Our faculty have excellent academic credentials, unparalleled dedication, and active engagement in their scholarship and disciplines, leading them to be energized, accessible, and responsive to students. 

  • Talented and highly credentialed faculty are dedicated to teaching
  • Faculty are actively engaged in their disciplines
  • Faculty care about students, frequently developing mentoring relationships that last long after graduation
  • Faculty, not graduate students or teaching assistants, teach at all levels