Calvin College - Prism Yearbook (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Ironically enough, the Broene Center suffers from an identity problem. Even though the Center is down the hall from the Business Office, many stu- dents. when asked, cannot say where it is located or what it does. In order for the Center to serve the student body better, students must know how to make use of its facilities. The Broene Center offers the student personal and career counseling by a qualified staff: Joan Laarman, George Zuiderveen. and Larry Teitsma, the director. Facilitating the growth of the total person is their purpose and in achieving that purpose they work with the personal, emotional. and develop- mental problems of students. Furthermore, seminars and work- shops are held periodically to deal with a variety of topics which include among other things, marriage prepara- tion. the Christian self-image, procrast- ination, and test anxiety. Another serv- ice of the center is an up-to-date resource center with files containing information on over four hundred career possibilities. In sum, the Broene Center aims to serve not only those who face problems and decisions but anyone who wishes to enrich his life. The Academic Success Program Office is also located in the Broene Center. This program, directed by Kathryn Blok, focuses on the person as a student. with a central purpose of providing basic college-level reading and study skills. Many of the students who use the services of the Academic Success Program are on academic pro- bation: however, the services are not limited to them alone. Anyone who seeks to improve academically is wel- come to use the resources available, which include help with reading skills, special classes in English and mathe- matics and tutoring by peers in most basic courses. The Broene Center wants to serve you' .Q Q, yu George Zuiderveen assists a student with a problem

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Yet. even though the administration is very responsive to the internal needs of the college. one wonders what exter- nal leadership it provides. After all. Calvin College must ultimately look outward, not inward. Calvin College is a Christian institution which exists in the world so that it can witness to that world. Surely, this witness is more than simply sending out academically trained graduates Why have so many other Christians never even heard of Calvin College? Why does the newly instituted Five Year Plan proposed by President Diekema, which delineates Calvin policy for the next five years. seem concerned mostly with drawing students to Calvin? How has Calvin College, as an institution, come to grips with its task to witness to politics, to farming, to economic policy? God works not only through individ- uals but also through groups and insti- tutions. Calvin College, like other Christian institutions, must struggle to see that its witness is carried out through the institution as well as through the individual. The adminis- trators who more than anyone else are aware of Calvin's status as an institu- tion are best suited to see that Calvin fulfills this mandate. i HK- 'rx 'QW Larry Teitsma, Director and Counselor in the Broene Center

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