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April 15, 2013 Part of the Common Ground InitiativePanelists: Michael DeWilde, Barbara Elliott, Winston Elliott, Ted McAll...
America’s Fi...
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April 10, 2013America First Ladies an Enduring Legacy. Laura and Barbara Bush visit Grand Rapids....
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March 27, 2013Empathetic supporter of the sick and grieving, leading solidarity and laughter in Grand Rapids. First preside...
HW Brands – ...
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March 7, 2013H.W. Brands comes back to West Michigan to discuss the idea of presidential greatness. It turns out that Ameri...
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February 13, 2013 Transformational pastor, guiding at-risk youth from gangs to faith. Former dropout, gang founder, and cr...
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January 29, 2013The Gerald R Ford Presidential Library and Museum present Dr. Madeleine Albright on her history of diplomac...
Reagan’s Mos...
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January 29, 2013Hauenstien Center Director Gleaves Whitney discusses how President Reagan's most important foreign policy d...
The Reagan Preside...
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January 29, 2013Get a behind the scenes look at the new PBS documentary The Reagan Presidency. The films producers Chip Dun...
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January 16, 2013Entrepreneurial, Baptiste-trained, hot power yoga instructor. Co-founder and owner of the Funky Buddha Yoga...
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Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, t...
Hank Meijer on the...
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Vandenberg biographer Hank Meijer explores the lessons of Vandenberg’s statesmanship for our times....
The Lost Art of Bi...
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November 14, 2012The Hauenstein Center teams up with the National Endowment for the Humanities and World Affairs Councils o...
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November 7, 2012Culture-builder, teacher, and manager of change at GVSU. Dean of CLAS. Executive director ...
Election 2012 – ...
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October 29, 2012Whatever the breadth and depth of their disagreements, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney conc...
CLA Leader Lens...
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In this innovative series of leadership seminars, Hauenstein Center Director, Gleaves Whitney explores the history, theories, and tools of l...
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Visionary visual communicator and executive at Peopledesign. Clients: Amway, Herman Miller, and Steelcase; GRAM, UICA, and ArtPrize. Empathe...
Untold Story of th...
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If citizens think politics are nasty nowadays, they were arguably nastier in 1787 when America’s new frame of government was bruited about...
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Design-thinking entrepreneur, bringing big ideas to life.Credits: SEED Collective, 5×5 Night, ArtPrize. Experienced collaborator, founder, ...
Is Christianity Go...
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Today, many argue that religious liberty is under assault while others believe that faith is meant for the private realm and its public expr...
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Entrepreneurial, idea-producing, TED-type wunderkind who's helping spark an intellectual, cultural, and economic renaissance in West Michiga...
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Twenty-something community advocate and entrepreneur who juggles four cell phones for the sake of her four family restaurants, catering oper...
War President: Jam...
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Professor Donald R. Hickey of Wayne State College in Nebraska is highly respected as one of the nation's leading experts on the War of 1812....
Ask Gleaves Leader...
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February 29, 2012Be prepared. The story of the leader is often a morality play. There are countless cautionary tales from h...
The Big Scrum: How...
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February 21, 2012 John Miller's story is about college football in its infancy...
Pocketbook Predict...
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February 7, 2012 Pocketbook variables are almost always good indicators of ele...
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Politician, famed policy wonk, and Snyder cabineteer, with board and courtroom credentials. Keeps allies and opponents on their toes. Curren...
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Health care leader and teacher who rose from nurse's aide to registered nurse to pediatric neurologist, before joining the academia. Athena ...
Building Your Inna...
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January 13, 2012 Dean H James Williams - Building Your Innate Leadership Skill...
Learning to Lead i...
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December 7, 2011 The Leadership Life Cycle is one way of structuring the huge topic of leadership. Try to identify where y...
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December 1, 2011The Leadership Life Cycle is one way of structuring the huge topic of leadership. Try to i...
JFK Through Jackie...
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November 22, 2011 Jason Duncan November 22, 2011 - “Why does the Kennedy mystique endure?” asks Gleaves Whitney, direc...
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January 11, 2011Luisa Schumach r | Thriving YP and executive director of the West Michigan Center for Arts and Technology. ...
Ask Gleaves Leader...
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Throughout the academic year, Hauenstein Center Director Gleaves Whitney teaches innovative leadership seminars that explore the history, th...
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October 19,2011 Mark Murray | Sector-smashing leader who served as director of Michigan's Department of Management and Bud...
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September 28. 2009 Argentina-born artist and architect who has traveled the world and speaks five languages. Former presid...
Benjamin Franklin ...
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America was fortunate that Ben Franklin was one of its founders. Although his origins were humble, ambition and talent carried him far in bo...
John Adams: Fortun...
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July 5, 2011John Adams wasn't born silver spoon in hand, and at the end of his life he was buried in a modest, granite tomb...
Inside the Nixon W...
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He was born to Howard Ellis Cox and Anne Crane Delafield Finch Cox in Southampton Hospital in Southampton (village), New York and spent his ...
HW Brands – ...
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Henry William Brands was born in Oregon, went to college in California, sold cutlery across the American West, and earned a graduate degrees...
HW Brands – ...
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HW Brands - American Ulysses: The Journey of General Grant. Presented by the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies....
Luncheons with Lea...
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April 6, 2011Christina Keller is an expert in sustainable global enterprises and a project manager at Cascade Engineering. ...
Ron Chernow: Washi...
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The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies presents Ron Chernow - on his Pulitzer prize winning book, Washington a Life....
What Happened to t...
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March 22-23, 2011 Presented by: W. Robert Connor, two events 3/22/11, 7PM & 3/23/11, 1PM - Provide by GVSU's Hauenstei...
COL Ralph W. Hauen...
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Grand Valley State University, through its Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, is proud to present its most prestigious award - the ...
Reagan’s Her...
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In this one-of-a-kind event that celebrates Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, we are hosting four actors who brilliantly portray the four Amer...
