Occupation College administrator | Name Arend Lubbers | |
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Born July 23, 1931 (age 93) ( 1931-07-23 ) Milwaukee, Wisconsin Employer 1969-2001, President of Grand Valley State University1960-1969, President of Central College (Iowa) Spouse(s) m. Eunice L. Mayo, June 19, 1953 (div.)m. Nancy Vanderpol, December 21, 1968 Children with Eunice: Arend Donselaar, John Irwin Darrow, Mary Elizabethwith Nancy: Robert Andrew, Caroline Jayne Parent(s) Irwin Jacob and Margaret (Van Donselaar) Lubbers Awards Golden Plate Award, 1962Golden-Emblem Order of Merit, Polish Peoples Republic, 1988Trustee's Award for Community Leadership, Aquinas College, 1998Lifetime Achievement Award, Economic Club of Grand Rapids, 2001named 1 of top 100 young men in U.S., Life (magazine), 1962.LittD, Central College, 1977DSc, University of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, 1987LHD, Hope College, 1988DSc, Akademia Ekonomiczna, Krakow, Poland, 1989DSc, University of Kingston, England, 1995LittD, Grand Valley State UniversityLittD, Olivet College, 2008.Arts Building at Central College named after Lubbers and his father Board member of Macatawa Bank Corporation, Hackley Hospital, Olivet College Similar People Thomas J Haas, Mark Murray, James Zumberge, L William Seidman | ||
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Arend Donselaar "Don" Lubbers (born July 23, 1931) was president of Grand Valley State University (and predecessor Grand Valley State College) from 1969 to 2001. He was the second president of Grand Valley, serving after James Zumberge and before Mark Murray. He currently holds the title of President Emeritus. Most of the university's growth came during his tenure.
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- Grcc works for kent county promo arend lubbers statistics
- Grcc works for kent county promo arend lubbers opportunities
- Early life
- Grand Valley State University
- References
Grcc works for kent county promo arend lubbers opportunities
Early life
Lubbers graduated from Hope College, where his father Irwin Lubbers was president, and received his master's degree from Rutgers University in 1956.
He taught at Wittenberg University .
He served as president of Central College in Pella, Iowa, until he became Grand Valley's president.
Grand Valley State University
Lubbers became president of what was then Grand Valley State College at the age of 37, making him one of the nation's youngest university presidents.
The university expanded from a small cluster of colleges to Michigan's fastest growing university.
Lubbers Stadium on the Allendale Campus is named for him.
When he retired in 2001, Lubbers was the longest serving state university leader in the country.