[3] The university also features campuses in Grand Rapids and Holland and regional centers in Battle Creek, Detroit, Muskegon, and Traverse City.

Private donations, including $350,000 to purchase land and $1,000,000 for construction, were secured from 5,000 individuals, organizations, and business throughout West Michigan.

After complaints from some at Grand Valley State College and the surrounding communities, the Ottawa County, Michigan, sheriff arrested the editor, and the prosecutor closed down the newspaper office.

Eventually, Michigan's Attorney General settled the case out of court, siding with the college[21] because the Lanthorn's content was considered covered by Freedom of Speech.

Michigan Governor William Milliken signed the law changing the institution's name to Grand Valley State Colleges in 1973.

However, the "s" was dropped and the name was reverted to Grand Valley State College in 1983 when the academic programs were reorganized into divisions.

[22] The 1980s and 1990s saw addition of satellite campuses or centers in downtown Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Holland, and Traverse City.

Money raised during the campaign has helped fund many construction projects on campus, including the Mary Idema Pew Library and the L. William Seidman Center.

Land purchases in 2012 included property in downtown Grand Rapids adjacent to the medical mile for healthcare program expansion.

Lubbers Stadium, the GVSU Fieldhouse and all other athletic facilities for the school's 20 varsity sports are also on the Allendale campus.

The campus houses continuing education programs in 30,693 square feet (2,851.5 m2) of building space and contains 12 classrooms, 2 conference rooms, 3 labs and 11 offices.

[3] The fall 2014 incoming freshman undergraduate class of 4,199 students, represented 80 Michigan counties, 23 states, and 20 countries.

[54] Grand Valley also has baccalaureate program accreditation with AACSB, ABET, APTA, CSWE, NASAD, NASM, NCATE, and NLN.

The honors college is in the Glenn A. Niemeyer Learning and Living Center on the south side of the Allendale campus.

[3] In 1995 Peimin Ni (Chinese: 倪培民; pinyin: Ní Péimín) established GVSU's Shanghai, China study abroad program, and by the 2000s he and Geling Shang (商戈令; Shāng Gēlìng) co-lead it.

Daniel Golden, author of Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities, stated that the organizers initially had trouble finding interested students.

[65] GVSU's undergraduate admissions are classified as "more selective" by U.S. News & World Report as Grand Valley admitted 69% of applicants for the 2008–2009 school year.

[79] The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine maintains the Secchia Center, a medical campus in downtown Grand Rapids.

The library was one of only 24 projects in the United States receiving the assistantships that was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

[93] Seidman House on the Allendale campus houses the University Archives, which include extensive collections of rare books and Michigan novels, the Harvey Lemmen Collection on Abraham Lincoln, the Young Lords project on line at Young Lords in Lincoln Park [1], the largest Latino oral history collection in the Mid-West by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, and the American Civil War, and the papers of acclaimed Michigan author Jim Harrison.

Most of the collection is on view and can be found throughout university buildings on campuses in Allendale, Grand Rapids, Holland, Muskegon, Traverse City, and Detroit.

[103] Grand Valley TV (GVTV) is the student-run television station on channel 46.1[104] on the university cable system, while uploading its content to YouTube.

[108] The New Music Ensemble (NME)[109] has released two critically acclaimed CDs, the first a recording of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians,[110] which appeared on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart, and the second entitled In C Remixed,[111][112][113] a remix project of Terry Riley's In C, which featured the work of some of the top electronic composers and DJs in the world, including Todd Reynolds, Michael Lowenstern, and Pulitzer prize winner David Lang.

"[122] Notable programs include a community garden near the Allendale campus that also serves as a laboratory for interdisciplinary learning called the Sustainable Agriculture Project[123] and the Sustainability Reinvestment Fund distributed in the form of mini-grants to students and staff with ideas that can improve the ecological footprint of the campus and community.

[121] The university has created a formal climate action plan and set a goal to reduce its 2006 level of greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020.

[124] Several more buildings including the new Mary Idema Pew Library are in construction or planning stages to be LEED certified as well.

The mission of the group is "Helping to engage students at Grand Valley's campus to be conscious citizens by promotion of environmental awareness.

[130] Grand Valley hosted meetings relating to sustainability, including a summit in which various sustainability issues were explored by university officials and local experts in April 2010,[131][132] and a meeting of the Michigan Great Lakes Wind Council in July 2010 to discuss offshore wind energy generation.

[3] The GVSU Lakers compete at the NCAA Division II level and offer 20 varsity sports including 11 for women and 9 for men.

Grand Valley is the first college east of the Mississippi River to win the Director's Cup for NCAA Division II.