Grinnell College is an undergraduate, four-year, coeducational residential college that seeks to develop in students analytical and imaginative thinking in the liberal arts. The college exists to serve students directly and society indirectly. The college's ultimate goal is to educate citizens and leaders for our republic and the world beyond our borders. To this end Grinnell graduates should be equipped to pursue successful careers, satisfying personal lives, effective community service, and intellectually satisfying and physically active leisure. Selective in admission, the college strives to be a multicultural residential community open to the intellectually qualified who want to participate. Grinnell fosters critical independence in the context of a community that expects and respects intellectual and social diversity. We support and encourage a faculty of active scholars whose primary mission is to teach.