Grinnell Magazine Web Extras

Winter 2011

For more information on (or to respond to) the following The Grinnell Magazine stories, please visit the following links:

Editornotes — Page 2

Download The Grinnell Magazine Winter 2011 (PDF)

Email the editor.

Letters — Page 3

Read more letters to the editor.

Submit a letter to the editor.

Explorations: Self-Governance — Page 8

Read more about self-governance at Grinnell.

Climate Change Is Here and Now — Page 10

Read the full text of the letter David Campbell signed.

Learn more about the ACUPCC pledge that President Kington signed.

Assessing Student Learning — Page 11

Email the Assessment Task Force.

The Grinnell Prize — Page 13

View videos on the winners’ visit to campus.

Learn more about the Grinnell Prize.

The “Grinnell Soul” — Page 20

Comment on Grinnell’s distinctiveness or on the strategic planning process.

Learn more about strategic planning at Grinnell.

Read the full text of the “Inside Higher Education” post on a survey of 130 liberal arts college presidents.

A Liberal Education — Page 26

Read the full text of Geoffrey Galt Harpham’s Grinnell speech, From Eternity to Here , on which this article was based.

A Better Way to Teach Science — Page 30

Read the full text of the article by Tom Cech ’70, on which this essay was based: Science at Liberal Arts Colleges: A Better Education?.

The Father of Silicon Valley Sidebar — Page 33

Read the full text of the article, by Tom Wolfe, quoted in this sidebar.

Classnotes — Page 38

Email to submit a classnote.

Visit the Grinnell College alumni website.

Meet Your Meat — Page 40

Learn more about Kol Foods.

Bookers to the Bands — Page 42

Learn more about Ground Control Touring.

Learn more about the Windish Agency.

In Memoriam — Pages 44-48

Contribute remembrances about Grinnellians.

Read additional remembrances about Grinnellians.

Fall 2011

• Remembering Hans Wynberg
• "I Built the PEC" by Mitch Erickson ’72

Spring 2011

• Deconstructing the Physical Education Center (PEC)

Winter 2010

• Establishing Home Rule: The Use of Self-Governance in 1960s Grinnell
• Funny Bits from the B&S

Fall 2010

• Interview with Comedian Kumail Nanjiani ’01
• Women and Drought 101
• New Year, New President

Summer 2010

• Tips for Surviving the Recession
• Selah celebration reflects on the past
• Nine Years of Kevin Cannon '02 Cartoons
• The Scarlet and Black turns 115

Spring 2010

• Video of the Announcement of Grinnell's New President
• Grinnell College Welcomes a New President
• Timeline: A Presidential History of Grinnell College
• A Baseball Family
• Pfitsch’s Pfishes
• Haiti Post-Earthquake
• Immortal Emilie, by Erika Graham ’10
• Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn

Winter 2009

• 150 Years — A Historic Postcard Slideshow of Campus
• Holbrook — Reports from Baghdad: Some Excerpts
• Holbrook — A Grinnellian's Story
• Holbrook — The Magical Place
• Holbrook — Images of Vietnam
• Holbrook — Iraq Project Update
• Challah-Making Workshop
• Jewish at Grinnell: My Experience by Deborah Rabinowitz Ericson ’71
• Jewish at Grinnell: My Experience by Naida C. Tushnet ’61
• Inside the “Death Panels”
• Pittsburgh to Grinnell to Help Plan My 50th College Reunion and Back
• Reviewing Tosca