President's Messages News

Grinnell College President Anne F. Harris congratulates the Class of 2022 at the closing of their commencement ceremony.

There have been a series of conversations between student leaders of the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) and College leadership.

Grinnell College and Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers (UGSDW) have successfully reached a neutrality agreement to govern a possible election related to expanding the student union.

Iowa House File 2416, which prohibits female transgender athletic participation, contradicts our Grinnellian values.

President Anne F. Harris on the rapidly escalating situation in Ukraine and the campus community response.

Myrna Y. Hernández will join Grinnell in July 2022

Beronda L. Montgomery, an internationally recognized plant biology researcher and expert on mentoring in science, will join Grinnell in July 2022

As we conclude our semester, we continue to experience and seek to acknowledge the many ways that the pandemic has placed sustained stress on the mental and physical health of our community. The intensity of our communal experience calls for action out of the ordinary to provide a change in pace and time for relief. Time is simultaneously among the most valued and the scarcest of elements of the academic experience, and the action detailed below seeks to institute a demonstrable change of pace for each of us to advance our well-being within our work — a moment to breathe in our hectic schedules.

Anne F. Harris talks about her new book, the significance and relevance of Medieval art today, the transition from teaching to administration, what it's like to head a premiere liberal arts college in the age of Covid (and all else), and her vision for Grinnell. An Authors and Artists podcast episode.

President Anne F. Harris’ adress at the re-dedication of the Edith Renfrow Smith ’37 Student Art Gallery, brought forward through the research and dedication of Feven Getachew (’24) and professor Tamara Beauboeuf.