Financial Future Update Winter 2013

Dec 20, 2013

In February 2013, the Grinnell College Board of Trustees approved a historic motion regarding Grinnell College’s financial future.

The vote came after months of open…

Theatre of Social Responsibility

Dec 20, 2013

I arrived at Grinnell knowing only that, whether as a historian or a chemist or a theatre artist, I wanted to make the world a better place. My Grinnell experience intensified my desire to fight…

Academic Tweeting

Dec 20, 2013

When writing a paper or struggling through a dense reading, sometimes it is helpful to turn to another resource for assistance. Unfortunately for me, that resource is often Facebook or Twitter,…

Historic Figures:

Sep 20, 2013

A century ago, Grinnell College boasted an enrollment of barely 500 students, nearly all of them Iowans and two in five natives of Poweshiek County. Today the institution draws students…

Digital Grinnell

Sep 20, 2013
“Digital Grinnell and similar systems encourage more democratic sharing of knowledge,” says Richard Fyffe, the Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Librarian at Grinnell.

Welcome to Forum:

Sep 20, 2013

Whatever happened to your first-year roommate? That brilliant lab partner?

Your senior crush? Finding classmates and old friends is easy on Forum, the College’s…

www.grinnell.edYOU

Sep 20, 2013

With input from a survey sent to 54,000 site users — including more than 14,000 alumni — the College has engineered a complete redesign of www.grinnell.edu. The streamlined site is not only more…

Eight Lessons from the End of Life

Sep 20, 2013

In the 21st century, many of us are living longer, dying more slowly, and, more important, dying differently than our ancestors. Based on her book, the author offers advice on handling a…

Welcome!

Sep 20, 2013

In July, Donald Tom became the College’s director of information technology services.  

Tom comes to Grinnell with extensive experience in the application of…

Interdisciplinary Economics

Sep 20, 2013

Drawing from fields as diverse as economics, political science, psychology, and sociology, Professor of Economics William Ferguson ’75 lays out a complex argument in his first…

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