We love all our children equally

Jul 27, 2012
Posted by:  Jim Reische

In my last post I compared website development to a family dinner: it’s…

Harry Hopkins 1912

Web Audit

Jul 26, 2012
While we were spending a lot of time on the back-end of our web management, our site grew, organically, freely, and not necessarily coherently.

Moving to Drupal

Jul 23, 2012

We assembled a big representative committee with representatives of students, faculty and staff, looked at several systems, from proprietary to open-source, from commercial to free, and discussed…

One big (happy?) family

Jul 18, 2012

 

There are some peculiar challenges in building a college website. One of the biggest is the fact that colleges—and thus college sites—have to serve multiple constituencies.

Barons of Beefe and Billy the Kid

Jul 13, 2012

On my second day at the archives, I pulled open a drawer that was literally overflowing with event posters from the last 50 years of Grinnell's Art and Music departments. Many of these were…

CBS Benefit Basketball Game

Jul 06, 2012

 

I discovered this photo in the Concerned Black Students archives, and wanted to post it for a couple of reasons. This was taken during a CBS versus faculty basketball game, held as a…

The Caffe Del Foro

Jun 27, 2012

by Sam Dunnington '14

Anywhere I can eat mozzarella sticks until my head starts to hurt is a place I'm happy to be, but sometimes the Spencer Grille leaves me wanting for finer cuisine. I…

College contemplates wind turbines to lower carbon footprint, costs

Apr 24, 2012

The Grinnell College Board of Trustees initiated a series of studies at its February meeting designed to result in a wind farm to supply power for college use. College officials are now preparing…

Notes from a Comments Watcher April 2012

Apr 10, 2012

As the strategic planning year draws to a close we ponder what sort of document the plan might generate.  The full compilation of ideas, emails, data, minutes of group meetings, and other…

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