Features

From flowering crabapples to sycamores, birches, and firs, the trees dotting Grinnell’s campus have served as familiar landmarks — as well as beloved spots to climb, make art, and meet for class — for generations of Grinnell students.

As new learning spaces dedicated to humanities and social studies rise up on the Grinnell campus, so are conversations springing up about what those disciplines commonly identified as “the humanities” mean to our lives.
Elfenbein: It’s the study of how people make sense of their lives, but importantly, what it is that they produce to communicate, and how they communicate what it is they’re thinking about and experiencing.

Megan Crawford, assistant dean and director of advising and exploration, shares the ways that the Center for Careers, Life, and Service prepares students for life beyond graduation.

Meet our candidates running for public office.
Florin Cîţu ’96 steps into public service as a fiscally conservative senator in Romania.

Helping low-income students overcome the challenge of textbook expenses.

Motivations and benefits aren’t always obvious or predictable

Studying in another country can influence your choices, your direction, and your outlook long after returning home, in ways large and small.

ACLU lawyer Amy Miller ’93 helps passionate advocates forge their own paths

Now, years after Grinnell opened Miller’s eyes to the injustices of the world, Grinnellians continue to feed her passion for righting the world’s wrongs.

The entrepreneurial journey in three easy steps