Grinnell College

1210 Park Street, Grinnell, IA 50112-1690 -  View Map

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• Grinnell College has been named one of the 20 best liberal arts colleges in the country for the past nineteen years by U.S. News & World Report. Its student body comes from 50 states and 54 other countries, making Grinnell's 120-acre campus a cosmopolitan haven in the heart of the Midwest.
• Grinnell College has an attractive 120-acre campus of spectacular academic facilities that include the Noyce Science Center, featured in architectural journals; the new Athletic and Fitness Center; the Joe Rosenfield '25 Student Center; and the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, designed by Cesar Pelli. The College also owns the 365-acre Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), located about 14 miles from the campus and used on a regular basis for research and teaching.
• The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
• Profile last updated: 12/17/2009.

In the News:

• F.C. Student Graduates from Grinnell College (Falls Church News-Press)
  posted on July 6, 2011 at 03:32:15 am
  Caroline Kory of Falls Church graduated from Grinnell College on May 23 as one of 347 members of the Class of 2011. Read more...
• MLC graduate Isaac Edward Prahl awarded $10,000 scholarship from the Jewish Guild for the Blind (The Oregonian)
  posted on July 5, 2011 at 09:07:42 pm
  Prahl will use the scholarship at Grinnell College this fall.
• Del Mar residents graduate with assorted degrees, earn honors (Del Mar Times)
  posted on June 30, 2011 at 04:08:36 pm
  Amanda T. Muskat has been named to the Grinnell College Dean’s List for the spring semester 2011. Muskat, who is majoring in French/history, is one of approximately 260 students honored for outstanding academic achievement by Grinnell College.
• Memories of Clarence Clemons (CNN)
  posted on June 20, 2011 at 09:21:08 pm
  On Sept. 20, 1975, I sat 10 feet from Clarence Clemons for four hours, as Bruce Springsteen and E Street Band rocked Darby Gym on the campus of Grinnell College, a small college located in an Iowa town of the same name. The band had been booked a year earlier for what now seems a [...]
• Preparing students to change the world (Asheville Citizen-Times)
  posted on June 12, 2011 at 05:36:50 am
  RAYNARD S. KINGTON, M.D. and Ph.D., was inaugurated on May 7 as the 13th president of Grinnell College. In these excerpts from his inaugural address, To read the address in full or watch it as a video, go to www.grinnell.edu/inauguration.

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