From President Anne F. Harris | |
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Dear Parents and Families,
Greetings from the Middle of Everywhere!
It is my sincere hope that your student has had a great start to their spring semester and that they are looking forward to a spring break filled with discovery, adventure, and fun!
In this newsletter, campus partners and I are eager to share resources that Grinnell offers to help your student explore their interests, engage on and off campus, and nurture their mind, body, and spirit. The descriptions below contains reminders of important dates, opportunities for you to connect with Grinnell alumni and parents, and if you're in one of the cities for the forthcoming Grinnell Singers' tour, you can find that information as well!
One of the joys of a small college in a small town is that I meet students in both expected and unexpected places within our community and that we are able to connect and catch up. As we do, I am continually inspired by how deeply our students are learning and how broadly they are exploring. Those interactions and conversations make me proud of them and excited to see what they'll do next; your students fill me with hope for what is possible.
Warmly,
Anne
Anne F. Harris
President
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In Conversation Tour
We are excited to continue an event series featuring distinguished alumni and College representation. These events are designed to foster meaningful connections, provide insight into the Grinnell experience, and uplift inspiring stories from some of our talented alumni. As we finalize details, we encourage you to stay informed by reviewing event information as it becomes available on the In Conversation event series webpage. Details will be posted approximately six weeks before event dates. Your participation helps strengthen our community and we hope we can welcome you to an event near your hometown soon!
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Grinnell has fit swimmingly for Stambaugh Family
Despite the distance from their family home in Northern California, it didn’t take long for Regan Stambaugh ’26 to realize she made the right decision by attending Grinnell College.
“I think the thing that made us immediately like Grinnell was when Regan started on the swim team. Even before official workouts began, the team itself coalesced like a big family,” says Regan’s dad, Fred Stambaugh. “We’ve had experience with swim teams where the interpersonal culture wasn’t as supportive. But at Grinnell, she was really impressed how everyone welcomed the first-years as full-fledged members of the community.”
Two-and-a-half years later, Fred and Ginger Stambaugh continue to be pleased with how terrifically Grinnell has fit what their daughter was looking for in a higher education experience
Read the whole story.
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Come Together to Support Grinnellians April 9-10!
The power of a Grinnell education is exponential. Grinnellians care about the world around them, collaborating and innovating to make a difference, locally, nationally, and even globally! For ten years, Grinnellians have come together on Scarlet &Give Back Day, creating a ten-fold multiplier effect, where your impact prepares more Grinnellians for fulfilling lives.
Your support today makes an immediate difference for students, enabling rich educational experiences, hands-on learning, and engagement with the world. Gifts from generous donors like you can help students seize opportunities such as traveling to conferences with faculty to present research, benefitting from academic support services, or participating in Mentored Advanced Projects. In this 10th year of Scarlet & Give Back Day, you can multiply the impact of your gift!
Members of the Parents and Families Leadership Council will give $100 to the College in recognition of each of the first 600 gifts from parents of current students and alumni. Your gift can help the College receive up to an additional $60,000 to benefit students.
Join with fellow Grinnellians to make our 10th Scarlet & Give Back Day bigger and better than ever. Your support makes an immediate difference for today’s students and multiplies the long-term power of a Grinnell education in the world.
Donate now!
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Highlights from the Center for Careers, Life, and Service | |
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CLS Summer Internship Funding Program – Application Now Open
Each spring, the Center for Careers, Life, and Service (CLS) awards internship funding grants to support student participation in unpaid or low-paid summer internships. These grants are designed to help offset the cost of food, transportation, housing, and other related costs, and support students who otherwise may not be able to engage in these important experiences. Internship funding grants are competitive, need-based, and awards are not guaranteed. The summer 2025 application portal opened on February 3, 2025, with the first-round application deadline for funding specific to the Rosenfield Program due on March 25, 2025, and general funding round due on April 2, 2025. For more information on program requirements and eligibility please visit the CLS Summer Internship Funding Program webpage.
CLS Grants, Supporting Student Career Readiness
The Center for Careers, Life, and Service administers a series of CLS grants to help students participate in professional development activities, acquire professional attire for interviews, conferences, and related activities; and take part in interviews for a range of post-graduate opportunities (full-time positions, fellowships, graduate, and professional school, among others). These grants are need-based, and each of these grants is made possible through the generous support of the Daniel and Patricia Jipp Finkelman Deanship and other Grinnell College alumni.
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Grinnell College Receives 2024 Campus Prevention Network Seal of Prevention
The CPN Seal of Prevention™ recognizes institutions of higher education that demonstrate leadership in the areas of student safety, well-being, and inclusion.
Each recipient of the CPN Seal of Prevention™ has taken action to create a safer, more inclusive campus through comprehensive, evidence-based digital prevention education on issues such as sexual assault, alcohol misuse, mental health, and discrimination. Learn more.
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Intercultural Affairs Offers Opportunities for Mentoring, Leadership
The College's cultural centers, in partnership with Development and Alumni Relations, are excited to launch new alumni affinity mentoring opportunities to be offered annuallyfor Black and Latinx students. It’s not too late if your student is interested in joining this opportunity, to be offered annually.
Pride Week comes a little earlier at Grinnell College! The Stonewall Resource Center started the semester with opportunities for creative expression, community building, and games and dancing with LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff. Lots of opportunities to keep the warmth of Pride Week alive through the semester!
The Connie M. Kimbo Black Cultural Center advisory board and campus partners have collaborated to offer Black Joy Month, a month of intentional community that honors the historical and contemporary lived experiences of Black Americans. Movie screenings, dialogues, showcases, and so much more are planned to celebrate the Black Grinnellian experience.
The Multicultural Leadership Council (MLC) continues its legacy of exploring intersectional identity and participating in action-oriented dialogue. The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Student Government Association have partnered on many impactful initiatives to improve the student experience with the MLC’s guidance. In expanding our community, many members of the MLC joined us in conversation about intersectional identity at Crossroads of Identity at Central College with the BIPOC+ Coalition, a partnership of schools across central and south-central Iowa including Central College, Drake University, Grinnell College, Simpson College, and William Penn University.
As we lean into the semester, we’re also looking forward to the opportunities students might grow into in the fall. Applications to join student staff for the Peer Connections Pre-Orientation Program have launched; we’d love to see your student on our team! We’re also excited to announce a growing partnership with Residence Life, an expansion of residential affinity housing experiences (RAHE). RAHE experiences seek to create supportive learning environments for students to work towards their personal and communal goals around identity exploration, in community affinity. Students can apply to one of the four RAHE experiences for academic year 2025-2026 (Sawubona House: Black and Pan-African, Lavender Hall: LGBTQIA+, Latinx Cultural Center, and First-Generation Low-Income) via a link in their email. We hope you’ll encourage your students to join us as we reflect, connect, engage, explore, and strategize about our world and the worlds we create this semester and in the future.
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Campus Housing:
Important Dates from Residence Life
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Special Room Selection
These include three to seven person spaces in Cowles and Co-ops and Triples in Read and Haines. Students who are interested in these types of spaces will be able to sign up for special room selection. Applications Close March 24.
General Room Selection
Students who choose not to live in a specific affinity group, project house, or special room selection will participate in the general room selection. April 1-4, schedule depends on class year.
Learn More.
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News You Can Use
Education Credit/IRS Form 1098-T
On behalf of Grinnell College, ECSI provides the ability to easily access your 1098-T form online. Paper copies were mailed prior to Jan. 31, 2025. Questions regarding eligibility for education credits should be directed to a tax professional. Questions? Email the Office of Student Accounts.
If Grinnell does not have your SSN or taxpayer ID number, please contact the Office of the Registrar with this information to ensure accurate reporting of your tuition statement. Please do not submit this information via email.
2025-26 Need-Based Financial Aid Application Deadline is April 1
The deadline for domestic (U.S. citizen and eligible noncitizen) students who would like to apply for need-based financial aid for the 2025-26 academic year is April 1, 2025. General instructions are posted on the Financial Aid website, and students should check the online financial aid office (student login required) for their specific requirements.
International students who receive financial aid and domestic students who receive only merit scholarships do not need to reapply for the 2025-26 academic year.
Student Health and Wellness (SHAW) Programming
SHAW offers group counseling and regular programming geared toward specific needs, including mindfulness, DBT skills, healthy relationships, ADHD and Autism support groups, grief and current events support spaces, in addition to SHAW's ongoing services and resources. Both in-person and virtual options are available.
Check out the SHAW Programs page for more details and to register for trainings. Students can also call or email SHAW to request QPR or MHFA trainings for organizations or groups. We sometimes add groups/programs later in the semester, so take a look at our website for the most updated group listings.
Gear Up with The Pioneer Bookshop
The Pioneer Bookshop is a great place to shop for books for all ages, toys and games for the young, and a fun variety of gifts curated with Grinnellians in mind. Grinnell College apparel and swag make a great gift for your student. Shop online or visit us any time from 8:30 am to 5 pm Monday-Friday and 9 am to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Gift cards are available!
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News from the Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Social Justice (CRSSJ)
Welcome to Rev. Cassandra Lawrence, the CRSSJ's new Associate Chaplain!
CRSSJ offers a wealth of religious services, study groups, support groups, and events every week. Visit the CRSSJ web site for information about Black Church at Grinnell, regular Jummah prayer and Ramadan observances, and regular Shabbat services and dinner each Friday.
Encourage your student to sign up for the CRSSJ email list to hear about the latest offerings.
Questions? Please contact Rabbi Sarah Brammer-Shlay at brammershlay@grinnell.edu
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Helping Your Student Navigate Campus Resources
Grinnell prides itself on having robust campus resources, but how does your student know what’s available? We encourage students to connect with resources early and often, and the easiest way to know what is available is through the ‘Students’ tab on our homepage.
There you can find detailed information within six types of resources: academic resources, living on campus, social connections, financial services, health, wellness, and safety, and career exploration and preparation. Additionally, students are always welcome to connect with the Academic Advising office to find resources that will meet their needs.
Writing Center Resources Available
The Writing, Reading, and Speaking Center instructors offer feedback and support to students working on papers, presentations, research projects, internship and summer research applications, or job letters. Students can visit at any point in their process: planning, writing, revising. Reserve sessions using our appointment schedule.
Writing Mentor applications due Feb. 20
Students interested in working as peer writing tutors should apply to the Writing Mentors Program. More information about the position and program is available on the Handshake posting and the Writing Center website.
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Share Your Opinion About Grinnell!
In the coming days, you may receive an email inviting you to an online survey about Grinnell College. The online survey should take about 10-12 minutes to complete. A
This online survey is part of a comprehensive market research study being conducted by Grinnell College in partnership with SimpsonScarborough, a higher education research and marketing agency. The intention of this study is to gain insight into perceptions of Grinnell College’s present and future.
Your responses will be submitted directly to SimpsonScarborough and will be kept strictly confidential.
The email will come from SimpsonScarborough@research.simpsonscarborough.com. Your input is highly valued, and we hope you will choose to participate in this important research project!
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Current and New Exhibitions
Knowledge into Action: The Museum’s Collection as a Catalyst
January 7 – May 19, 2025
Each year, objects from the Museum’s art collection serve as inspiration for Grinnell College students for discussion, research, writing, art making, and exhibition projects. Knowledge into Action features artworks that have enriched the learning experience for Grinnell College students who have gone on to have careers in museums and the arts. This exhibition is presented in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Grinnell College’s Bucksbaum Center for the Arts.
BAX: The Bachelor of Arts Exhibition
April 17 – May 19, 2025
BAX features work in the creative arts by third- and fourth-year Grinnell College students. BAX is organized by the Art SEPC in collaboration with GCMoA staff and Studio Art faculty. Prizes are made possible by the Inez Louise Henely Memorial fund, Tammy J. Zywicki ’93 Memorial fund, Louis Glenn Zirkle Memorial fund, and the Henry-York Steiner Memorial fund.
Upcoming Events at the Grinnell College Museum of Art
Gallery Talk: Amy Kan ’27: Sonja Sekula’s Revisionist Zen
February 18, 4 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Milton Severe ‘87: 35 Years of Exhibition Design
February 26, 4 p.m.
Playing It Forward: Curating After Grinnell
March 4, 4 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Dr. fari nzinga, Curator of African and Native American Collections, Speed Museum, Louisville: Louisville's Black Avant-Garde 1950-1980
March 27, 4 p.m.
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Grinnell Singers Announce Spring Tour
The Grinnell Singers, under the direction of Conductor John Rommereim, will soon take to the road for their 2025 spring concert tour. The 50-member student choir from Grinnell College will present their program, The Light is the Same, in six cities across the Midwest from March 9–14. Learn more.
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Upcoming Public Events
From concerts to convocations, games to gatherings, you can find upcoming public events on the Campus Events Calendar.
Planning ahead? Check out Writers@Grinnell for upcoming events with writers of all kinds.
The Grinnell College Museum of Art is free and open to the public - from Yoga in the Museum to Gallery Talks and opportunities to meet the artists on display, you can see all Museum of Art events on the Campus Events Calendar.
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