17 Facts About Grinnell College

Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States.

Grinnell College manages significant real estate adjacent to the campus and in the historic downtown, a free-access golf course, and the 365-acre Conard Environmental Research Area.

In 1882, Grinnell College was struck by a tornado — then called a cyclone, after which the college yearbook was named.

In 2022, Grinnell became the first fully unionized undergraduate school in the U S, when student workers voted to expand their dining hall workers union to include all student workers.

Grinnell College is located in the town of Grinnell, Iowa, about halfway between Des Moines and Iowa City.

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Grinnell College has recently embarked on a significant period of new construction, which is expected to last until 2034.

Grinnell College had 173 full-time faculty in Fall 2020, all of whom possess a doctorate or the terminal degree in their field.

Grinnell College's admission selectivity rating, according to The Princeton Review in 2018, is a 95 out of 99.

Grinnell College is one of a few dozen US colleges that maintain need-blind admissions and meets the full demonstrated financial need of all U S residents who are admitted to the college.

Grinnell College offers a large amount of need-based and merit-based aid in comparison with peer institutions.

In February 2005, Grinnell College became the first Division III school featured in a regular season basketball game by the ESPN network family in 30 years when it faced off against the Beloit Buccaneers on ESPN2.

However, under "The System, " Grinnell College has won three conference championships over the past ten years and have regularly placed in the top half of the conference.

Taylor scored 109 points in a November 2013 game against Crossroads Grinnell College to become the first player in NCAA history to have two 100-point games.

Students at Grinnell adhere to an honor system known as "self-governance" wherein they are expected to govern their own choices and behavior with minimal direct intervention by the college administration.

The Alternative Break program takes students to pursue service initiatives during school holidays, and as of 2005, Grinnell had more alumni per capita serving in the Peace Corps than any other college in the nation.

Grinnell College has an entirely student-run textbook lending library on campus.

In 2016, Grinnell students founded the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers, or UGSDW, to represent student workers in the college's dining hall.