Griswold College

Aug 10, 2012

We recently received an interesting question regarding the relationship between Griswold College, in Davenport, IA, and Grinnell College, and whether Grinnell had ever been called Griswold. We had…

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. So we decided to take the next, long overdue step:…

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…

The Accidental Poet

Jun 13, 2012

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