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Title: Renaissance
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. Considers the rebirth of arts, politics and culture in Florence known as the renaissance.
Date Created: 1999
PID: grinnell:3458

Title: Resolutions Adopted by the Faculty of Iowa College
Description: A response issued by the Faculty of Iowa College to the resignation of Professor George D. Herron
Date Created: 1899
PID: grinnell:18364

Title: Review of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Description: Review of the book Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up, by David Colander and Roland Kupers (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Date Created: 2020
PID: grinnell:27807

Title: Rise of Majority-Minority Districts in Rural Iowa: How Changes in Meatpacking Impacted Rural Schooling, How Changes in Meatpacking Impacted Rural Schooling
Description: This study analyzes several rural school districts in the state of Iowa that have experienced relatively sudden demographic shifts in recent years with schools shifting from an almost totally white, English speaking population to a continually growing number of Hispanic and ESL/LEP students.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:121

Title: Rosenfield Program Internship Grants
Description: Announcement of the application deadline for summer internship funding offered by the Center for Careers, Life, and Service.
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27800

Title: Russia in Revolution, Tutorial, Fall 2001, First year tutorial, Fall 2001
Description: The first year tutorial, taken in the fall semester, is Grinnell College's only general academic course requirement. The college intends the tutorial to assist students in further developing their critical thinking skills and in improving their written and oral communication skills. Each of the tutorials offered in a given fall semester is based around a particular subject matter, which provides the vehicle by which the above goals are accomplished. This tutorial focuses on the literature and art of the Russian Revolutionary period.
Date Created: 2001
PID: grinnell:3459

Title: Russian Public Opinion: Mass Perspectives on the United States and China in 2010
Description: This paper considers how the Russian people feel about the world around them and about the two most significant actors in it, the United States and China.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:124

Title: Ruth Ley to Jimmy Ley - February 1, 1944
Description: Ruth talks about her husband's job and the health of her son, Dave. She then starts to write about family friends and the well being of their children. Currently, Sue is in the hospital with pneumonia. Ruth mentions how proud everyone is that Jimmy is recieveing both the Air Medal and the Oak Leaf Cluster, but is sad that he couldn't return home for his furlough.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26502

Title: Ruth Ley to Jimmy Ley - February 17, 1944
Description: Ruth complains about a toothache from a bad cavity and chats about a shopping trip with friends. She then writes about her brother Vic who was able to connect with an old college buddy who is also in service in the Pacific. After explaining how ecstatic Vic was, she tells Jimmy that David has sent him a valentine.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26503

Title: Ruth Ley to Jimmy Ley - February 22, 1944
Description: Ruth talks about washing day and taking care of Dave, her son. She mentions her brother, Vic, says congrats to Jimmy on his medal and believes Vic and Jimmy could be good friends. Lastly, she writes about her excitement for the spring.
Date Created: 1944
PID: grinnell:26488