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Title: Adoption of the No-Requirements Curriculum
Description: Paper by Beryl E. Clotfelter, Professor Emeritus of Physics, on the history of Grinnell College's no-requirements curriculum and the establishment of the first-year tutorial.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:27788

Title: Alternative Introductions to Applied Statistics for Mathematics Students, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 90-008
Description: At many colleges a typical mathematics student's introduction to the field of statistics consists of the standard two semester sequence in Probability and Statistics. Indeed, at many smaller colleges, there are the only courses in statistics available for credit towards a math major. A group of statistics educators, with support from the Sloan Foundation's New Liberal Arts Program, has been investigating alternatives to this approach. Our goal is to capture the interest of mathematically talented students and encourage them to pursue further work in statistics. We believe that this goal can be addressed by developing an applied statistics course which exposes students more quickly to the joys of data analysis, emphasizes the applications of statistics, and utilizes their ability/interest in mathematics. The need for such an alternative course, potential pitfalls in its development, and several specific models for its implementation will be discussed.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26691

Title: Alumni Oral Histories: A Collaboration Between the Libraries and Development and Alumni Relations
Description: This article describes a collaboration between Grinnell College's libraries and its Office of Development and Alumni Relations
Date Created: 2019
PID: grinnell:27777

Title: Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the Trustees of Iowa College
Description: Amendment to the rules and regulations for the establishment of Iowa College dated 1852
Date Created: 1852
PID: grinnell:77

Title: American Memorials, American Memorials: Tutorial, Fall 2002
Description: In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack in the United States, many people have proposed memorials to mark the site of the tragedy, especially at the World Trade Center. Why does the American public feel the need to commemorate sacrifice, and why is there a debate over the proper form of public memory? This tutorial will explore these questions and will put the current debate in the context of a long tradition of public memorials in America.
Date Created: 2002
PID: grinnell:3426

Title: American Memorials and the Politics of Memory, American Memorials and the Politics or Memory: Tutorial, Fall 2004
Description: In the post-September 11 United States, public memory has taken on heightened social importance. Plans for several September 11 memorials are well under way, and the public recollection and commemoration of the events of September 11 have taken on a large role in American political discourse. Why does the American public feel the need to commemorate sacrifice, and why is there a debate over the proper form of public memory?
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:3428

Title: Anna Lee Freeman to Lucille Ley - February 13, 1945
Description: Anna Lee writes to ask Lucille if she has had any news about Jimmy. She talks about how she recieved her son's personal items the other day and how hard it was for her to read his letters. She mentions it has now been almost a year since the crew's mission failed.
Date Created: 1945
PID: grinnell:26511

Title: Applied Introductory Statistics Courses for Mathematics Majors at Liberal Arts Colleges, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No.90-002
Description: The need for an applied introductory statistics course for mathematics majors at liberal arts colleges id discussed. General characteristics for such a course are given and specific examples are described in the papers that follow.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26685

Title: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Original 1856 document detailing the rules and regulations for the establishment of Grinnell University
Date Created: 1856
PID: grinnell:76