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Title: Decline and Renewal in the Heartland, Tutorial, Fall 2004, Decline and Renewal in the Heartland
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. The arrival of European Americans in the Upper Midwest in the middle of the nineteenth century led to dramatic changes in the region's ecology. In what was perhaps the most rapid and extensive degradation of a natural ecosystem in human history, in the space of 50 years settlers plowed under millions of acres of the native tallgrass prairie and replaced it with a diversified agricultural ecosystem on what proved to be some of the best farmland in the world.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:317

Title: Environmental Coordinator Student Initiative
Description: A statement of student initiative, plan and background information surrounding efforts to make permanent the postion of Environmental Coordinator at Grinnell College.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:203

Title: Kumail Nanjiani '01, 2004
Description: Kumail Nanjiani ’01 was featured in the Summer 2004 edition of The Grinnell Magazine in a piece titled "Stand-up Guy" on pages 42-43.
Date Created: 2004
PID: grinnell:18774