Iowa College
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| Latin: Collegium Grinnellense | |
| Motto | Veritas et Humanitas (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Truth and Humanity |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1846 |
| Affiliation | none (historically related to United Church of Christ) |
| Endowment | $1.649 billion (2016) |
| President | Raynard S. Kington |
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Academic staff
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171 full-time, 38 part-time (Fall 2015) |
| Students | 1,705 (Fall 2015) |
| Location | Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. |
| Campus | Rural, 120 acres (0.49 km2) |
| Colors | Scarlet and Black |
| Nickname | Pioneers |
| Affiliations | Midwest Conference |
| Website | www |
 
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| University rankings | |
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| National | |
| Forbes | 73 |
| Liberal arts colleges | |
| U.S. News & World Report | 19 |
| Washington Monthly | 19 |
Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S., known for its rigorous academics and tradition of social responsibility. It was founded in 1846, when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College.
In 1843, eleven Congregational ministers, all of whom trained at Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, set out to proselytize on the frontier. Each man pledged to gather a church and together the group or band would seek to establish a college. When the group arrived in Iowa later that year, each selected a different town in which to establish a congregation. In 1846, they collectively established Iowa College in Davenport. A few months later, Iowa joined the Union.
The first 25 years of Grinnell's history saw a change in name and location. Iowa College moved farther west from Davenport, Iowa, to the town of Grinnell and unofficially adopted the name of its benefactor: an abolitionist minister, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, to whom journalist Horace Greeley supposedly wrote "Go West, young man, go West." However, Greeley vehemently denied ever saying this to Grinnell, or to anyone. The name of the corporation "The Trustees of Iowa College" remained, but in 1909 the name "Grinnell College" was adopted by the trustees for the institution.
In its early years, the College experienced setbacks. Although two students received bachelor of arts degrees in 1854 (the first to be granted by a college west of the Mississippi River), within 10 years the Civil War had claimed most of Grinnell's students and professors. In the decade following the war, growth resumed: women were officially admitted as candidates for degrees, and the curriculum was enlarged to include then-new areas of academic studies, such as natural sciences with laboratory work.
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