Grinnell College

Grinnell College, based in Grinnell Iowa, is an undergraduate, four-year,

coeducational residential college emphasing analytical and imaginative

thinking in the liberal arts.

Grinnell College dates

from June 10, 1846, when a group of

transplanted New Englanders with strong

social-reformer

backgrounds organized as the Trustees of Iowa College a few

months before Iowa was admitted as a state.

Iowa College moved from Davenport, Iowa, to the town of Grinnell and

unofficially adopted the name of its new benefactor, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (to whom Horace Greeley gave

his famous advice, "Go West, young man").

In 1909 the name Grinnell College was adopted by

the trustees for the institution itself.

Famous alumni of Grinnell College include Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel Corp.