The Grinnell College Division of Student Affairs (DSA) will not cut funding for print student publications for the 2024-2025 academic year. Under a new and evolving budget process over the coming weeks, media heads at campus publications will negotiate with representatives from Student Government Association (SGA), Grinnell Concerts, Pedal Grinnell and KDIC for portions of.
Grinnell College will not reduce overall funds available to student organizations, which includes student publications, for the 2024-25 academic year, according to a statement released by the College on Tuesday, April 23. The statement did not clarify if student publications will be able to draw sufficient funds from the overall student organization budget to fund.
We, the Grinnell College Student Publications and Radio Committee (SPARC), are publishing this editorial as a statement of solidarity to oppose the elimination of our print editions. We believe that the presence of our print publications on campus is not only valuable to the greater Grinnell community, but essential to our very ability to perform.
For Ali Levine `24, receiving the first print editions of GOGUE, Grinnell’s recently established fashion magazine, was a magical experience. “Having a physical version of all the hard work that you do is so empowering and so meaningful for people to see themselves and see people in an actual physical copy, it’s like something.
This is a developing story. All information is accurate as of 1:30 a.m. Friday, April 19. Student publication members are concerned Grinnell College will no longer fund print editions of their publications next academic year. Media heads at The Scarlet & Black (The S&B), GOGUE, The Grinnell Review, Grinnell College Press, The Sequence and Grinnell.