Hayley Klinger is a senior Business Management major at Grove City College. Over the summer of 2015, Hayley had the privilege of interning with one of America’s largest global information technology companies in the nation, Hewlett Packard at their Little Rock, Arkansas headquarters. She tells of her road to landing the internship, the influence the […]
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A Journey from the Grove to the Globe: Alumni Spotlight on Valerie Perry
What does it take to navigate your career path? Valerie Perry (‘07), a technical production specialist at National Geographic, knows that getting a job you love requires courage to pursue opportunities and willingness to learn from a variety of experiences. As a Grove City College student, Valerie was a double major in Communication Studies and […]
VentureLab Business Spotlight: LunchTime
While Grove City College has a wide array of majors and fields of study, one that particularly stands out and offers students some interesting and unique opportunities, is the area of Entrepreneurship. VentureLab, which is a program offered to the entire campus community through Grove City’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, allows students to explore […]
Q&A With Redbox Missionary Adrienne Scrima
Senior Communication Studies major Adrienne Scrima is currently studying abroad at the King’s College in New York City. This past summer Adrienne was one of the students accepted into Grove City College’s unique Redbox Missions program, where accepted students are granted funds to complete mission work of their choosing throughout the summer. Why did you […]
Streamlined: Politics to the Point
Politics. The word conjures a feeling of complexity. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard a variation of “I don’t even know, it’s too complicated” in response to political current events. However, this response will not suffice for much longer. As college students, politics is transforming from something we learned in our […]
Rigorous Academics at GCC: A Student’s Perspective
I’m a person who likes to do it all. When I was in high school, I always had the longest spiel at every senior night, leaving the announcers breathless as they rattled off every sports team, club, and activity in which I had participated for four years. Naturally, when I was about to start my […]
Grovers Abroad: Samantha Parry
During her sophomore year at Grove City College, Samantha Parry (‘16) received an e-mail inviting her to apply to the college’s study abroad program in Nantes, France. Samantha, who had always wanted to visit Europe, decided that this opportunity was too good to pass up. The following year, Samantha spent the fall semester with twenty […]
Faith, Freedom, and Family
Faith and freedom are the founding principles that Grove City stands on, but after being on campus you’ll come to realize that it also stands for Family. Grove City seems to attract generations of students following in their parents’ or siblings’ footsteps. Why is that? What makes high school students want to come to the […]
The Second Annual Innovation Club Christmas Party
For those who don’t know, the Entrepreneurship Department can throw a great party, as is evidenced by the success of the innovation club’s second annual Christmas Party at Beans on Broad. The party featured many key events, including games like Settlers of Catan and Bananagrams, a white elephant gift exchange, a chili cook-off, and of course an […]
Transfers to the Grove: Jen Kerr
Jen Kerr ’16 is a Psychology major and is minoring in Social Work, and she transferred to Grove City in the fall of 2013. What college did you transfer from and why? I transferred from the Community College of Allegheny County. I wasn’t sure exactly where I wanted to go after graduation and the community […]