The liberal arts are central to Grove City College’s promise of an academically excellent, Christ-centered education and nowhere else on campus is the teaching of those critical disciplines more concentrated than in the Staley Hall of Arts and Letters.
It serves as the College’s main classroom building and home of the Calderwood School of Arts and Letters. It features a dramatic three-story atrium with the College seal inlaid on the floor and the Sticht Lecture Hall, one of the largest academic gathering spaces on campus.
Built in 2002 to replace the former Calderwood Hall, the Hall of Arts and Letters was part of a campus building boom that also included Breen Student Union across the courtyard, Rathburn Hall, Colonial Hall Apartments and the renovation of Carnegie Alumni Center. It was rededicated in recognition of alumnus and entrepreneur Richard Staley ’62 in 2021. MORE>>
Staley Hall is the home of the Winklevoss School of Business, established in 2024 with the College’s first bitcoin gift. It encompasses both the practice and theory of the free market, stressing the Austrian school of economics championed by our legendary professor Hans Sennholz.
The College’s well-regard Education Department, which has been training teachers since 1876, is also headquartered in Staley Hall, where it maintains an extensive curriculum library and pre-school. Other disciplines with a presence include English, History, Biblical and Theological Studies, Modern Languages, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, and Nursing. While Staley Hall is relatively new to campus, the knowledge it contains spans the history of the universe, from Genesis to Revelation, and the breadth of human experience, from marketing to metaphysics and entrepreneurship to English literature.
That broad scope of knowledge is essential to the pursuit of truth and the development of wisdom, which inspired one of the most distinctive elements of a Grove City College education. In the early 1970s, the College enlisted a group of humanities professors to develop what has become the core curriculum, a series of required courses that explore the great ideas, events, personalities, and art that have shaped Western civilization within a Christian worldview.
This core and the integration of faith and learning across the curriculum have provided a unique academic foundation and collective experience for generations of alumni.