ACE News :: Carleton College

Fullbrights: First Two Winners Announced

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:23:15 -0500

Carleton Partners with Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:06:32 -0500

Northfield Streets Policy Named Top 10 in Country

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:48:20 -0500

http://www.envisionmn.org/our-news/2013/4/8/northfields-complete-streets-policy-recognized-as-one-of-the.html

Physics major Betsy Cannon ‘11 attends Hacker School

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:08:48 -0600

Carleton Helps Launch New Science Olympiad Team

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:00:18 -0600

Debating for Democracy Workshop Brings Together Local Students

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 21:41:29 -0600

This election season, one thing seems clearer than ever: it’s hard to get a room of people to agree on anything related to politics. But on Saturday, September 22, 65 student activists from Northfield, Faribault, and the Twin Cities came together around a topic that everyone could support: political advocacy skills.

New Weitz Center Exhibition Showcases the Carleton College Election Study

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:00:00 -0600

The Center for Community and Civic Engagement, with support from the VIZ initiative, presents a retrospective of the Carleton College Election Study: Lights! Action! (Smoke & Mirrors?) CAMPAIGNS! The exhibit, which opens November 13 in the three Weitz Center White Spaces and will be up for one week, features the work of students in three Carleton courses analyzing media coverage of the elections since 2000. Students will be on hand from 12-1 to explain their posters and findings. Electoral cupcakes will be offered as treats.

Editorial: Collaboration in Northfield Helps Close the Achievement Gap

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:22:55 -0500

In a recent editorial about the achievement gap in the StarTribune, Northfield's TORCH (Tackling Obstacle, Raising College Hopes) was given a shout-out. Carleton and TORCH have a long-standing partnership in this work. With the help of Carls and Oles, this organization has made it possible for students in Northfield to raise the Latino graduation rate from 36 percent in 2004 to 100 percent in this past year.

Read the full article on the StarTribune website.

Academic Civic Engagement Comps Lunch, 10/11 Noon

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:59:25 -0500

Come for pizza, talk to others who have similar projects, and get support for your community engaged comps project.

Periclean Progress Newsletter

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:29:00 -0500

Read the latest issue of the Periclean Progress Newsletter.

Empty Bowls Fundraiser featured in Northfield News and Northfield Patch

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:42:02 -0500

Diverse group gathers to discuss health care and HealthFinders

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:52:00 -0600

On Saturday February 18th, Carleton students and faculty helped HealthFinders with a community gathering for input, as they open a new clinic for uninsured and low income individuals in Rice County. As part of Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg's Anthropology of Health and Illness course, students helped organize questions for the focus groups, which they will discuss in their end-of-term research papers. HealthFinders will then use the students' research to guide the creation of the new clinic.