ACE News
Fullbrights: First Two Winners Announced
April 28, 2013 at 1:23 pmCarleton Partners with Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center
April 28, 2013 at 1:06 pmNorthfield Streets Policy Named Top 10 in Country
April 11, 2013 at 3:48 pmPhysics major Betsy Cannon ‘11 attends Hacker School
March 1, 2013 at 3:08 pmCarleton Helps Launch New Science Olympiad Team
March 1, 2013 at 3:00 pmDebating for Democracy Workshop Brings Together Local Students
December 11, 2012 at 9:41 pmThis 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
November 13, 2012 at 12:00 pmThe 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
October 11, 2012 at 2:22 pmIn 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.
Academic Civic Engagement Comps Lunch, 10/11 Noon
October 9, 2012 at 9:59 amCome for pizza, talk to others who have similar projects, and get support for your community engaged comps project.
Periclean Progress Newsletter
June 25, 2012 at 12:29 pmRead the latest issue of the Periclean Progress Newsletter.
Empty Bowls Fundraiser featured in Northfield News and Northfield Patch
May 14, 2012 at 12:42 pmDiverse group gathers to discuss health care and HealthFinders
February 29, 2012 at 11:52 amOn 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.
