From the President
At Carleton, we are passionate about teaching the liberal arts. Carleton is home to about 1,900 of the world's finest students, talented and hard-working students who possess the key Carleton virtues of engagement and abiding intellectual curiosity.
Your gifts allow our students and faculty to flourish together in and out of the classroom, providing the resources they need to become exceptionally creative and dynamic leaders.
Your support makes possible Carleton’s greatest strengths today and our loftiest ambitions for tomorrow. These include our proud tradition of innovative and interdisciplinary teaching and research, our expanding global reach, our historic commitment to providing access for exceptional students from all backgrounds, and our new efforts to push the boundaries of what it will mean to negotiate a newly visual world of learning in the years ahead.
Carleton alumni are giving back in numbers almost without parallel in American higher education, demonstrating both the affection they hold for the College and their stellar leadership in ensuring that Carleton will continue providing a world-class liberal arts education far into the future.
As I never tire of saying, Carleton is not about facilities and endowments and numbers; Carleton is about people. Carleton is the talented and engaged student whose dreams of a Carleton education are fulfilled solely because of your generosity in funding financial aid.
Carleton is the talented and engaged professor whose dedication to teaching is as strong as it was when our alumni studied with equally remarkable teachers from earlier decades.
And Carleton is the engaged steward of the future—the alumni, parents, students, and friends who remain highly committed and engaged with the Carleton of today and tomorrow.
Carleton is all of you, and for this I am profoundly grateful.
Robert A. Oden Jr.
President, Carleton College