Students

Carleton's liberal arts education prepares young women and men for leadership in their communities, countries, and the world. To continue attracting and supporting a diverse and talented student body, Carleton is committed to:

• Ensuring affordability and accessibility for Carleton students, including additional grant aid to reduce need sensitivity in admissions.
• Achieving cultural, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity at Carleton that better reflects our country and the world.
• Funding the College's growing commitment to global initiatives through grant support for international students and additional program support for all students.
• Supporting student development through wellness programs, new and renovated housing and dining facilities, and staffing and program support for our increasingly pluralistic student body.

Faculty and Staff

Carleton professors help students grow intellectually and personally, accomplish their educational goals, and leave Carleton prepared for the next phase of their lives. Our faculty are among the best in the country, and they need sufficient professional development resources throughout their careers.

Carleton's professional staff provide essential support for Carleton's educational goals, and their work is critical to the success of the College's programs, students, and faculty. To support faculty and staff members, Carleton is working to:

• Achieve a healthy student/faculty ratio and workload that allows faculty members to engage students effectively and sustain themselves professionally throughout their careers.
• Support ongoing professional development of Carleton faculty and staff.
• Build and sustain competitive compensation for faculty and staff that allows us to recruit and retain high quality employees from diverse cultural, racial, ethnic, and socio-economic backgrounds.
• Selectively increase the number of technical and academic support staff.

Liberal Arts

Carleton's world-class liberal arts education requires a wide variety of resources for academic programs, facilities, and equipment, including:

• Innovative curricular and pedagogical resources for faculty and student research, service learning activities, internships, interdisciplinary programs, faculty collaboration and team teaching, off-campus field trips, and integration of fundamental literacies and skills throughout the curriculum (writing, speaking, reading, information literacy, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning).
• Teaching, learning, and community gathering spaces, including a center for the arts, support for Gould Library as a campus intellectual and academic center, and ongoing maintenance of older academic and administrative spaces.
• Technology and library support with sufficient funding for campus-wide information technology for teaching, administration, and student life, new library materials, and access to electronic information.
• Accessible buildings throughout campus, including both new and existing facilities.