• Carleton ranks first overall among four-year liberal arts colleges in the number of students who go on to earn the Ph.D. in the natural sciences and mathematics (first in the earth sciences, first in chemistry, first in physics/astronomy, first in the biological sciences; and fifth in mathematics) and Carleton is the only college ranked in the top 10 in all fields of the natural sciences and mathematics. (Source: The National Research Council for its Survey of Earned Doctorates, 1986-95, 10-yr. period)
  
  
• Carleton is first among national liberal arts colleges with 39 alumni who have received National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships since 1996.

Carleton’s Commitment to Teaching:

• In 1995, in a one-time only ranking, U.S. News & World Report ranked Carleton’s faculty number one among national liberal arts colleges in terms of "an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching." The magazine asked college presidents, provosts, and deans of admissions to assess the quality of teaching at colleges similar to their own, and Carleton came out on top.
  
  
• Four faculty who consistently receive high marks from Carleton students:
  Arts & Literature: Susan Jaret McKinstry, professor of English
  Humanities: Harry Williams, professor of history
  Social Sciences: Roy Grow, professor of international relations
  Math & Science: Tricia Ferrett, professor of chemistry
  (see below for more information on these professors)
  
  
• Carleton placed eighth this year in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the best colleges in the country. This was the fourth consecutive year Carleton has ranked among the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the nation. Carleton ranked fifth in academic reputation, which is determined by surveying college presidents, deans and admissions directors at schools similar to Carleton.
  

Carleton’s Commitment to International Understanding:

• For 30 years, Carleton has been a leader in broadening its on-campus curriculum with off-campus study programs. Approximately 65 percent of Carleton students participate in off-campus study at least once during their four-year tenure. During the academic year 1998-99, 358 students, or 19 percent of the student body, took part in domestic and international programs in 45 countries. Fifty-four percent of those students studied on off-campus seminars led by Carleton faculty; 12 percent studied on consortia programs, and 34 percent were participants in programs sponsored by other U.S. institutions or foreign universities.
  
  
• Beginning in fall 2000, a new program in cross-cultural studies will encourage comparative study of differing cultures and will enable Asian and American students to live and work in an increasingly global society. The students in this program will have the opportunity to foster new levels of self understanding and cultural awareness, prepare for positions of leadership and develop friendships that go beyond the classroom. A $5 million grant from the Starr Foundation supports this initiative.
  
  
• Carleton ranks number seven nationally on the list of smaller colleges and universities with graduates currently enlisted in the Peace Corps. There are 17 Carleton alumni in the Peace Corps today, according to the service organization’s 1999 listing of volunteers.

Arts & Literature: Susan Jaret McKinstry, The Helen F. Lewis Professor of English
Ph.D.: University of Michigan

McKinstry joined the Carleton faculty in 1982 and teaches courses on Jane Austen, the Victorian novel, Victorian poetry and painting, narrative theory, film adaptation, and literary theory. She is the editor of "Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic" (1991), and has published articles on Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, Faye Weldon, and Ann Beattie, among others. She also is a poet. Her current research explores the "sister arts" of poetry and painting in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites.

Humanities: Harry Williams, associate professor and chair of history
Ph.D.: Brown University

Williams has taught at Carleton since 1989. He is a former journalist who is currently working on a biography of journalist George Schuyler. He has special interests in African-American urban culture and the African-American press, and offers courses from rap music and hip-hop culture to Black Conservatism. He recently was selected to participate with 24 other American scholars in the 2000 Fulbright German Studies Seminar "History and Memory: Jewish Past and Present in Germany," to be held this June and July in Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Munich. Williams has had a long-standing interest in the similarities and divergences between Jewish persecution during the Holocaust and African-American experiences with slavery.

Social Sciences: Roy Grow, The Frank B. Kellogg Professor of International Relations
Ph.D.: University of Michigan

Grow joined the Carleton faculty in 1979. This spring he was in China leading the Beijing Political Economy Seminar, a Carleton off-campus studies program. For a program on Minnesota Public Radio, Grow spoke last week from Beijing about permanent normalized trade relations from the Chinese perspective. Grow specializes in Chinese and Japanese politics, as well as the international politics of Asia. He directs Carleton’s international relations program and teaches courses in Chinese politics, Japanese politics, Russian and Soviet government, international relations, political economy, and Marxist thought. He is fluent in Chinese and Japanese.


Math & Science: Tricia Ferrett, associate professor of chemistry
Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley Teaching Interests:

Since 1990, Ferrett has sparked students’ interest in chemistry. She teaches courses ranging from the introductory level (with topical modules and active/collaborative learning) to the advanced laboratory sequence, including physical chemistry, environmental and atmospheric chemistry (ozone hole), Lasers and Spectroscopy, and chemistry and art. She involves undergraduates in research and she and her students have designed and built a vacuum system with a time-of-flight mass spectrometer and an electron detector to study the mechanisms of fragmentation in small gaseous molecules like CF2Cl2 and C4F8.