Posts tagged with “Academics” (All posts)
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CCCE Associate Director for Academic Civic Engagement and Scholarship, Emily Seru spent some time at the end of the fall 2024 term reflecting with Carleton Professor of Physics Marty Baylor about the ACE components of her Physics course Classical and Quantum Optics. Marty has been teaching this course since 2014, for a total of six iterations. In this interview she reflects on the importance of doing outreach well, the ways she scaffolds her ACE project, and what students and community partners have said over the years about the impact of the ACE project.
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Faculty Newsletter: Winter 2024
23 January 2024Winter Term ACE Gathering – February 20, 4-6pm Please join us for the winter gathering of faculty and staff involved in Academic Civic Engagement. These gatherings are intended to provide…
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How applicable is algebra to everyday life? One Carleton Math Comps Group set out to answer this question for two classes of Northfield students this fall and winter. Their Comps…
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Grassroots organizer and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore will deliver a convocation address on Friday, October 23 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. See our class discussion questions to accompany Gilmore’s address.
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Featured ACE Course: Intro to Indigenous Histories, 1887–Present
14 October 2020Assistant Professor and Andersen Fellow of American Studies and History Meredith McCoy has been at Carleton since fall 2019. This term, she developed a new Academic Civic Engagement class, Introduction…
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Class Discussion Questions for Alexander Heffner’s Convocation Address
30 September 2020On October 2, Alexander Heffner, host of PBS’ “The Open Mind,” will deliver a convocation address examining divisiveness in American discourse. See our class discussion questions to accompany Mr. Heffner’s…
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Many of this year’s convocation speakers are leaders in fields that intersect directly with civic engagement. Carleton students have a rich opportunity to make vital connections between these speakers’ insights,…
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Last week, through the collaborative work of the CCCE and ACE, Carleton students and staff released Quiet Town, a self-described “quarantine chapbook,” a collection of creative written pieces and visual…
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Professor Melanie Freeze and students examine the effectiveness of COVID-19 public messages
22 June 2020A spring 2020 political science course constructed an online experiment to explore the effectiveness of various public messages regarding the COVID-19 crisis.
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Carleton awarded federal grant to study educational experiences of Somali and Latino/a high school students
9 January 2019The $100K Community Conversations Research Grant will be used to study educational attainment in Faribault, Minn.
