Category: Profiles of Engagement

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.

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…

Assistant 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…

Sinda Nichols ’05 Named Director of the Center for Community and Civic Engagement Center at Carleton College

As winter draws near, elementary school kids got one more shot at exploring the outdoors. The Environmental Systems cohort led their annual Fall Fest Field Trip the other week, in collaboration with Green Thumbs, Art Sprouts, and Kids for Conservation.

Every two years the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability holds a conference to help colleges and universities exchange information about their sustainability efforts. Read about Carleton’s first time hosting the event.

When Professor Annette Nierobisz describes her own academic path to applied sociology—her preferred form of civic engagement—it’s always as “rather circuitous.” For many people, their paths to public scholarship are inherently so; there’s no clear way to foster what Imagining America defines as “diverse modes of creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities,” which is part of what makes the field so interesting, innovative and exciting.

With the ideal of reciprocity at its core, civic engagement is one of the many directions Carls take their skills in collaboration, both during and after college.

Read about how 2015 alum Vayu Rekdal developed the Young Chefs program and how he has continued this work.

CCCE Fellows from each focus area reflect on the challenges of promoting student involvement in civic engagement and the rewards of collaborative projects.

An up-and-coming leader in the Carleton community helps run a Habitat for Humanity trip in Waterloo, Iowa