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I had just returned from AAC&U’s annual meeting in D.C. on “reaffirming higher education’s public purpose” when the new administration announced a pause on federal grants. I’d planned to write…
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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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Lily Burrows ’26 explores career as museum curator with Rice County Historical Society Outside link
7 January 2025Lily Burrows ’26 explored the past this summer as an intern at the Rice County Historical Society in nearby Faribault, Minnesota.
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Dialogue and Democracy: Reflections from Student-Led Community Conversations about Voting
13 November 2024My name is Suwannee and I’m a junior fellow in the Peace, Conflict, and Democracy (PCD) cohort of the CCCE. Conversations and dialogues have become a very important part of…
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CCCE By the Numbers
1 November 2024Academic Civic Engagement The CCCE supports faculty in developing course-based projects that put students’ academic skills in service of community partners’ priorities. Carleton offers about 20 ACE courses each term…
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In addition to the CCCE’s core programming and services, this fall we’ve been working with campus partners to ensure voting-eligible students are ready for the November 5 election. While most…
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ACE Faculty Interview with Adriana Estill
14 October 2024CCCE Associate Director Emily Seru recently interviewed Professor of English and American Studies Adriana Estill about her reflections on a new Academic Civic Engagement (ACE) course designed over two years…
