Stories & Updates

Summer is getting closer, but it’s not too late to start figuring out your plans. Here are some ways to get involved with the local community over break: Camp Sol…

Kate Adkins’s work on public health projects started in an unexpected way: tutoring. “I really wanted to be in the community,” the senior Biology major recalls…

Monday, February 14^th

5:30-7:30pm

Leighton 305

Liz Kuoppala and Mike Thorsteinson, two leaders on housing issues in Minnesota, will be featured in the 2011 Civic Engagement Series through an event entitled “Housing and Inequality: Issues and Next Steps from Leaders in the Field.”

“At first, I was skeptical of how tutoring would work,” says Ned Heckman ’13, remembering when he started his Educational Psychology course last fall. “But I realized that a lot of what we talk about our classes can be futile if we don’t try to experience it.” As part of the course’s academic civic engagement component…

Thursday, January 27th, 7:30-9:00pm, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room

Professor Abdi Kusow, a noted sociologist who has written extensively about African immigrants to North America, will be giving a talk entitled “Somali Immigrants in the United States: Conceptualizing Transnational Migration in a Stateless Global Context.”

Northfield High School is looking for students to help mentor its robotics team. The school’s Industrial Technology department recently received a $6500 grant to build a robot and compete at…

Northfield News currently has an opening for a reporter intern as well as a multi-media intern–someone who is well-versed in photography, video and the Internet.

Carleton students are also invited to…

Come hear student panelists explore what motivates them to perform civic engagement and how their beliefs and values influence the type of service they do. Pizza and discussion included!

The panel…

On Saturday, January 29th  at 10AM in the Great Hall, Carleton will be hosting the Debating for Democracy on the Road Conference. “D4D on the Road” is a 6-hour training workshop sponsored by Project Pericles that can help leaders and activists discover the power of using stories and connecting through values to mobilize support, persuasively communicate, and motivate people to act. An RSVP is required.

Have something to say to your elected representatives? Write a letter to them this Winter, and you and your group could win a chance to present your issue to a panel of current and former federal legislators in New York City.