Stories & Updates

We are looking for Carleton students to act as Camp Sol counselors for the summer of 2010. Camps will run a total of ten weeks from June 21 to August 26, and students must be able to commit five afternoons per week. Stipends are available and students must make their interest in the program known by April 9^th. For more information, please contact Adrienne Falcon (afalcon@carleton.edu).

Debate for democracy! Students are invited to submit legislative letters that address current public policy issues to Project Pericles’ Debating for Democracy (D4D) 2010 National Conference.

Census Director Robert Groves, who called Carleton’s Latin American Poster Contest a “great way to get the word out about the census,” officially kicked off the Census count today in a remote Alaskan village.

To encourage participation in this year’s Census, Academic Civic Engagement is collaborating with the Art Gallery’s Latin American Posters Exhibit in sponsoring a Census poster competition inspired by the rich tradition of this form of visual communication.

This Winter, Carleton is running a trial program providing students doing community-based work study or working on Academic Civic Engagement projects free taxi vouchers within Northfield for Taxi First Choice.

Ranging from Northfield to the Niger river delta, Carleton students in Professor Trish Ferrett’s Abrupt Climate Change class have been giving voice to important issues relating to climate change. Come…

Carleton student Mahal Burr has been working with non-profit org Children’s Culture Connection to facilitate a letter writing program between Iraqi children and students in the Cannon Valley Public Schools. A book about the correspondence entitled Dear Friend: U.S./Iraqi Kids Connect is being published and Burr will be signing copies at an event tomorrow.

Announcing a winter workshop for faculty members about civic engagement at Carleton: December 10, from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM and December 11 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Carleton Public Health Vista and ACE staff member Mohamed Bakri will be accompanying students to a public forum this Thursday, Oct. 29 at 6:30 pm about the Minnesota Health Plan, a statewide plan to provide comprehensive healthcare for all Minnesotans. State Senator John Marty will be present to discuss his proposal and field questions from the public. Interested Carleton students, faculty, or staff should contact Mohamed via e-mail. Transportation will be provided. Read on for further details about location and schedule.

This past Wednesday, Adrienne, Beth, and I attended the Rice County Joint Government Meeting, where representatives from the County Commission and all of the municipalities got together to discuss issues of shared importance. Federal Census representatives were present and helped clear up some confusions about the 2010 Census. That night’s discussions also gave rise to a number of ideas about how Carleton could get involved in ensuring that Northfield and Rice County achieve a complete and representative count.