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Summer Internships 2026
5 January 2026Northfield and Faribault are home to many amazing nonprofits, educational and governmental entities. The CCCE has worked with some of our regular community partners to bring you a curated list…
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Alternative Spring Break ’26 Applications Open
19 December 2025Applications for the CCCE’s 2026 Alternative Spring Break trips are now open! These student-led trips offer 8-12 students the opportunity to address and reflect on social justice issues that impact…
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Carleton Connects: The College and the local community Outside link
15 December 2025Carleton and its local community are deeply interconnected, and the College not only cultivates but thrives on good relations with its neighbors. From the economic impact on Rice County to…
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ACE Student Profile: Ian Rock-Jones in Deep Mapping Course
3 December 2025Austin Mason’s HIST338: Deep Mapping course is not a conventional history class. While typical hallmarks of history courses may include stacks of books and intensive JSTOR usage, Mason’s fall 2025…
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Cracking the Code on How to Work with Colleges
19 November 2025Even though there are two colleges in Northfield and lots of students around, it’s not always easy to figure out how to connect with them. We’re on a mission to…
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Carleton Summer Internship Timeline for CCCE Community Partners
17 November 2025November/December: Develop position postings with Erica Zweifel December: Postings go live on Carleton’s Handshake platform. Carleton uses Handshake for their jobs/careers platform. January/February: Priority deadline for applications (Jan), with the…
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Training Student Leaders: A Recap of CCCE Fellows Training
17 November 2025The CCCE hired 35 fellows this year—what do they do? Each academic year, CCCE Fellows lead 24 volunteer programs in the community, work on initiatives related to our core issue…
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CCCE By the Numbers
14 November 2025Academic 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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Where’s the Broom Fellow?
13 October 2025Some of you have asked about the status of the Broom Fellowship for Public Scholarship, so I’d like to use this note to share where that stands. Professor of Spanish…
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When most people think of spring break, they picture beaches, sun-soaked selfies, and maybe a little too much sunscreen. But for 21 Carleton students, spring break looked a little different—in the best possible way.
