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Carleton to host 2011 Debating for Democracy workshoop
14 December 2010On 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.
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2011 Debating for Democracy Conference seeks letters to legislators
13 December 2010Have 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.
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Minnesota Campus Compact highlights work of Carleton student
10 December 2010Charlotte Turovsky ’11, a Carleton senior and ACE Student Assistant, is one of Minnesota Campus Compact’s featured students. Charlotte attended the Campus Compact’s student leadership retreat this past October, and was part of a team of students were finalists in the Project Pericles Debating for Democracy 2010 policy letter contest in the Spring.
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Growing Up Healthy, a coalition of organizations and agencies seeking to increase the level of community connectedness experienced by marginalized families with young children in Rice County, is one of three finalists out of over 200 contenders for a $25,000 grant from the Bush Foundation—but they need your help to win it! The winner is selected through public online voting in the InCommons Collaboration Challenge, which ends on December 10. Vote online now to support one of Carleton’s key community partners: http://www.incommons.org/en-us/CollaborationChallenge/finalists
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Northfield Transit Corridor Summit at Carleton’s Great Hall
25 October 2010On Tuesday, October 26th, local community leaders will meet at Carleton’s Great Hall to discuss possibilities for the development of Northfield’s Transit Corridor, including express bus and potential passenger rail service between Northfield and the Twin Cities. Charlotte Turovsky, Daniel Levy, and Logan Nash, who presented on transportation policy at the Project Pericles Debating for Democracy conference last Spring, are helping to facilitate the event.
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2009-2010 ACE Newsletter
14 October 2010The 2009-2010 ACE newsletter has been released. This 6-page update reflects on some of the growths and accomplishments in civic engagement at Carleton over the past…
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Student research on food and poverty in Northfield featured in Washington Times posting
30 August 2010Consultant and Washington Times writer Donna Rae Scheffert wrote about the federal free and reduced lunch program last week, using student research in Northfield as a source
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ICAP science program in the Northfield News
20 May 2010This week’s edition of the Northfield News features a front page article about the ongoing cooperation between the Northfield High School ESL program and Carleton’s Academic Civic Engagement office to…
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Nat Turner ’93 will host two Carleton students this summer in New Orleans, LA at Our School at Blair Grocery where students will help and assist with rebuilding a community…
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Carleton student making connections between Minn/Iraq children
10 November 2009Carleton 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.