Carleton College’s mission is to provide an exceptional undergraduate liberal arts education, and it is centrally tied to three core elements: our diverse residential community, the ‘freedom of inquiry and expression,’ and the college’s most fundamental goal, which is to help develop ‘qualities of mind and character that prepare its graduates to become citizens and leaders capable of finding inventive solutions to local, national, and global challenges.’
Faculty diversity is not only reflected in the demographic diversity of our faculty, who come from all over the United States and the world, but also in the research and scholarship they produce, as well as in the vast selection of courses they teach. Come and explore our intellectually engaged community, where faculty help ‘students acquire the knowledge necessary for the continuing study of the world’s peoples, arts, environments, literatures, sciences, and institutions’ and to engage fully in the life of the mind with each other and the rest of the community.