October 3, 2023 – Funding Experiential Education

27 September 2023

Experiential education encompasses internships, fellowships, research, and independent exploration. Students often ask faculty and staff for guidance on what they can do and how to fund their experiences. This session…

May 16, 2023 – Academic Civic Engagement in the Humanities

18 May 2023

Academic Civic Engagement is widely recognized as a high-impact practice, but it can be challenging to formulate projects with clear benefit to both students and off-campus partners, especially in disciplines…

Feb 21, 2023 – ACE Faculty Reflections on “Critical Service-Learning”

24 February 2023

Faculty members from the humanities and STEM fields at Carleton who have incorporated ACE components into their courses will reflect on and host small group table discussions on critical approaches…

April 5, 2022: Climate Change Throughout the Curriculum

13 April 2022

Climate change is transforming our civilization in fundamental ways. How can we help our students confront transformation? No single discipline owns this multifaceted problem.  It has relevance to every field…

Jan 25, 2022: Leveraging the Power of Civic and Community-Based Learning in a Time of Change

18 February 2022

At a time of enormous change in the world, the United States, and particularly within higher education, should we be rethinking everything we know about community-based learning, or should we…

Jan 18, 2022: Evidence-based Strategies for Navigating a Polluted Information Environment

20 January 2022

While education is often framed as a necessary bulwark against the threat of misinformation, a mounting body of evidence shows that common approaches to teaching media literacy and critical thinking are…

October 6, 2020: Climate Action Plans and Course Collaborations

13 October 2020

Carleton College’s 2011 Climate Action Plan has a goal to be carbon-free by the year 2050 and the City of Northfield just passed it’s own plan to be carbon- free…

Feb 25, 2020: Travel Seminar

26 February 2020

The Center for Global and Regional Studies (CGRS) helped to organize a faculty travel seminar around the theme of (im)migration, and 15 participants spent 10 days last June in Montreal,…

Oct. 22, 2019: Feedback and Assessment in Collaborative Projects with Students

24 October 2019

Student collaborations with faculty and/or community partners provide unique venues for students (and faculty) to develop a variety of skills beyond those they cultivate in traditional curricular and research work.…

May 21, 2019: “Always Connect”: Public Scholarship and Community Engagement in the Real World

23 May 2019

We talk a good game about the benefits of directing our scholarly work at the broader public, and engaging our students in community-based learning, but what are the true benefits…

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