ELT: January 19, 2026 – Office of the Provost

News | Advising | Grants and Fellowships | Conferences and Workshops

January 19, 2026

News

Carleton Career Summit

Faculty are invited to join students and alumni guests on Saturday, January 24 for the Carleton Career Summit. The event schedule has been redesigned for 2026 to make it easier for interested faculty to take part in the day. All events will take place in the Weitz Center for Creativity.

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Alumni and Faculty Reception / Student workshops
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m., Lunch and keynote address (Jean Freeman ’00)
12:45 p.m. – 1:20 p.m., Dessert and summer experience poster session
1:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m., Alumni industry panels
3:20 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Alumni/Student networking reception

The Carleton Career Summit is a one-day career conference designed to support students of all class years. Students have an opportunity to participate in skill building workshops, learn about career paths of interest, discover summer experiences pursued by their peers, and network with more than 40 dedicated Carleton alumni who will return to campus to share their career stories. Check out the Career Summit webpage for the most up to date list of alumni guests.

Showcasing Your Department: New Photography for the Web Redesign

With a front-end website redesign underway, the Division of Communications is working to ensure all academic departments have high-quality, recent imagery to make the most of our new photo-friendly web blocks as part of the new WordPress theme. These photos are also useful to have for other College collateral, such as social media, admissions, and alumni communications.

What to expect: Over the next six months, digital content producer Zach Spindler-Krage will be reaching out to departments with older or limited photo assets to schedule shoots for labs, advising, field trips, and other photo opportunities that highlight your department. Communications is also working to organize existing assets they’ve produced in recent years so departments have easy access to those.

A reminder: You can always find College produced photos in Imagen.

Coffee Hour and Peer-Assisted Learning

Do you supervise students who provide peer-assisted learning? Are you interested in meeting other faculty and staff in similar roles? Join us for a coffee hour in Schulze Cafe on Tuesday, January 27 from 2-3 p.m. Organized by Melanie Cashin (ASC), Amy Hutchinson (LC), Rebecca Terry (MSSC), and Lin Su Winton (QRC) with funding provided by the Provost’s Office. Unable to attend? Please join the teaching-with-students-community-of-practice.group@carleton.edu Google Group to learn about future events.

Advising

Supporting Your Advisees

Thank you for the many important ways you support your students and advisees. As this can be a particularly stressful time, we appreciate your help in reminding them that a wide range of campus resources is available. The Dean of Students Office and class deans, the Office of Health Promotion, Student Health and Counseling, and the Chaplain’s Office are all here to support our students. Please encourage them to reach out and seek support whenever they need it.

Sophomore Writing Portfolios

Sophomores should be talking to their advisers about their plans for the writing portfolios. For more on the writing portfolio and how to prepare it, see the guidelines on the Writing Across the Curriculum website. Make sure that your sophomore advisees understand the requirements and have run through the FAQs. You may find the Sophomore Portfolios video presentation especially useful for you and for your students. There is a handy spreadsheet that will help students assemble their portfolios. Additional questions may be directed to Professor George Cusack.

Keep in mind that students’ degree audits do not show that they have completed the writing portfolio until they have their portfolios scored during the summer. Portfolios are due on Friday, February 20 at 4:00 p.m. (the Winter deadline for Class of 2028 students going on OCS in the spring) and Friday, May 15 at 4:00 p.m. (the Spring deadline for the Class of 2028).

Review Your Rosters

Please be sure to do one last double-check to make sure your class rosters are accurate and reflect what you expect. Now is the time to have students reach out to the Registrar’s Office with any questions or concerns about registration errors. Students who have been manually added to Moodle course sites might not be officially registered in Workday. You can view your current class rosters in Workday by navigating to your Profile, clicking on the My Teaching App, selecting Carleton Class Roster and filtering to your assigned sections in the current term. A step-by-step guide is available online.

Academic Progress & Adjustments for Seniors

The Registrar’s Office recently emailed seniors regarding remaining degree requirements, diploma names, and graduation dates, with academic advisers copied on the message.

For any necessary adjustments, such as a course substitution or waiver, please process these approvals as soon as possible through Workday, or send your request to degreecompletion@carleton.edu. If you see anything incorrect in your advisee’s academic progress, please address it right away, as unreported substitutions, corrections, or overrides will not resolve themselves. You can find detailed instructions in the help article, Academic Requirement Override Descriptions and Details (for Major/Minor Coordinators). This will help ensure the accuracy of the students’ academic progress reports.

Progress Reports

Faculty members should submit progress reports to the Dean of Students Office for students who are not meeting class expectations. This could include any of the following: missed classes, missed assignments, lack of communication, disengagement in class, or wellness concerns.

The purpose of having the Dean of Students Office receive progress reports is three-fold: to confirm for students that they are in academic difficulty, to inform those in a position to assist and support students (Class Dean) of the nature of the concern, and to reveal patterns of behavior about students as they may not be meeting expectations in multiple classes.

To initiate this process, please use this progress report form. Your academic progress reports have proven helpful in assisting students with their academic success.

Carleton-Funded Fellowships Applications Winter Term Deadline

Please remind your advisees that applications are due on February 17 for the following Carleton-Funded Fellowships:

Chang-Lan
Class of 1963
David C. Donelson
Professor Roy Grow
Hanson Ethics
Independent Research
Paul and Lynn Kelley Fellowship
Larson International
Allen & Irene Salisbury
Richard Salisbury
Nancy Wilkie Fellowship for Archaeological Field Experience

Please share this information with your advisees and encourage them to visit this webpage for more information.

Office of Health Promotion Training and Resources

The Office of Health Promotion provides numerous opportunities such as Mental Health First Aid to support both your students’ mental health and your own. Sign up for a MHFA training for this Winter: The training is a day-long session, and will be held on Midterm Break Monday (Monday, February 9) from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For more info and registration, see the MFHA page.

Winter Term Advising Dates and Deadlines

Thursday, February 5: Last Day First Five Weeks
Friday, February 6: First Day Second Five Weeks
Friday, February 13: Second Five Week Course Drop/Add Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
Monday, February 16: Advising Days (through February 25)
Friday, February 20: Ten Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, February 24: Registration for Spring Term (through March 24)
Friday, February 27: Second Five Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
Saturday, March 14: Exams Begin (end on March 16)

Advising Quick Links

Grants and Fellowships

Character Education Grants Available Through Wake Forest

The Educating Character Initiative (ECI) at Wake Forest University will award grants to projects that aim to develop moral, civic, and intellectual character of faculty, staff, and students. They anticipate awarding Institutional Impact Grants ($100,000-$1,000,000) and Capacity-Building Grants ($0-$50,000) to provide institutions with the time, resources, and freedom to determine the character education that works best in their context. Pre-proposal deadlines begin in February. For more information, please contact the Grants Office.