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March 30, 2026

News

Update on Summer Housing for Student Research Partners

For many years summer Student Research Partners (SRPs) who were granted housing on campus were housed in one of the dormitories, typically Myers or Musser. In the hope of addressing some of the concerns that have been raised about this arrangement, this year the College is piloting a new arrangement, in which summer SRPs and other approved summer residents who are granted housing on campus will be housed in the townhomes near Musser. For more about how this relates to SRP start dates, please read on.

Read About How These Changes Relate to SRP Start Dates

Having the SRPs living in the townhomes will be an improvement in several important ways. For instance, they will be sharing kitchen facilities with much smaller groups, and their buildings will be fully air conditioned. However, it also comes with disadvantages: Notably, most of the rooms in the townhomes are currently occupied by seniors, who will be staying in their rooms through the end of the day on the Saturday of Commencement (June 13). This means our colleagues in Custodial Services will not have enough time to clean and prepare these rooms for their summer occupants before the traditional start of summer research, which this year is Monday, June 15. Instead, the rooms will not be ready until Wednesday, June 17.

If you plan to supervise SRPs this summer, and they plan to apply for on-campus housing, then you have a couple of options. One is that you can have your SRPs start their project on June 17. You can even start later, as long as your SRP’s summer work is complete by Wednesday, August 26, which is ten weeks after June 17. In this case, your SRPs would be eligible to apply for housing on campus at the standard rate of $14 per day, but they would need to find somewhere else to live between the end of finals and the start of their summer housing.

Alternatively, you can have your SRPs start their project after the last day of finals (June 9) but before June 17. If your SRP’s employment begins during this June 9-16 window, then they can apply to stay in their current campus housing assignment until June 17, and then move into their summer housing assignment. Please note that only students who have an on-campus housing assignment during spring term can be considered for this option. In particular, students who are participating in an OCS program in the spring are not eligible for this option. Please also note that the cost for the time between the end of finals and June 17 will be somewhat higher than the $14 per night rate, since a meal plan will be included for at least part of that time.

More information concerning summer break housing, including the break housing request form for supervisors and the application form for students to apply for housing, will be available early in spring term on this page.

Major Celebration on April 13

Faculty are encouraged to attend the Major Celebration in Great Hall on Monday, April 13 from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. This event, which is part of Maize and Blue Daize, is a time for curious first-years, newly declared sophomores, experienced majors, and supportive faculty to gather and commemorate a major’s journey — from exploration to declaration and beyond.

Advising

Sophomore Major Declaration

Welcome to spring term!

Your sophomore advisees will be declaring their major at the start of this term. Students are encouraged to review the help article in Workday for submitting their major declarations. (Please note that students cannot declare a double major using this process.)

Departments will work as quickly as they can to assign them major advisers. Please note, however, that there may be a period of one to two weeks when your advisees may still reach out to you for advice until they are officially assigned their new major adviser. If you are unavailable during the first few weeks of the term, please let your advisees know that they can reach out to Yansi Pérez to sign-off on petitions or to discuss specific concerns they might have.

Important Dates and Deadlines

Please make note of the important SPRING TERM 2026 Dates and Deadlines. Please be mindful of deadline times as well as dates and make sure that your advisees do the same.

Spring Term 2026 Dates and Deadlines

  • Monday, March 30: Classes begin 8:30 a.m.
  • Friday, April 3: Ten Week Independent Study and Overload Petition Deadline 5:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 5: First Five Week Course Drop/Add Deadline 11:59 p.m.
  • Sunday, April 5: Ten Week Course Drop/Add Deadline 11:59 p.m.
  • Friday, April 17: First Five Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline 5:00 p.m.
  • Thursday, April 30: Last Day First Five Weeks
  • Friday, May 1: First Day Second Five Weeks
  • Monday, May 4: Mid-Term Break
  • Tuesday, May 5: Classes Resume 8:15 a.m.
  • Friday, May 8: Second Five Week Course Drop/Add Deadline 5:00 p.m.
  • Friday, May 15: Ten Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline 5:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday, May 13 – Friday, May 22: Advising Days
  • Thursday, May 21: Priority Registration for Fall Term Begins
  • Friday, May 22: Second Five Week Course Late Drop Deadline and S/CR/NC Deadline 5:00 p.m.
  • Thursday, May 28: Priority Registration for Fall Term Ends
  • Wednesday, June 3: Last Day of Classes
  • Thursday June 4 – Friday June 5: Reading Days
  • Saturday, June 6 – Mon. June 8: Exams
  • Wednesday, June 10: Senior Grades Due 8:30 a.m.
  • Saturday, June 13: Commencement
  • Wednesday, June 17: Grades Due 8:30 a.m.

Advisee Academic Progress

If any of your advisees received a letter from the Academic Standing Committee (ASC) about any number of academic issues (a student is low on credits, a student had unexpected academic difficulty, a student who did not meet previous review requirements), please reach out to them to discuss strategies to address the issues that led to academic difficulties and help them create a plan to address them. If you have any advisees that might benefit from the Academic Support Center’s accountability groups, please encourage them to apply.

Students should submit applications by the end of Week 1. Once placed, students meet weekly with 3-5 other students plus a trained peer facilitator to work on their own projects/assignments in a shared space. Accountability groups create a consistent space and time for individual work, goal-setting, and reflection on work habits.

Important Reminders from the Registrar’s Office

As spring term begins, please review the following reminders from the Registrar’s Office:

Important Deadlines for Independent Studies, Reading, and Directed Research and Overloads

Registration deadlines for Independent Studies/Reading/Research (Courses numbered 290/390, 291/391, 292/392), Small Groups Studies (293/393), and Faculty-Directed Research (294/394) follow the academic calendar, regardless of the number of credits. Forms can be found on the Registrar’s Office website.

10-Week projects (1-6 credits) and First Five Weeks projects (1-3 credits) that begin on 03/30 must have forms approved (by faculty supervisor and adviser) by the Drop/Add deadline, which is 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, 04/05.

Second Five Weeks projects (1-3 credits) that begin on 05/01 must have forms approved (by faculty supervisor and adviser) by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 05/08.

Only courses explicitly designated as Second Five Weeks will be processed after the 10-Week Drop/Add deadline. The Registrar’s Office will no longer reclassify late full-term 1-3 credit projects as Second Five Weeks courses. Students who miss the deadline must petition the Academic Standing Committee for a late add.

Please keep in mind that the overload petition deadline for the Spring 2026 term is Friday, 04/03 at 5:00 p.m. If a student plans on overloading with a Second Five Weeks course (including independent study/directed research projects), they must petition by this date. If a student misses this deadline, they will need to submit a petition for exception to the Academic Standing Committee.

Exploring Different Rosters in Workday

Did you know that there are three different roster views in Workday? While all rosters show student enrollments, additional information is displayed on each roster in different ways:

  • The Carleton Photo Roster allows for a printable class roster that includes student profile pictures.
  • The Carleton Class Roster is a Carleton-designed roster that includes the features most commonly used and requested by faculty, such as preferred name, grading basis, advisers, class level, email, and pronouns.
  • The Course Section Roster is a Workday-delivered roster that can be used primarily for emailing students on your roster.

Waitlist Requests

Waitlist clearance requests should continue to be sent to waitlist@carleton.edu. Please ensure that requests are submitted by 12:00 p.m. (noon) on Friday, 04/03 to ensure adequate time for processing.

Waitlist requests will be accepted through the Drop/Add period. Any requests received after 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, 04/05 will require a petition for exception to the Academic Standing Committee.

Reminders About Course Overrides

If a student doesn’t meet a course’s minimum requirements, they should submit a Request Course Section Prerequisite Override task. Instructors will get a notification in Workday (via the bell icon in the upper right), and the request will appear in My Tasks for approval or denial. Advisers can help students navigate this process by directing them to the help article, linked below.

A few reminders:

  • Students are expected to speak with the instructor before submitting a request.
  • Approving a request does not enroll the student—they must register themselves.
  • Overrides can be granted even if the course is full; the student will be added to the waitlist (granting approval will not override the capacity for your course).
  • If no instructor is assigned, the student should contact the department for permission.
  • Denials are not communicated to the student by Workday, so instructors should follow-up with students to explain the denial.

Help articles are available for both students and faculty.

Drop/Add Deadline

The Drop/Add period for 10-Week and First Five Weeks courses begins on Monday, 03/30 and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, 04/05.

Advising Quick Links

Grants and Fellowships

Workshops

Registration and CFP for Day of Digital Humanities Conference: June 5

Carleton’s 10th Anniversary Day of Digital Humanities event will be held on June 5, 2026. Day of DH @ Carleton is a free, one-day conference sponsored by the Humanities Center, Gould Library, and Information Technology Systems at Carleton. The lunchtime Keynote address, “Living with the Pharmakon: On the Digital Humanities and the Liberal Arts” will be given by Dr. Mark Sample, professor and founding chair of the Film, Media, and Digital Studies department at Davidson College. We will be holding the event in person again this year, although some parts of the day will continue to be live-streamed for remote audiences.

Registration is now open for the conference. Community members at any institution or career stage are invited to submit a proposal, due May 04, for either a presentation on a digital project or a hands-on workshop:

  • Lightning round presentations (5 minutes) on digital projects followed by a digital demonstration Q&A session
  • Hands-on workshops (90 minutes) devoted to specific aspects of DH pedagogy and practice

You can read more about the event online. Feel free to send any questions to dayofdh.group@carleton.edu. 

Mastering the Trade Book Workshop

The Humanities Center and the STEM Board would like to announce a Three-Day Workshop on Campus June 8 – 11 called “Mastering the Trade Book.” Many of you attended a part-day workshop last year with John Ghazvinian, founder of Scholars to Storytellers, whose book America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present was chosen by The New York Times as a notable book of 2021. This year Carleton is hosting him for a full retreat. For anyone interested, he will run a 45-minute information session on Thursday (April 2) during common time. Watch for more information, including a link to sign up for the workshop, via email tomorrow or later today. The workshop and the info session are both open to anyone, not just Carleton faculty, so feel free to forward to colleagues elsewhere.

An intensive series of workshops, including sessions with publishers and literary agents, this retreat is designed for established faculty in all disciplines who are interested in publishing book-length projects for audiences beyond the academy, and who already have a concept that they expect to pursue in the next year.  Similar retreats have recently been held at Vassar and UC Santa Cruz. Registration is already open and there is an early-bird discount.

The cost of the “Mastering the Trade Book” retreat, without accommodations (called the “commuter” option on the registration site) is $2,397 at the discounted rate. The Provost’s Office has generously agreed to provide $1,500 towards this cost for up to ten Carleton faculty members who would like to participate in the workshop. The additional costs ($897 at the early registration rate) can be covered with Faculty Development Account (FDA) funds.

To apply for funding from the Provost’s Office, please email Eric Egge a 1-page description of your project, including an outline of what is written and what remains to be written, along with a narrative of at most one page explaining how you see this retreat pushing your project forward.  Applications will be accepted in the order in which they are received, as long as funding remains.

Please contact either Baird Jarman (Humanities Center) or Matt Whited (STEM Board) with any questions.