Illustration of a woman walking through a forest with a flashlight. The light beam winds through the trees in a wandering, impossible way.
Logo: Carleton College Voice, Fall 2024
Illustration of a woman walking through a forest with a flashlight. The light beam winds through the trees in a wandering, impossible way.
Logo: Carleton College Voice, Fall 2024
Illustration of a person rowing a kayak up the spine of a giant book

Against the Odds

Navigating the culture and expectations of an elite college can be challenging for low-income and first-generation students, but Carleton’s TRIO program is helping them find their way.

Jack El-Hai

The Man with the Golden Pen

Author Jack El-Hai ’79 turns little-known history into gripping books that have recently been adapted into a podcast, a play, and a major upcoming film.

Collage of lips, an ear, a hand, a megaphone, and a cup of tea

Voices Heard

As new Title IX changes are being implemented, students, alumni, and staff remain central in helping shape Carleton’s approach to campus safety and sexual misconduct.

Roger Faust holds a wolf skull while sitting for a formal portrait

Back to the Land

At the start of the fall term, the College welcomed Roger Faust ’19, Carleton’s second Indigenous faculty member, to the Environmental Studies department.

The Hill of Three Oaks with reunion revelers on a summer evening

A Reunion to Remember

More than 2,000 alumni, faculty members, and friends were back on campus in June to celebrate and reconnect with fellow classmates, mentors, faculty, and staff.

Painting of a great white shark from a vintage movie poster

Sharkmania!

Janet Davis ’86 has traveled the world researching how shark-human “entanglements” over the centuries continue to shape perceptions of these maligned creatures today.

Headshots of four Carleton students

Common Time

As the newest Carls settle into their first term of college, we rewind to last spring, when we caught up with graduating students to ask what they will miss after leaving Carleton.

Bald Spot: News from Around & Beyond Campus

A lion on an African savannah

Picturing “Paradise”
For the 38th OCS Photo Contest, faculty and staff judges winnowed 280 entries to the top images by 26 student travelers.

Susannah Ottaway and Dev Gupta

Presidential Transition
Professor Dev Gupta discusses the complexities of the job of faculty president as professor Susannah Ottaway ’89, P ’19 assumes the role.

Laura Hartpence

Icebreaker with Laura Hartpence
Get to know Laura Hartpence, Carleton’s new director of the Career Center.

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Class Notes

Matthew Wilkinson '21 runs the steeplechase at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Fall ’24 Class Notes
See the latest news from your classmates.