Posts tagged with “Features” (All posts)
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Four Carls currently serve at the helm of a liberal arts college or university. Here’s what they had to say about the enduring value of intellectual rigor, the need for fearless dialogue, and the future of academe.
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Department chairs and faculty members are assessing the barriers to full participation in the educational process that students may encounter if they’re people of color, first-generation, gender nonconforming, or otherwise outside long-dominant paradigms in higher education.
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Over the past two years, students’ lives have been upended by the pandemic. In search of an equally tumultuous time, one senior sought out stories from Carls who attended college during World War II.
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Vigils connect the Carleton community to tragedies in the wider world, and acknowledge the stresses that students weather when family and home are so far away.
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Artist Doreen Lynette Garner’s work, showcased by the Perlman Teaching Museum, compels viewers to confront the unthinkable atrocities of medical apartheid.
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Thriller writer Bryan Freeman ’84 and his “best” editor, spouse Marcia Freeman ’82, are riding a wave of writing success.
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For centuries, charismatic leaders have convinced previously rational people to do terrible things. From Hitler to religious cult leaders, Joel Dimsdale ’68 digs into the phenomenon of brainwashing.
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Indigenous students — in collaboration with select faculty members, staff representatives, and leaders of the Prairie Island Indian Community — are working to help the college address their collective strengths, traditions, and needs.
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Carleton Professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder are challenging seemingly progressive academic orthodoxies—from the left.
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Carleton’s new geothermal energy system is a multitasking wonder, heating and cooling campus, cutting carbon emissions, and serving as a living laboratory.