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Carleton has begun a strategic planning process that provides an opportunity for the community to reflect on the educational experience of today and imagine the educational experience of tomorrow.

This issue of the Voice includes a story about Carleton’s participation in an amicus brief supporting the position of Harvard and the University of North Carolina in an affirmative action…

It has been great to get to know Carleton alumni in a variety of venues over the course of the year, and to find, not surprisingly, that they are a…

By the time you read this issue of the Voice, Carleton will be well into winter term. And I hope by then I will have finally trained myself to refer…

I arrived in Northfield at the beginning of August, along with my husband, Steve, our three zebra finches, and so many boxes of books that the movers kept asking hopefully,…

Alison R. Byerly, Carleton College’s 12th president, will take office on August 1, 2021, succeeding Steve Poskanzer, who has led the College since 2010.

As you likely know, my time as Carleton’s president will conclude at the end of July. One of the true privileges of serving in this post over the past 11…

Great teaching is foundational to Carleton. If we are to provide a truly superb, world-class liberal arts education, it must start with exceptional faculty members who are dedicated to their…

This is not the column I envisioned writing when planning for this issue of the Voice began. Events have a tendency to overtake our feeble plans, though, teaching us what is truly important and what demands our personal attention and institutional action.

“We’ll persist in overcoming the obstacles with determination, resilience, and grace, because Carleton is much more than a collection of buildings centered around the Bald Spot.”