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  Carleton College - Arts Colleges - Top US Colleges
Carleton College is an independent liberal arts college; ranked fifth upon the top liberal arts colleges in the United States by the US news and world report.
The Carleton College campus stretches over 1040 acres, which includes an 880-acre arboretum, which is a variety of plants and shrubs grown for their ecological study.
In addition the college boasts with a science complex that comprises a Center for Mathematics and Computing, which was completed in 1993, a biology building; completed in 1995, and buildings for physics and psychology; which were refurbished in 1996 and chemistry and geology buildings, remodeled in 1997.
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  Carleton College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carleton's Goodsell Observatory, built in 1887, is on the national registry of historic places.
The Carleton College Cowling Arboretum, created from lands purchased in the 1920s during difficult financial times by then president Donald J. Cowling, was first called "Cowling's Folly" and, later, his legacy.
The mother grove of the RDNA or Reformed Druids of North America was founded at Carleton in 1963, initially as an effort to be excused from attending the then-required daily chapel service, and later as legitimate spiritual exploration.
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 Carleton College - MN Jobs
Carleton is a national college enrolling approximately 1,800 students drawn from 49 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 30 foreign countries.
Carleton College aspires to provide a liberal arts education that equips students with the skills to lead a fully realized life in a diverse and changing world.
A Carleton education recognizes that the world’s people differ in their race and ethnicity, culture, political and social worldviews, religious and spiritual understandings, language and geographic characteristics, gender, gender identities and sexual orientations, learning and physical abilities, age, and social and economic classes.
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 Carleton College Admission: Vault Carleton College Student Surveys
Carleton has quality education- the professors are the most dedicated and caring in the country.
Carleton is not well known outside of the higher education world, but you can flash its top ten US News and World Report rating if you like.
Carleton's career center is well-staffed and open for students to come in and talk to career counselors.
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 AAC&U News | December 2004 | Feature
Carleton College, a private, liberal arts institution in Northfield, Minnesota, is one of a growing number of schools developing new strategies to improve and assess students' writing skills.
Carleton has long emphasized "writing across the curriculum"—distributing writing instruction in many classes and throughout the disciplines—and in 2001, the college introduced sophomore writing portfolios to broaden its assessment of student writing.
By the time Carleton decided to abandon the old model, she says, there was a broad consensus among students and faculty that assessments based on writing from a single class were inadequate.
www.aacu.org /aacu_news/AACUNews04/December04/feature.cfm   (1257 words)

  
 Fast Facts
Carleton College is a private, residential liberal arts college with a national student body and with no formal religious affiliation.
Carleton College strives to provide a liberal education of the highest quality.
This was the 3rd consecutive year Carleton ranked in the top five liberal arts colleges and the 8th consecutive year in the top ten.
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 College Profiles - The Catholic University of America
The Carleton education aims to nurture a sense of curiosity and intellectual adventure, an awareness of method and purpose in a variety of fields, and an affinity for quality and integrity wherever they may be found.
The Carleton campus consists of more than 900 acres of land, about 450 of which are the Cowling Arboretum, a game and nature preserve used regularly as an outdoor laboratory for biology, chemistry, and geology as well as a recreational area.
Carleton meets the full demonstrated financial need of every student admitted to the College and continues meeting each student's need for four years or until graduation.
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 Carleton College - SchoolFinder
Carleton College is an independent and highly selective liberal arts college with a diverse and exceptionally able student body, a talented faculty whose first priority is teaching, and a continued commitment to the liberal arts.
Carleton is a national college enrolling approximately 1,800 students drawn from all 50 states and several other countries.
Nine co-educational residence halls are at the centre of the Carleton living experience, with students of all years living in most halls.
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 Top US Colleges - College Rankings
A compiled list of Universities and colleges with their unique features and facilities would be of great assistance while making a right decision that determines the career prospects of a person.
Whether it is a University or a college, public or private, located in urban or rural setting, further understanding on the programs offered and facilities that each provide has to be considered.
A wise decision is vital since the years spent in the college is the time you mature, you satiate your curiosities, you learn the keys of social networking and improve yourself and grow to a complete personality.
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 Carleton College: Vantage Points
To its students and alumni, Carleton College is an intense and nurturing environment that fosters academic freedom, intellectual curiosity, and social connectedness.
The College occupies the eastern side of Northfield, a small town in southeastern Minnesota that straddles the Cannon River and is surrounded by farmland.
They were commissioned to document and interpret the campus during the fall of 2001 and were expected to respond subjectively to the sights and spaces of Carleton in the hope that their highly personal viewpoints might parallel the passionately held visions of insiders.
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 More About Carleton College and Paul Thiboutot
Founded in 1866, Carleton College is an independent and highly selective liberal arts college with a diverse and exceptionally able student body, a talented faculty whose first priority is teaching, and a continued commitment to the liberal arts.
Paul Thiboutot is the Dean of Admissions at Carleton College in Northfield, MN.
Perhaps his greatest asset is having two daughters who navigated the college selection/admission process successfully, despite his sometime wrong notion of what to expect in terms of thin or fat envelopes from colleges.
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 Carleton College: Commencement 2000
Carleton will present honorary degrees to two distinguished persons: George H. Dixon, retired CEO and chairman of US Bancorp and trustee emeritus of Carleton, will receive an honorary doctorate of laws; and Bruno Nettl, a renowned ethnomusicologist and former visiting faculty at Carleton, will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters.
"It is a tribute to Carleton and the state of Minnesota that President Clinton has accepted our invitation to address our graduates at one of the most celebratory occasions in their young lives," he said.
Consistently ranked among the nation's top liberal arts institutions, Carleton is a private, co-educational college of 1,850 students located 40 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
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 Carleton College - College Guide Written For Students By Students
Let College Prowler give you the inside scoop on Carleton College's traditions before you go...you don't want to misinterpret something and end up with an awkward situation on your hands.
Given Carleton’s high retention rate, it’s pretty evident that Carls are satisfied with their school.
Read our Carleton College insider’s guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
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 Minnesota's Private Colleges - Carleton College
Carleton College is a coeducational, residential college noted for bright and talented students and a strong faculty committed to teaching.
Carleton sponsors a wide range of international and domestic off-campus seminars in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Latin America and the U.S. Carleton co-sponsors with other select colleges the Associated Kyoto Program in Japan and the Inter-Collegiate Sri Lanka Education (ISLE) Program.
Additional programs are available through Carleton's membership in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) in the U.S., the Czech Republic, Japan, Italy, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, and India, and membership in the HECUA consortium with programs in the U.S., Guatemala, Ecuador, Norway, Northern Ireland, and Bangladesh.
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 Carleton College | Campus Explorer
Carleton College strives to provide a liberal education of the highest quality.
The College is a leading source of PhD recipients, and is also recognized for sending an unusually large number of female students to graduate programs in the sciences.
Carleton leads all baccalaureate colleges in the number of its students awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowships for graduate study from 1990-99.
www.campusexplorer.com /colleges/311BAB58/Minnesota/Northfield/Carleton-College   (577 words)

  
 Carleton College - College Closeup
About 20 percent are students who are members of minority groups, and 10 percent are the first generation of their families to attend college.
Carleton normally receives about 4,900 applications for the approximately 500 places available in the first-year class.
Students who decide that Carleton is their first-choice college are encouraged to apply for early decision by November 15, first round, or by January 15, second round.
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 Carleton College
Carleton College, a small liberal arts institution in Northfield, Minnesota, played an integral role in my career, helping me mature both as an athlete and as an individual.
Carleton had not won team titles in those sports for years, but after my graduation, the college dominated the conference for several decades.
From contacts we had later, I know it was a great source of pride to Dr. Henry that one of his students had gone on to be published in national magazines and to write best-selling books.
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 Carleton College: Varsity Athletics
Carleton alum Philip Dunn ’93 will be competing in the 50 km Race Walk at the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing, China, which take place from August 8-24, 2008.
Carleton College will honor Mel Taube, who served the Knights’ athletic department from 1950-70 as a multi-sport coach and latter adding men’s athletics administration duties, by the naming of the Mel Taube Baseball Field.
Several members of the Carleton class of 1958 are on campus this weekend to celebrate their 50th reunion.
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 Carleton Athletics » Baseball
Carleton rallied with a three-run sixth inning, but host Gustavus answered with four runs in the bottom of the frame to beat the Knights, 9-5.
Carleton's doubleheader with Northwestern College that was scheduled for Monday, May 8 has been cancelled.
Carleton's MIAC doubleheader with Concordia, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 29 and then postponed to Monday, May 1, has been moved once more to Tuesday, May 2 at 2:30 p.m.
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 FastWeb: Carleton College
About 22 percent are students of color, and 10 percent are the first generation of their families to attend college.
In 200304, about 80percent of Carleton students received a total of more than $21million in financial aid or scholarships from all sources.
Carleton normally receives about 5,000 applications for the approximately 500 places available in the first-year class.
www.fastweb.com /fastweb/colleges/view_carleton_college_5559   (1784 words)

  
 Carleton College - College Guide Written For Students By Students
Tell It Like It Is Let College Prowler give you the inside scoop on Carleton College's traditions before you go...you don't want to misinterpret something and end up with an awkward situation on your hands.
Given Carleton’s high retention rate, it’s pretty evident that Carls are satisfied with their school.
Read our Carleton College insider’s guide and discover what it feels like to be on campus for 4 years.
campuslife.collegeprowler.com /guide.asp/1427400350/index.html   (574 words)

  
 Algonquin College & Carleton University Attendant Services Program
Carleton was the first university to offer attendant services on campus, Algonquin was the first college.
You do not have to be a Carleton student to live on campus between May and August, so some students may choose to live and receive attendant services at Carleton.
Carleton is the most accessible campus in Canada.
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 Discipline Focused Support at Carleton College: Let the Pedagogy Find the Tool
Carleton brings in a number of visiting faculty both as instructors and as speakers.
Carleton’s ratio of about 50 faculty to each Academic Computing Coordinator insures that the Coordinators can attend to the needs of faculty in each of the divisions.
The entire process of academic computing at Carleton is a team effort where the central mission revolves around the pedagogical motivations of the faculty.
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 Carleton College vs Bethel College (10-26-02)
Carleton College vs Bethel College (10-26-02 at Arden Hills, Minn.) SACKS (UA-A): Carleton College-None.
Carleton College: 1-Wanka, 2-Svestka, 6-Juelich, 10-Bond, 23-Nesbitt, 26-Hirai, 36-Kiner, 44-Hanley, 51-Wild, 63-Ghere.
C 4-6 C32 Muellerleile punt 32 yards to the BC36, fair catch by John Kilde, PENALTY CARLETON holding declined, PENALTY CARLETON illegal block 11 yards to the BC47, 1st and 10, BC ball on BC47.
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 Carleton College Class of '81
The subscriber list includes Carleton alumni from at least as far back as the class of 1958 all the way up to the most recent graduating classes.
I know I had entirely different feelings about attending the first couple of reunions than I do now, when many of the college memories that I wanted to forget were still fresh, or there was still the memory of certain cliques or fears of fitting in.
I added a link to Planet Carleton which I just found out about as I was perusing the Class of '91's blog, which I credit for giving me the idea to create this blog.
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 Carleton snapshot v1
Located in Northfield, MN, roughly 40 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Carleton offers access to the cultural advantages of a major metropolitan area while preserving a collegial environment conducive to an intensive academic life.
At Carleton College it is our hope to implement a plan to discover and articulate how faculty are teaching transferable, cross-cutting skills and literacies.
Carleton continues to work toward surfacing what we call cross-cutting literacies in our curriculum.
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 Carleton College vs Tommies
Carleton College vs Tommies (Final) 2004 Univ. of St. Thomas Football Carleton College vs Tommies (Oct 23, 2004 at St. Paul-UST)
Carleton College vs Tommies (Oct 23, 2004 at St. Paul-UST) SACKS (UA-A): Carleton College-Ben Olson 2-0; Pat Frett 1-0.
C 3-6 C44 Timeout Carleton College, clock 00:59.
www.stthomas.edu /tommies/FTBL/stats/fb-10-23.htm   (3416 words)

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