Carleton College

Carleton College

Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The college currently enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. Steven G. Poskanzer is the current President. In 2010 U.S. News and World Report ranked Carleton College the 8th best liberal arts college in the United States and in 2011 US News ranked Carleton number one for undergraduate teaching at a national liberal arts college.

The Carleton College was founded on May 3, 1866, by the Minnesota Conference of Congregational Churches as Northfield College. Two local businessmen, Charles Augustus Wheaton and Charles M. Goodsell, each donated 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land for the first campus. The first students enrolled in fall 1867. In 1870, the first college president, James Strong, traveled to the East Coast to raise funds for the college. On his way from visiting William Carleton of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Strong was badly injured by a train. Impressed by Strong’s survival, Carleton donated US$50,000 to the fledgling institution in 1871, and the Board of Trustees renamed the school in his honor.
The college graduated its first class in 1874. The first two graduates, James J. Dow and Myra A. Brown, married each other later that year.

Carleton College Rankings in 2010

• TOP 100 PRIVATE COLLEGES RANKING
• WORLD’S BEST UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
• TOP 100 LIBERAL ART UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE IN 2010
• BEST UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PROGRAM RANKING IN U.S.

• FORBES AMERICAN’S BEST COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
• TOP LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE RANKING IN 2011

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Carleton College News

• Carleton College to Host Public Panel Discussion on the Ethics of Healthcare Access - Thu, 17 May 2012
  

  On Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m., Carleton College will host a public panel discussion on the ethics of healthcare access in America.� Entitled “Healthcare as a Human Right: Access & Barriers,” this event will take place in the College’s Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236, and is free and open to the public.

• Carleton College’s Chinese Music Ensemble to Perform - Thu, 17 May 2012
  

  The acclaimed Carleton College Chinese Music Ensemble will perform in concert Sunday, May 20 at 3 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The performance will feature Chinese classical, folk, silk and bamboo, percussion and minority music. This year’s spring concert will also feature traditional Temple music. This event is free and open to the public.

• Carleton’s Graduating Art Majors Showcase Their Work in Year-End Exhibit - Thu, 17 May 2012
  

  Carleton College’s senior studio art majors will present their culminating works in the College’s Senior Art Show opening Friday, May 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Perlman Teaching Museum at the Weitz Center for Creativity. The art show—entitled “Untitled (for reasons)”—opens with a special reception with the students, who will be on-hand to discuss their work. Admittance to the reception and to the Perlman Teaching Museum is free and open to the public.

• Carleton Vocalists Showcased in College Choir Performance - Thu, 17 May 2012
  

  Carleton College vocalists will have an opportunity to shine in a concert Friday, May 18 at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. The concert, entitled “Let’s Dance!,” will showcase an eclectic range of music about dance, featuring the Carleton Choir (both the Men’s Chorus and Bella Cantemus) and the Carleton Singers. Lawrence Burnett, a professor of music and choral director at Carleton, will conduct. This event is free and open to the public.

• Carleton Hosts Philosopher Kendall Walton for a Discussion of Poetry and Music - Mon, 14 May 2012
  

  Visiting professor and esteemed philosopher Kendall Walton will present “Thoughtwriting – in Poetry and Music” on Tuesday, May 15 at 12 p.m. in Leighton Hall Room 305 on the Carleton College campus. This presentation is free and open to the public.

• Carleton Sephardic Symposium Features Presentation on Sephardic Prayer and Song - Mon, 14 May 2012
  

  In conjunction with Carleton College’s symposium on Sephardic cultures (the culture of the Jews of Spain who, following their expulsion from the kingdom in 1492, fled to Turkey and Morocco), Isaac Azose, the cantor at Congregation Ezra Bessaroth in Seattle and an expert on Sephardic prayer and song, will give a lecture and demonstration at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15 in the Gould Library Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public.

• Carleton Hosts Symposium on Sephardic Cultures and Legacies - Fri, 11 May 2012
  

  Carleton College will present a symposium on Sephardic culture—the culture of the Jews of Spain who, following their expulsion from the kingdom in 1492, fled to Turkey and Morocco—from Monday, May 14 through Wednesday, May 16 in the Gould Library Athenaeum. The symposium will feature a variety of lectures, panels discussions, and demonstrations by scholars from Carleton and around the world. The symposium opens on Monday, May 14 at 4:30 p.m. with a lecture entitled “Sepharad: Jewish History in Spain,” presented by Carleton professor Stacy Beckwith. All events related to this symposium are free and open to the public.

• From Inspiration to Illumination: An Introduction to ‘The Saint John’s Bible’ Comes to Northfield - Thu, 10 May 2012
  

  Tim Ternes, Executive Director of The Saint John’s Bible Project at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, will present “From Inspiration to Illumination: An Introduction to The Saint John’s Bible” on Monday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Weitz Center for Creativity Cinema. This is a wonderful and rare opportunity to learn more about the conception, processes, tools, methods and materials used to make The Saint John’s Bible. Following the presentation, guests will have the opportunity to handle vellum and writing quills and to see full-size, beautifully-bound fine art reproductions of some of the pages of The Saint John’s Bible. This event is free and open to the public.

• Esteemed Hindi Writer and Film-Maker, Uday Prakash, in Residency at Carleton College - Thu, 10 May 2012
  

  Renowned writer Uday Prakash, considered one of contemporary Hindi’s most important voices, is visiting Carleton College for the month of May as the Lindesmith Distinguished Lecturer and Writer in Residence. During his residency, Prakash will present a number of public lectures and film screenings; these events are free and open to the public.

• Carleton Purchases 200 Division St. Building in Downtown Northfield - Wed, 09 May 2012
  

  Carleton College has announced the purchase of the building at 200 Division Street, formerly known as the Medical Arts Building, in Northfield. The College has been a major tenant in the building since 2005 when the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) relocated there. The acquisition will allow Carleton to use a portion of the building to expand much-needed space for SERC operations, as well as move some additional administrative functions out of core academic buildings on campus.