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  Isolating at a farm, these College of the Atlantic students don’t need to keep social distance [Maine Public]

  Most colleges in Maine have resumed in-person classes this fall, but with all kinds of new precautions: masks, travel restrictions, socially distanced classes and “no-party” policies among them. Yet a small group of professors and students at Bar Harbor’s College of the Atlantic has been able to avoid those restrictions, and are meeting in person with no social distancing required.

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  Building a co-op economy in Maine – and perhaps in your state too [Nonprofit Quarterly]

  The hope, self-reliance, and interdependence co-ops create could offer solutions to some of Maine’s economic challenges, according to College of the Atlantic Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences Dr. Davis Taylor and the Director of the Cooperative Business Institute’s Business Ownership Solutions Program Rob Brown.

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  Maine colleges wrestle with how to reopen in the fall as coronavirus ravages budgets [Maine Public]

  The spread of COVID-19 forced colleges across the country to close their campuses this spring. Now, many, including College of the Atlantic, are looking at whether to open back up this fall or consider alternative strategies, and their choices could have a major financial impact.

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  New “mountain” makes perfect classroom [Mount Desert Islander]

  Mount Desert Island’s volcanic history may well be in the past, but a new mountain just popped up last summer on the COA campus. The accidental result of building construction, the “mountain” quickly became a favorite spot on campus, both as a classroom and recreation area.