Around campus:
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Making the best of fall term
Venturing out with close friends, spending time on the water and in nature, and scheduling screen-free hours helps Adele Wise ’21 make her way through life at College of the Atlantic during the time of COVID-19. -
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Term closes with no COVID-19 cases
As College of the Atlantic’s fall trimester comes to an end, school officials report that over the course of the term, there have been a total of zero active cases of the novel coronavirus on campus. -
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River Gull returns home
A 400-mile journey, fog-bound nights, navigational surprises, and long days on the water provide the backdrop for bonding and self discovery for a crew of students and alumnx tasked with bringing a donated sailboat from New York to Bar Harbor. -
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Ed studies teaching fellow announced
College of the Atlantic is pleased to welcome Ming-Tso Chien as the 2020-21 Predoctoral Visiting Teaching Fellow in Educational Studies. Working to dismantle structural barriers of equity, inclusion, and social justice, Chien provides students with a platform to explore education and tell stories across cultures.
COA in the news:
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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.