Carleton has adopted a mandatory Satisfactory/Credit/No Credit (S/Cr/NC) grading policy for Spring Term 2020 due to the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new policy was announced to students,...
On March 12, 2020, President Steven Poskanzer announced that Carleton would be moving to remote instruction for the first half of Spring term, with the intention of reconvening on May 5 if the state of...
Next Wednesday from 5-6p.m. and Friday from 6-7p.m., over 60 students will be dancing simultaneously to the song “Boss B*tch” over Zoom. Some students may be accompanied by siblings, others...
By the first day of spring-term classes on April 6, most of Carleton’s dining hall and bookstore staff members had been placed on unpaid leave until further notice. While Carleton has assured all employees...
This is not yet another coronavirus thinkpiece. I promise.
Well, it is, and it isn’t.
The Carletonian’s Editor-in-Chief, Katy Gilbertson ’20, reached out to me about writing a political article...
Despite being a town of only 20,000 people, Northfield boasts a remarkable variety of locally-owned restaurants, cafés, and other eateries. And in the midst of this pandemic, it is exactly these businesses...
News fills our house 24/7. I’m almost not exaggerating. In the daytime downtime, approx. 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., my dad, working from home, will play NPR on the radio and, around our characteristically...
Several Carleton students have created a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of $100,000 to be distributed to first generation, low-income (FGLI) students who are disproportionately affected by Carleton’s...
The COVID-19 pandemic has made business anything but usual at Carleton.
Offices throughout the college are reshuffling their priorities as a nearly empty campus and volatile stock market pose new...
How do you host campus tours, overnight visits, and Accepted Students Days when no one is allowed to visit campus? This is the challenge currently facing the Admissions Office, which has been uniquely...
A week ago my great-grandmother Norma died. She was 102. It was sad but ultimately merciful. She hadn’t really been all there for the last couple years, and she lived alone in a retirement home in...
This spring, Carleton will hold some 300 classes online. Over 230 faculty members will be trained to transition their material to new platforms. As of yesterday, 1940 students are enrolled to take...
