The mission of the Student Life department is to empower students to become authentic and successful learners. We challenge and guide students to deepen and expand their learning at the college by offering opportunities and creating spaces for transformational learning. These activities form the Four Pillars of Student Life: Student Support, Student Engagement, Student Leadership and Student Development.
As Student Life staff, we endeavor to engage students with compassion, empathy, humor and integrity. Recognizing that learning is an ongoing process that occurs within the active context of students’ lives, we strive to facilitate a community that balances the paradoxical tensions necessary for a thriving learning environment.
COA Life
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COA’s pier at twilight.
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Students give presentations in a sustainable business class.
Jason P. Smith
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Students outside the Gates Center in spring
Jason P. Smith
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Turrets and Frenchman Bay in winter, from the air
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Students prepare for a critique in 2D Design.
Rose Dawson
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Faculty Nishi Rajakaruna looks at bog flora with Bio 2 students.
Rose Dawson
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Students rehearse for a performance of the play “Telephone.”
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Pressing seaweed specimens in the lab.
Rose Dawson
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Students at work in the drafting studio.
Jason P. Smith
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Students in the Herpetology class with a frog.
Michelle Doucette
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Class in the library seminar room.
Jason P. Smith
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COA pier at sunrise
Rose Dawson
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Geology class in Acadia.
Jason P. Smith
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Students participate in a clam flat survey in Frenchman Bay.
Megan McCosker
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Jason P. Smith
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Bright winter skies over the Turrets.
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Winter storm – view of Bar Island from campus.
Laura Montenari
