Darron Collins ’92 joins the leaders of over 400 colleges and universities from across the country in signing an open letter urging the preservation of the DACA program, which protects undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children.
Representatives of College of the Atlantic and numerous other international climate change groups gather with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York to mark the entry-into-force of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.
Among representatives of hundreds of countries from around the world gathering in Marrakech, Morocco at the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are 10 College of the Atlantic students and their professor as part of the school’s annual delegation.
An expedition to unexplored ocean depths by a team of scientists, including Conservation International Executive Vice President Greg Stone ’82, aims to produce valuable information regarding deep-sea ecology.
Sierra, the national magazine of the Sierra Club, names College of the Atlantic the greenest college in the country in its 10th annual “Cool Schools” ranking. The school jumps 15 spots from last year’s ranking of 16 to occupy the #1 slot “by a landslide.”
A group of Japanese educators and political officials who are planning a new Japanese college based on College of the Atlantic’s interdisciplinary, experiential model will visit COA and Mount Desert Island for three days this month.
A total of 100 new students, hailing from 18 countries and 22 states, will be welcomed to the COA community during the annual convocation ceremony. Scores of students, staff, faculty and alumni will swim from the Bar Island sandbar to the COA pier in the morning, continuing a much-loved, yearly tradition.
A new initiative aims to bring economic, social, and environmental sustainability to communities across Maine.