Mother, scientist, decorated professor, Citizen Potawatomi Nation member, and award-winning author Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ph.D. will deliver the keynote address during an online graduation ceremony for the College of the Atlantic Class of 2020.
College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins ’92 joins U.S. Senator Angus King, I-Maine, on his monthly podcast to discuss climate change and student action. Senators Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Chris Coons, D-Delaware, also weigh in on the topic.
The College of the Atlantic community kicks off fall term in traditional fashion as nearly 140 students, staff, faculty, and alumni jump into the chilly, 54-degree waters of Frenchman Bay for the annual Bar Island Swim.
The way we approach our food systems and our daily meals should be considered a vital part of the undergraduate curriculum, writes College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins ’92. “Unlimited access to comfort foods might be enticing, but I find it misguided. We should be inspiring prospective students with how food is grown, prepared and consumed,” he says.
First-year college students should be more concerned with finding themselves than finding a major, according to College of the Atlantic President Dr. Darron Collins ’92.
A stint in the Russian Far East working to save endangered Siberian tigers and leopards from extinction shows College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins ’92 that biological information and census figures can only go so far without cross-cultural understanding.
College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins ’92 calls for radical empathy, self-awareness, and respect as he officially opens the 2017-2018 school year. “We begin with the notion that we are all in this together,” he says, “champions of collaborative, institutional success.”
College of the Atlantic joins over 1,000 business leaders, governors, mayors, and colleges and universities from across the country to ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in reducing carbon emissions.
Despite President Trump’s dangerous abandonment of the Paris climate accord, COA President Darron Collins ’92 says, the fight for climate justice must go on.
Colleges and universities that enable students to gain the skills that come from engaging in dialogue with faculty and peers, in asking complex, nuanced questions, and in respectfully challenging authority are exciting, formative places that are helping us shape the kind of critical thinkers we’ll need in the years ahead, says COA president Darron Collins ’92.
As an executive order banning U.S. entry from seven predominantly Muslim nations causes fear and chaos around the country, COA President Darron Collins ’92 issues a letter to the COA community reiterating the college’s commitment to providing “an open, inclusive, educational experience regardless of national identity and immigration status.”
“Now, more than ever, we need a diverse group of doers and thinkers, and now, more than ever, this college is ready to stand by its commitments to support, challenge, and advocate for our students” - College of the Atlantic president Darron Collins ’92.
The role that openness plays in the learning process and the unique educational philosophy embraced at College of the Atlantic are touched on by COA President Darron Collins ’92 as part of a holiday-themed Maine Public Radio series, “Voices of Giving.”
COA faculty and staff were noted among the most influential people in Maine, voted volunteers of the year, celebrated as authors of new books, and sought after as thought leaders in the world of human ecology and politics in 2016.
From a charming musical performance to a riveting speech delivered by one of the world’s foremost environmental humanitarians, the 2016 commencement ceremony at College of the Atlantic was full of memorable moments.
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.
An arduous journey across the Mount Desert Island landscape spells out the beginning of the academic year for College of the Atlantic president Darron Collins ’92 and COA trustee Winston Holt.
The first annual #RelayForCOA is a 44-point trek to inspire 44 percent of alumni to make a gift to the college. Join president Darron Collins ’92 and others for a leg or more as a hiker, bicyclist, or volunteer.
The Chronicle of Higher Education explores how an institution of 350 students can have an impact on innovation in higher education, in a video chat with COA President Darron Collins ’92.
When Hiromi Nagao, former president of a women’s college in Hiroshima, met College of the Atlantic Professor Jay Friedlander and President Darron Collins at an education conference in 2014, she had no idea how much her home island and Mount Desert Island had in common.
President Darron Collins ’92 travels to Hiroshima Prefecture to discuss the COA approach and brainstorm with officials on how a school like COA might thrive on the Japanese coast.
President Darron Collins ’92 speaks at The Explorers Club on a decade’s worth of exploration, fly-fishing and conservation in Mongolia’s Onon River watershed, birthplace of Genghis Khan. This event is also streaming live!
College of the Atlantic President Darron Collins is named one of the “50 Bold Visionaries Defining our State” in the July 2015 issue of Maine magazine.