The College at a glance C Board of Trustees C Academic Facilities C Overview T Alumni Achievements Human Ecology Grant Support T Academic Program O Enrollment C Faculty T College of the Atlantic Overview Alumni Achievements COA is a private, liberal arts college offering a One third go on to graduate programs at unique, interdisciplinary program in Human universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Ecology to a select group of highly motivated the University of California at Berkeley, where students. they earn degrees in fields as diverse as law, COA is the only college in the country which divinity, botany, and computer science. grants as its sole degree a B.A. in Human Others move directly into the professional Ecology. realm, forging careers in education, journalism, COA's mission is to prepare students to solve business, public administration, and complex environmental and social problems in conservation. the face of rapid world change. Every year since 1982, a COA senior has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to Human Ecology support a full year of travel and study abroad. COA's academic program encourages students to view the world as an interacting whole by Grant Support bringing traditional disciplines together Examples of recent special project grants received through a unifying perspective - Human from private foundations and the federal Ecology. government: Human Ecology emphasizes the inter- Two consecutive $600,000 grants under Title relationships between people and their natural, III of the U.S. Education Act of 1965 have been social, and technological environments. received since 1986 to strengthen computer resources, institutional research, teacher Academic Program education, academic planning and programs, and residential life. The human ecological perspective is developed at The Betterment Fund has awarded over COA by: $125,000 to support the College's scholarship Encouraging interaction between disciplines program, especially to aid students from Maine. and across traditional boundries by means of a non-departmentalized faculty. The U.S. Department of Education's Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education Promoting the acquisition and application of awarded a $133,800 grant in 1991 to support knowledge through internships, independent development of a program in community research and group study projects. planning and decision making. Offering a self-governance system which develops active, responsible citizenship and " collaborative decision-making skills. many of the problems of American Creating an individualized advising team for education could be solved if all the each student. task forces, commissions and Areas of study include: Marine Studies; professional groaners would disband Environmental and Biological Sciences; Public and, with mouths shut and eyes open, Policy; Creative Arts; Environmental Design; visit [College of the Atlantic]." Culture and Consciousness; Education; and Colman McCarthy Writing. Columnist The Washington Post Printed on Recycled Paper FRENCHMAN'SBAY SEA URCHIN & SEA FOX Dormitories THE TURRETS Beatrix Farrand Natural History Museum Gardens KAELBER HALL Thorndike Library ARTS AND SCIENCE BUILDING Newlin Gardens APPLIED ARTS FACILITIES Workshops and Studios College of the Atlantic Route 3 BAR HARBOR, MAINE to Bar Harbor to Ellsworth Academic Facilities Additional buildings house Applied Arts College of the Atlantic's 26-acre campus is located Facilities for ceramics and woodworking. on the shore of Mt. Desert Island. Its proximity to The Turrets, a National Historic Landmark, the ocean and Acadia National Park offers stu- houses faculty and administrative offices, dents unique opportunities for education, research, classrooms, the Natural History Museum, the and recreation. Center for Applied Human Ecology, and the The new Kaelber Hall houses a computer offices of Allied Whale and the Society for center, community lounge, seminar room, a Human Ecology. language/music listening center, and the The Natural History Museum features displays Thorndike Library. It also provides dining and of Maine's flora and fauna developed by faculty kitchen facilities. and students. Through the creation of exhibits The Thorndike Library contains 26,500 and a regional outreach education program, the volumes and 378 periodicals. Through the museum provides a first-class training facility NELINET computer system for inter-library for students of natural history and environmental education. loans, COA students have access to libraries throughout the United States. Allied Whale, a marine mammal research center, compiles the North Atlantic Humpback The Arts and Science Building provides and Finback Whale Catalogues, manages Mt. laboratories for zoology, botany, taxidermy, and Desert Rock Whale & Seabird Observation chemistry/physics as well as an herbarium and Station, and cooperates with the New England two greenhouses. This facility also houses Marine Mammal Stranding Network. studios for design, painting and sculpture, and a photographic darkroom. The computer design The Society for Human Ecology, in cooperation lab contains Computer Assisted Design and with COA, is an international network that Drafting (CAD/D); Geographical Information develops publications and communication links Systems (GIS); and desk-top publishing systems. to serve other human ecology programs and organizations worldwide. Enrollment Operating Budget 88-89 89-90 90-91 91-92 1987-88 $2,623,250 Total Undergraduates 198 217 227 247 1988-89 $3,422,080 New Students 77 78 70 77 1989-90 $3,877,850 Transfers 24 23 38 30 1990-91 $4,095,185 Freshmen 53 55 32 47 1991-92 $4,301,202 Students Receiving Financial Aid 60% 65% 47% 59% Endowment $1,386,160 Graduate Students Masters of Philosophy in Human Ecology 1 6 Annual Economic Impact Summer Field Studies Generated for the local economy $10,750,000 by the Sea 169 162 158 110 Based on a multiplying effect of 2.5 for each dollar spent directly by the College, not including capital expenditures. Geographic Origin of Students Maine 19% Revenues in % in % Massachusetts 13% 1990-91 1991-92 Other New England 14% Tuition & Fees 57 60 New York 12% Gifts & Grants 24 21 Other Mid-Atlantic 19% Restricted Federal Funds 5 5 Midwest 7% Summer Programs 5 5 South 6% Endowment 2 2 West 6% 4% Auxiliary Services 6 6 Foreign Miscellaneous 1 1 TOTAL: 100% TOTAL: 100% 100% Alumni Graduates since 1972 522 Expenditures in % in% 1990-91 1991-92 Faculty Personnel 49 46 Full Time 13 Student Financial Aid 18 19 Part Time 9 Educational Costs & Services 9 9 Adjunct and visiting (total available) 30 General Administration 7 6 Student/Faculty Ratio 10:1 Institutional Advancement 6 6 Staff Auxiliary Services 4 5 Debt Service 3 3 Administrative and Support 39 Capital Equipment & Improvements 2 3 Course Offerings Contingency 2 3 1991-92 Academic Year 123 TOTAL: 100% 100% (Does not include independent studies, group studies, tutorials, internships, and senior projects.) The distinctive logo of College of the Atlantic is derived from ancient symbols h for tree X for human The three signs are intertwined in a circle and for ocean. symbolizing the earth and the universe. Board of Trustees Alice Eno Princeton, NJ Officers Former President, Chapin School Edward McC. Blair, Chairman President of Mercer County Chicago, IL Planned Parenthood Association Senior Partner, William Blair & Co. Stanley Evans Trustee, University of Chicago Portland, ME Trustee, Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke's Medical Director, Alcohol Institute, Medical Center Eastern Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital John N. Kelly, Vice Chair Chairman, Association of Governing Boards of Yarmouth, Me Universities and Colleges Attorney, Kelly, Remmel and Zimmerman Vice-Chair, Public Broadcasting System Member of the Board, Maine Bar Foundation Washington, DC Former President, American Bar Association Philip L. Geyelin Cathy Ramsdell '78, Vice Chair Washington, D.C. Bangor, Me Scholar in Residence, Woodrow Wilson Center Staff Accountant, Loiselle and Beatham, CPAs Member of the Board, New York Council on Foreign Relations John M. Kauffmann, Secretary Author and journalist Mount Desert, ME Retired National Park Service Planner William J. Ginn '74 Director, Friends of Acadia Pownal, ME Director, Parks International President, Resource Conservation Services Vice President, Browning Ferris Industries Leslie C. Brewer, Treasurer Member of the Board, Mainewatch, Inc. Bar Harbor, ME Bar Harbor Businessman Bettina B. Hinckley Member of the Board, First National Bank Manset, ME of Bar Harbor Treasurer and Charter Broker, Hinckley Yacht Brokerage Members Co-Founder and Former Manager-Treasurer, Bass Harbor Marine John O. Biderman '77 Duxbury, MA Trustee, Carrabassett Valley Academy Senior Programmer Analyst, The Forum Corporation Michael Kaiser '83 Member of the Board, Plymouth County New York, NY Wildlands Trust Alumni Trustee Alida Camp Acting Associate Director, Victim Services East Bluehill, ME Susan Storey Lyman Honorary Life Trustee, Colby College Boston, MA Vice President, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Former President, Massachusetts Society for the Director, Maine Community Foundation Prevention of Cruelty to Children Former President of the Rutland Corner House Samuel A. Eliot Danville, CA Former Chair of the Trustees, Radcliffe College President, The Athenian School Katherine Gates McCoy Former Vice President of COA Steamboat Springs, CO Former Director of Development, University of Brandywine River Museum & Conservancy Southern Maine Historical Preservation in Chester County, PA Edward J. Meade, Jr. Elizabeth S. Russell Montclair, NJ Mt. Desert, ME Former Chief Program Officer, Ford Foundation Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, The Jackson Member, NJ State Board of Higher Education Laboratory Member, Board of Directors, Professor, Cuttington University College, Liberia Reading-is-Fundamental, Inc. Member, National Academy of Sciences J. Mason Morfit Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Freeport, ME Salisbury Cove, ME Vice President, The Nature Conservancy, Research Scientist Maine Chapter Trustee and Former President of Mount Desert Member, Governor's Task Force, Northern Forest Island Biological Laboratory Lands Study Former Chairman, Department of Biology, Case Member, Portland Committee on Foreign Relations Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio William V.P. Newlin Peter H. Sellers Washington, D.C. Philadelphia, PA Author Faculty Member, Rockefeller University Retired Foreign Service Officer Trustee, Nicholas Newlin Foundation Author, numerous mathematical publications Henry D. Owen Washington, D.C. Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Principal, Consultants International Group Washington, D.C. Former Ambassador-at-Large and Director, People for the American Way Special Representative of the President Former Vice President, March of Dimes for International Summits Former Deputy General Counsel for AID Former Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Leonard Silk Brookings Institution Montclair, NJ Louis Rabineau, Ex Officio Economics Columnist, The New York Times Bar Harbor, ME Distinguished Professor of Economics, Pace President, College of the Atlantic University Senior Vice President, Academy for Educational Trustee, William Paterson College Development Deicy B. Stockwell Former Chancellor of Higher Education, Connecticut Boxford, MA John Reeves COA Parent Trustee Bar Harbor, ME Head of Creative Arts, Brookwood School President and CEO, Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. John F. Stockwell Director, Maine Bankers Association Boxford, MA Trustee and Member of the Board, Bar Harbor YMCA COA Parent Trustee Maurine Rothschild Vice President, A.G. Edwards & Sons New York, NY Donald B. Straus Trustee, Radcliffe College New York, NY Member, Maine Arts Commission President Emeritus, American Arbitration Association President, Farnsworth Museum Trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Trustee, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies Robert Suminsby Northeast Harbor, ME Faculty Owner, The Knowles Company John Anderson Honorary Trustee, Friends of Acadia B.A. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Member, Land for Maine's Future Board 1979; M.A. Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Phyllis A. Thompson Francisco State University, 1982; Ph.D. Biological Chestnut Hill, MA Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 1987. Trustee, The Park School Course areas: zoology, behavioral ecology, and Trustee, Boston Theological Institute anatomy and physiology Member, Visiting Committee, Department of Elmer Beal Prints and Drawings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts B.A. Music, Bowdoin College, 1965; M.A. Carol A. Wishcamper Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1977. Freeport, ME Course areas: ethnology, anthropological theory, and Chair, Maine Chapter, The Nature Conservancy traditional music Member of the Executive Committee, New England Richard Borden Association of Schools and Colleges B.A. Psychology and Anthropology, University of Former Chair, Maine State Board of Education Texas, 1968, Ph.D. Psychology, Kent State University, 1972. Life Trustees Course areas: environmental psychology, personality Robert E. Blum and social development, contemporary psychology, and philosophy of human ecology John C. Dreier Rev. James M. Gower William Buyers-Basso B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic, 1983; Elizabeth F. Thorndike National Museum of Natural History, Ottawa, Canada, Charles R. Tyson 1983-84. Course areas: taxidermy and museum display preparation Administration JoAnne Carpenter Louis Rabineau, President B.A. History, University of Massachusetts, 1962; M.A. Edward G. Kaelber, Founding President and Art and Architectural History, University of Counsel to the President Minnesota, 1970. University of Pennsylvania, 1990-91. Dallas L. Darland, Vice President for Course areas: art, architectural history, and Maine Development and External Affairs coast history and architecture Melville P. Cote, Administrative Dean William Carpenter Richard Borden, Academic Dean B.A. English, Dartmouth College, 1962; Ph.D. English, University of Minnesota, 1967. Liane Peach, Business Manager Course areas: literature, creative writing, Steve Thomas, Director of Admissions and comparative mythology, and Maine coast history and Financial Aid architecture Sally Crock, Registrar Donald Cass Millard Dority, Director of Buildings B.A. Chemistry, Carleton College, 1973; Ph.D. and Grounds Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1977. Theodore Koffman, Director of Government Course areas: chemistry, physics, and mathematics Relations, Housing, and Summer Programs Kenneth Cline Elena Tuhy, Director of Public Affairs B.A. Political Science, Hiram College, 1980; J.D. Gary Friedmann, Director of Development Case Western Reserve University, 1983. Course areas: public policy and environmental law John Cooper Alesia Maltz B.A. in Music Education, Trenton State College, 1975. B.A. Hampshire College, 1978; A.M., Ph.D., History M.A. in Music Compsition, Trenton State College, and Philosophy of Science, University of Illinois, 1981. 1981, 1990. Course areas: music fundamentals, aesthetics of music Course areas: history of science and medicine, and improvisation women's studies, oral history, and history William Drury Isabel M. Mancinelli A.B. Biology, Harvard University, 1942; Ph.D. B.S. Architecture, Catholic University of America, Biology and Geology, Harvard University, 1952. 1975; Master of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Course areas: ecology, botany, ornithology, natural University, 1981. history, and geomorphology Course areas: land use planning, landscape design, architecture Marcia Dworak B.A. History, M.S. Library Science, California State Ernest McMullen University, Fullerton, 1972, 1973; M.A. Admini- Art, University of Maryland, Portland Museum stration, Sangamon (IL) State University, 1979. School, Portland State University, Oregon, 1965-1970. Course areas: children's literature, government, and Course areas: ceramics and visual studies legal research Donald Meiklejohn Craig Greene A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1930; Ph.D. B.S. Biology, State University of New York at Philosophy, Harvard University, 1936. Syracuse, 1971; M.Sc. Plant Taxonomy, University of Course area: public policy Alberta, 1974; Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1980. Etta Mooser Course areas: botany, evolution, and plant ecology B.A. Lewis and Clark College, 1966; Ed.M., Ph.D., Philosophy and Education, Teacher's College, Steven Katona Columbia University, 1984, 1987. B.A., Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1965, 1971. Course area: contemporary education Course areas: ecology, zoology and marine biology Suzanne R. Morse Martin Koeppl B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1980; Ph.D. B.S. Geography, University of Munich, West Botany, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Germany, 1977; M.A. Geography, Wayne State Course areas: applied botany, plant ecology and University, Michigan 1980; Ph. D. Geography, Clark tropical studies University, 1987. Course areas: education, geography, media, and Christopher Petersen design B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976; Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University Anne Kozak of Arizona, 1985. A.B. Salve Regina College, 1959; M.A. St. Louis Course areas: ichthyology and marine ecology University, 1962. Course area: writing John Visvader B.A. Philosophy, CUNY, 1960; Ph.D. Philosophy, Susan Lerner University of Minnesota, 1966. B.A. English, University of Cincinnati, 1969; Course areas: philosophy, philosophy of science, and California Institute of the Arts, 1971. history of ideas Course areas: literature and women's studies "College of the Atlantic makes a genuine attempt to have students interweave their fields in a way that is personally and socially meaningful the thing to do is to make American education look like education at College of the Atlantic." 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