College of the Atlantic The College at a glance Overview Human Ecology Academic Program Alumni Achievements Grant Support Academic Facilities Enrollment Finances 1 1 Trustees Faculty 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 social, and technological environments. been received since 1986 to strengthen computer resources, institutional research, Academic Program teacher education, academic planning and programs, and residential life. The human ecological perspective is developed at The Betterment Fund has awarded over COA by: Encouraging interaction between disciplines $125,000 to support the College's scholarship and across traditional boundries by means of a program, especially to aid students from Maine. non-departmentalized faculty. The Pew Memorial Trust awarded $400,000 to Promoting the acquisition and application of help complete the new arts and science knowledge through internships, independent building. research and group study projects. Offering a self-governance system which develops active, responsible citizenship and "...many of the problems of American collaborative decision-making skills. 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; Culture and Consciousness; Education; and visit {College of the Atlantic}." Writing. Colman McCarthy Columnist The Washington Post Printed on Recycled Paper FRENCHMAN'SBAY SEA URCHIN & SEA FOX Dormitories Beatrix Farrand THE TURRETS Gardens Natural History Museum KAELBER HALL Thorndike Library ARTS AND SCIENCE BUILDING Newlin Gardens APPLIED ARTS FACILITIES Workshops and Studios College of the Atlantic Route 3 to Ellsworth BAR HARBOR, MAINE to Bar Harbor Academic Facilities College of the Atlantic's 26-acre campus is located Additional buildings house Applied Arts on the shore of Mt. Desert Island. Its proximity to Facilities for ceramics and woodworking. the ocean and Acadia National Park offers stu- dents unique opportunities for education, The Turrets, a National Historic Landmark, research, and recreation. houses faculty and administrative offices, classrooms, the Natural History Museum, and The new Kaelber Hall houses a computer the 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 24,000 and a regional outreach education program, volumes and 377 periodicals. Through the the museum provides a first-class training NELINET computer system for inter-library facility for students of natural history and loans, COA students have access to libraries environmental education. throughout the United States. Allied Whale, a marine mammal research The Arts and Science Building provides center, compiles the North Atlantic Humpback laboratories for zoology, botany, taxidermy, and Finback Whale Catalogues, manages Mt. and chemistry/physics as well as an herbarium Desert Rock Whale & Seabird Observation and two greenhouses. This facility also houses Station, and cooperates with the New England studios for design, painting and sculpture, and Marine Mammal Stranding Network. a photographic darkroom. The computer The Society for Human Ecology, in cooperation design lab contains Computer Assisted Design with COA, is an international network that and Drafting (CAD/D); Geographical develops publications and communication Information Systems (GIS); and desk-top links to serve other human ecology programs publishing systems. and organizations worldwide. Enrollment Operating Budget 1987-88 88-89 89-90 90-91 1986-87 $2,478,680 Total Undergraduates 168 198 217 227 1987-88 $2,623,250 New Students 68 77 78 70 1988-89 $3,422,080 Transfers 25 24 23 38 1989-90 $3,877,850 Freshmen 43 53 55 32 1990-91 $4,095,185 Students Receiving Financial Aid 68% 60% 65% 47% Endowment $1,168,852 Graduate Students (Summer Field Studies by the Sea) 166 169 162 158 Annual Economic Impact Generated for the local economy $10,000,000 Geographic Origin of Students Based on a multiplying effect of 2.5 for each dollar spent Maine 20% directly by the College, not including capital expenditures. Massachusetts 16% Other New England 16% Revenues in % in % New York 15% 1989-90 1990-91 Other Mid-Atlantic 20% Midwest 5% Tuition & Fees 54 57 South 2% Gifts & Grants 26 24 West 4% Restricted Federal Funds 6 5 Foreign 2% Summer Programs 5 5 TOTAL: 100% Endowment 5 2 Auxiliary Services 4 6 Alumni Miscellaneous - 1 Graduates since 1972 477 TOTAL: 100% 100% Faculty Full Time 11 Expenditures in % in% Part Time 12 1989-90 1990-91 Adjunct and visiting (total available) 30 Personnel 48 49 Student/Faculty Ratio 10:1 Student Financial Aid 17 18 Educational Costs Staff & Services 11 9 Administrative and Support 39 General Administration 7 7 Institutional Advancement 7 6 Course Offerings Auxiliary Services 3 4 1989-90 Academic Year 120 Debt Service 3 3 (Does not include independent studies, group studies, Capital Equipment Improvements 2 2 tutorials, internships, and senior projects.) Contingency 2 2 TOTAL: 100% 100% The distinctive logo of College of the Atlantic is derived from ancient symbols 2 for tree The three signs are intertwined in a circle for human symbolizing the earth and the universe. and for ocean. Board of Trustees Samuel A. Eliot Danville, CA Officers President, The Athenian School Former Vice President of COA Edward McC. Blair, Chairman Former Director of Development, University of Chicago, IL Southern Maine Senior Partner, William Blair & Co. Trustee, University of Chicago Alice Eno Trustee, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Princeton, NJ Medical Center Former President, Chapin School President of Mercer County John N. Kelly, Vice Chair Planned Parenthood Association Yarmouth, Me Attorney, Kelly, Remmel and Zimmerman Stanley Evans Member of the Board, Maine Bar Foundation Portland, ME Former President, American Bar Association Medical Director, Alcohol Institute, Eastern Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital John M. Kauffmann, Vice Chair and Secretary Chairman, Association of Governing Boards of Mount Desert, ME Universities and Colleges Retired National Park Service Planner Vice-Chair, Public Broadcasting System, Director, American Rivers Conservation Council Washington, DC Vice President, Natural Resources Council of Maine Bayard Ewing Leslie C. Brewer, Treasurer Providence, RI Bar Harbor, ME Of Counsel, Tillinghast, Collins and Graham Bar Harbor Businessman Life Trustee and Former Chair, Rhode Island School Member of the Board, First National Bank of Design of Bar Harbor Former Chair, United Way of America Members Robert H. Gardiner Augusta, ME Donald D. Allen President and General Manager, WCBB-TV Bar Harbor, ME Vice Chair, National Wildlife Federation Owner, Don's Shop and Save Member, Maine Humanities Council Member of the Board, First National Bank of Bar Harbor Bettina B. Hinckley Member of the Board, Kid's Corner Day Care Center Manset, ME Treasurer and Charter Broker, Hinckley Yacht John O. Biderman Brokerage Duxbury, MA Co-Founder and Former Manager-Treasurer, COA Class of '77 Bass Harbor Marine Senior Programmer Analyst, The Forum Corporation Trustee, Carrabassett Valley Academy Member of the Board, Plymouth County Wildlands Trust Michael Kaiser New York, NY Alida Camp COA Class of '83 East Bluehill, ME Director of Systems, Victims Service Agency Honorary Life Trustee, Colby College Vice President, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Director, Maine Community Foundation Susan Storey Lyman Maurine Rothschild Boston, MA New York, NY Former President, Massachusetts Society for the Trustee, Radcliffe College Prevention of Cruelty to Children Member, Maine Arts Commission Former President of the Rutland Corner House President, Farnsworth Museum Former Chair of the Trustees, Radcliffe College Elizabeth S. Russell Edward J. Meade, Jr. Mt. Desert, ME Montclair, NJ Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, The Jackson Former Chief Program Officer, Ford Foundation Laboratory Member, NJ State Board of Higher Education Professor, Cuttington University College, Liberia Member, Board of Directors, Member, National Academy of Sciences Reading-is-Fundamental, Inc. Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen J. Mason Morfit Salisbury Cove, ME Freeport, ME Research Scientist Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy, Trustee and Former President of Mount Desert Maine Chapter Island Biological Laboratory Member, Governor's Task Force, Northern Forest Former Chairman, Department of Biology, Case Lands Study Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Member, Portland Committee on Foreign Relations Peter H. Sellers William V.P. Newlin Philadelphia, PA Washington, D.C. Faculty Member, Rockefeller University Author Trustee, Nicholas Newlin Foundation Retired Foreign Service Officer Author, numerous mathematical publications Henry D. Owen Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Principal, Consultants International Group Director, People for the American Way Former Ambassador-at-Large and Former Vice President, March of Dimes Special Representative of the President Former Deputy General Counsel for AID for International Summits Former Director, Foreign Policy Studies, Leonard Silk Brookings Institution Montclair, NJ Economics Columnist, The New York Times Louis Rabineau, Ex Officio Distinguished Professor of Economics, Pace Bar Harbor, ME University President, College of the Atlantic Trustee, William Paterson College Senior Vice President, Academy for Educational Development Deicy B. Stockwell Former Chancellor of Higher Education, Connecticut Boxford, MA COA Parent Trustee Cathy Ramsdell Head of Creative Arts, Brookwood School Bangor, ME COA Class of '78 John F. Stockwell Staff Accountant, Loiselle and Beatham, CPAs Boxford, MA COA Parent Trustee John Reeves Vice President, A.G. Edwards & Sons Bar Harbor, ME President and CEO, Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Director, Maine Bankers Association Trustee and Member of the Board, Bar Harbor YMCA Donald B. Straus Faculty New York, NY President Emeritus, American Arbitration Association John Anderson Trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace B.A. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Trustee, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies 1979; M.A. Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Francisco State University, 1982; Ph.D. Biological Robert Suminsby Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 1987. Northeast Harbor, ME Course areas: zoology, behavioral ecology, and President, The Knowles Company anatomy and physiology Vice Chair, Friends of Acadia Elmer Beal B.A. Music, Bowdoin College, 1965; M.A. Phyllis A. Thompson Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1977. Chestnut Hill, MA Course areas: ethnology, anthropological theory, and Trustee, The Park School traditional music Trustee, Boston Theological Institute Member, Visiting Committee, Department of Richard Borden Prints and Drawings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts B.A. Psychology and Anthropology, University of Texas, 1968, Ph.D. Psychology, Kent State University, James H. Wakelin, Jr. 1972. Washington, D.C. Course areas: environmental psychology, personality Trustee and Member, Committee on Research & and social development, contemporary psychology, and Exploration, The National Geographic Society philosophy of human ecology Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development John Buell Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for B.A. American Studies, Amherst, 1967; M.A. Science and Technology American History, Columbia, 1968; Ph.D. Political Science, University of Massachusetts, 1974. Mary Clark Webster Course areas: political theory, political economy, and Cape Elizabeth, ME the history of ethics Former Minority Leader, Maine House of Representatives William Buyers-Basso Member, World Service Council, National YWCA B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic, 1983; Former Executive Committee Member, Maine National Museum of Natural History, Ottawa, Audubon Society Canada, 1983-84. Course areas: taxidermy and museum display Life Trustees preparation Robert E. Blum JoAnne Carpenter John C. Dreier B.A. History, University of Massachusetts, 1962; M.A. Rev. James M. Gower Art and Architectural History, University of Elizabeth F. Thorndike Minnesota, 1970. University of Pennsylvania, 1990-91. Charles R. Tyson Course areas: art, architectural history, and Maine coast history and architecture William Carpenter B.A. English, Dartmouth College, 1962; Ph.D. English, University of Minnesota, 1967. Course areas: literature, creative writing, comparative mythology, and Maine coast history and architecture Donald Cass Anne Kozak B.A. Chemistry, Carleton College, 1973; Ph.D. A.B. Salve Regina College, 1959; M.A. St. Louis Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1977. University, 1962. Course areas: chemistry, physics, and mathematics Course area: writing Kenneth Cline Susan Lerner B.A. Political Science, Hiram College, 1980; J.D. Case B.A. English, University of Cincinnati, 1969; Western Reserve University, 1983. California Institute of the Arts, 1971. Course areas: public policy and environmental law Course areas: literature and women's studies John Cooper Alesia Maltz B.A. in Music Education, Trenton State College, B.A. Hampshire College, 1978; A.M., Ph.D., History 1975. M.A. in Music Compsition, Trenton State and Philosophy of Science, University of Illinois, 1981, College, 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 Ernest McMullen A.B. Biology, Harvard University, 1942; Ph.D. Art, University of Maryland, Portland Museum Biology and Geology, Harvard University, 1952. School, Portland State University, Oregon, 1965-1970. Course areas: ecology, botany, ornithology, natural Course areas: ceramics and visual studies history, and geomorphology Donald Meiklejohn Marcia Dworak A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1930; Ph.D. Philosophy, B.A. History, M.S. Library Science, California State Harvard University, 1936. University, Fullerton, 1972, 1973; M.A. Admini- Course area: public policy stration, Sangamon (IL) State University, 1979. Etta Mooser Course areas: children's literature, government, and legal research B.A. Lewis and Clark College, 1966; Ed.M., Ph.D., Philosophy and Education, Teacher's College, Craig Greene Columbia University, 1984, 1987. B.S. Biology, State University of New York at Course area: contemporary education Syracuse, 1971; M.Sc. Plant Taxonomy, University of Suzanne R. Morse Alberta, 1974; Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1980. B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1980; Ph.D. Course areas: botany, evolution, and plant ecology Botany, University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Course areas: applied botany, plant ecology and Steven Katona tropical studies B.A., Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1965, 1971. Course areas: ecology, zoology and marine biology Christopher Petersen B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976; Craig Kesselheim Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic, 1976; of Arizona, 1985. M.A. Teaching, Bridgewater State College, 1981. Course areas: ichthyology and marine ecology Course areas: writing, methods of teaching science, and John Visvader social studies B.A. Philosophy, CUNY, 1960; Ph.D. Philosophy, Martin Koeppl University of Minnesota, 1966. B.S. Geography, University of Munich, West Course areas: philosophy, philosophy of science, and Germany, 1977; M.A. Geography, Wayne State history of ideas University, Michigan 1980; Ph. D. Geography, Clark Mark West University, 1987. B.A. Cooper Union 1980; Graduate Studies, Course areas: education, geography, media, and design University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987. Course areas: architecture and design "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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