College of the Atlantic The College at a glance 1987-88 College of the Atlantic Overview A Record of Achievement COA is a private, liberal arts college What can a COA graduate do with a degree offering a unique, interdisciplinary in Human Ecology? program in Human Ecology to a select About 30% go on to graduate programs group of highly motivated students. at universities such as Harvard, Yale, COA's mission is to equip students with MIT, and the University of California at the knowledge, understanding, Berkeley, where they earn advanced degrees enthusiasm, and sensitivity to solve in fields as diverse as law, divinity, botany, complex environmental and social and computer science. problems from a multiple and humanistic Others move directly into the professional perspective. realm, forging careers in education, COA was founded in 1969, and admitted journalism, business, public its first students in 1972. administration, and conservation. Every year since 1982, a COA senior has Academic Program been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to support a full year of travel COA is the only college in the country and study abroad. which grants as its sole degree a B.A. in The record is clear: a thorough grounding Human Ecology. in the principles of human ecology Human Ecology emphasizes the provides a strong basis for future career interrelationships between people and development. their natural, social, and technological environments. Attracting Major Support Encouraged to move easily between disciplines and across traditional Examples of recent special project grants boundaries, COA students gain the received from private foundations and the resourcefulness and independence needed federal government: to successfully meet the challenges of a The Pew Memorial Trust awarded rapidly changing society. $400,000 to help complete the new arts and COA has no departments. Each student science building. constructs an individualized advising The U.S. Department of Education team and program. Areas of study awarded an $80,000 three-year grant from include: Marine Studies, Environmental the Fund for the Improvement of and Biological Sciences, Public Policy, Postsecondary Education to improve Creative Arts, Environmental Design, COA's teacher education program. Culture and Consciousness, Education, A $591,000, three-year grant under Title and Writing. III of the U.S. Education Act of 1965 was funded to strengthen computer resources, institutional research, and teacher education. Academic Facilities Enrollment The Phoenix Fund, the $6 million campaign 1985-86 1986-87 1987-88 to rebuild College of the Atlantic, has already Total Undergraduates 114 137 168 provided the College with extensive new New Students 36 62 68 laboratory, studio, and classroom facilities, Transfers 23 26 25 in addition to those already available. Freshmen 13 36 43 Students Receiving COA has laboratories for zoology, botany, Financial Aid 59% 68% 60% taxidermy, and combined chemistry and Graduate Students physics; a herbarium; two greenhouses; (Summer Field Studies several design studios; a photographic by the Sea) 135 148 166 darkroom, a ceramics studio, and a student woodworking shop, all of which are fully accessible to the handicapped. Geographic Origin of Students The Thorndike Library contains 21,000 Maine 21% volumes and 376 periodicals. Through the Massachusetts 15% NELINET computer system for inter-library Other New England 16% loans, COA students have access to libraries New York 12% Other Mid-Atlantic 15% throughout the United States. Mid West 7% COA students and faculty have developed a South 7% Natural History Museum on campus West 5% featuring displays of Mt. Desert Island flora Foreign 2% and fauna. Through the creation of exhibits TOTAL 100% and a regional outreach education program, the museum provides a first-class training Alumni facility for students of natural history and Graduates since 1972 379 environmental education. COA is home to Allied Whale, a marine Faculty mammal research center which coordinates Full time 14 the North Atlantic Humpback and Finback Part time 8 Whale Catalogues, Mt. Desert Rock Whale Adjunct and visiting 20 & Seabird Observation Station, and Student/Faculty Ratio 8:1 cooperates with the New England Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Staff The 26-acre shorefront campus on Mt. Administrative, Support, and Physical Plant Desert Island allows students to take Employees 30 advantage of the abundant natural resources of the Atlantic Ocean and of nearby Acadia Course Offerings National Park. 1986-87 Academic year 98 (Does not include independent studies, group studies, tutorials, internships, and senior projects.) "COA has its roots in the humanistic and scientific traditions which affect the present and help in shaping the future." - Louis Rabineau, President Operating Budget Stewardship 1985-86 $2,021,376 A highly distinguished Board of Trustees meets 1986-87 $2,478,680 regularly to oversee academic policy, manage 1987-88 $2,623,250 financial resources, and plan for the future. Students and faculty participate in all facets of decision Endowment making and serve on all standing committees. $918,309 Edward McC. Blair, Chairman (Chicago, IL) Annual Economic Impact Senior Partner, William Blair & Co. Trustee, University of Chicago Generated for the local economy $6,558,125 Trustee, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Based on a multiplying effect of 2.5 times each Medical Center dollar spent directly by the College, not including Neva Goodwin, Vice Chair (Cambridge, MA) capital expenditures. Lecturer in Economics, Boston University Trustee, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Revenues Trustee, Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development 1986-87 1987-88 John Kauffmann, Vice Chair and Secretary (Mt. Desert, ME) Tuition & Fees 41% 46% Retired National Park Service Planner Gifts & Grants 38% 31% Director, American Rivers Conservation Council Restricted Federal Funds 7% 6% Vice President, Natural Resources Summer Programs 6% 7% Council of Maine Endowment 5% 6% Leslie C. Brewer, Treasurer (Bar Harbor, ME) Dorms/Food Service 3% 4% Bar Harbor Businessman TOTAL 100% 100% Member of the Board, First National Bank of Bar Harbor John O. Biderman (Duxbury, MA) Expenditures COA Alumnus 1986-87 1987-88 Communications and Micro-Computer Consultant Personnel 53% 51% Alida Camp (East Bluehill, ME) Student Financial Aid 11% 15% Honorary Life Trustee, Colby College General Administration 11% 8% Vice-President, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Other Educational Director, Maine Community Foundation Costs & Services 9% 11% John C. Dreier (Southwest Harbor, ME and Cambridge, MA) Institutional Advancement 9% 9% Former Ambassador to the Organization of Dorms/Food Service 4% 3% American States Debt Service 2% 2% Former Professor, The Johns Hopkins University Contingency 1% 1% Director, Maine Coast, Heritage Trust TOTAL 100% 100% Samuel A. Eliot (Danville, CA) Head, The Athenian School Alice Eno (Princeton, NJ) Former President, Chapin School President of Mercer County Planned Parenthood Association The distinctive logo of College of the William G. Foulke (Philadelphia, PA) Atlantic is derived from ancient symbols: Chairman, Pardee Management Company h Former Chairman and CEO, Provident National Bank for trees X Rev. James M. Gower (Bucksport, ME) for humans Pastor, St. Vincent's Parish and for oceans The three signs are intertwined in a circle symbolizing the earth and the universe. Thomas S. Hall (St. Louis, MO) Peter H. Sellers (Philadelphia, PA) Professor Emeritus of Biology and History of Faculty Member, Rockefeller University Science Board Member, Nicholas Newlin Foundation Former Dean of the College of Arts and Science, Author, numerous mathematical publications Washington University Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. (Washington, DC) Life Trustee, Missouri Botanical Garden Director, People for the American Way John N. Kelly (Yarmouth, ME) Former Vice President, March of Dimes Attorney, Kelly, Remmel and Zimmerman Leonard Silk (Montclair, NJ) Member and Past President, Maine Bar Economics Columnist, The New York Times Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, Member and Past President, Maine State Bar Pace University Association Trustee, William Paterson College Member and Past Chairman, New England Bar Board of Visitors, Graduate School, City Association University of New York Francis Keppel (Cambridge, MA) Donald B. Straus (New York, NY) Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard University President Emeritus, American Arbitration Former U.S. Commissioner of Education Association Edward J. Meade, Jr. (Montclair, NJ) Trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Chief Program Officer, Ford Foundation Peace Member, Visiting Committee, School of Education, Trustee, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies Syracuse University Robert Suminsby (Northeast Harbor, ME) William V. P. Newlin (Washington, D.C.) President, The Knowles Company Retired Foreign Service Officer and Author Phyllis A. Thompson (Chestnut Hill, MA) Director, Alliance Français Trustee, The Park School Trustee, U.S. Board, University of the Valley, Trustee, Boston Theological Institute Guatemala Member, Visiting Committee, Department of Louis Rabineau, Ex Officio (Bar Harbor, ME) Prints and Drawings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts President, College of the Atlantic Elizabeth F. Thorndike (Bar Harbor, ME) Cathy Ramsdell Sweet (Hulls Cove, ME) Trustee, The Jackson Laboratory COA Alumna Trustee, Robert Abbe Museum Staff Accountant, Loiselle and Beatham, CPAs Director, Wild Gardens of Acadia Maurine Rothschild (New York, NY) Charles R. Tyson (Ambler, PA) Trustee, Radcliffe College Former Director, Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania Member, Maine Arts Commission Former Director, CPC International Member, Maine Humanities Council Former Trustee, The Penn Mutual Life President, Farnsworth Museum Insurance Company Elizabeth S. Russell (Mt. Desert, ME) James H. Wakelin, Jr. (Washington, DC) Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, The Jackson Trustee and Member, Committee on Research & Laboratory Exploration, The National Geographic Society Member, National Academy of Sciences Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Member, Eastern Area Agency on Aging Research and Development Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen (Salisbury Cove, ME) Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trustee and Past President of Mount Desert Science and Technology Island Biological Laboratory Robert E. Blum, Life Trustee (Lakeville, CT) Former President of the American Physiological Retired Business Executive Society Former Chairman, Brooklyn Museum Former Chairman, Department of Biology, Case Former head of several cultural, conservation, and Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio civic organizations Faculty Course areas: ecology, botany, ornithology, natural history, and geomorphology. John Anderson Marcia Dworak B.A. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, B.A. History, M.S. Library Science, California State 1979; M.A. Ecology and Systematic Biology, San University, Fullerton, 1972, 1973; M.A. Administration, Francisco State University, 1982; Ph.D. Biological Sangamon (IL) State University, 1979. Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 1987. Course areas: children's literature, government, and Course areas: zoology, behavioral ecology, and legal research. anatomy and physiology. Craig Greene Elmer Beal B.S. Biology, State University of New York at Syracuse, B.A. Music, Bowdoin College, 1965; M.A. Anthro- 1971; M.Sc. Plant Taxonomy, University of Alberta, pology, University of Texas at Austin, 1977. 1974; Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1980. Course areas: ethonology, anthropological theory, Course areas: botany, evolution, and plant ecology. and traditional music. Harris Hyman Richard Borden B.S. Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.A. Psychology and Anthropology, University of 1957; F.K. University of Stockholm, 1961. Texas, 1968; Ph.D. Psychology, Kent State University, Course areas: mathematics, computers, energy 1972. studies, and structural design. Course areas: environmental psychology, personality Steven Katona and social development, contemporary psychology, and philosophy of human ecology. B.A., Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1965, 1971. Course areas: ecology, zoology, and marine biology. John Buell Carl Ketchum B.A. American Studies, Amherst, 1967; M.A. American History, Columbia, 1968; Ph.D. Political B.S. Mathematics and Physics, Bates College, 1962; Science, University of Massachusetts, 1974. M.S. Oceanography, New York University, 1967; Course areas: political theory, political economy, Ph.D. Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of and history of ethics. Technology, 1968. Course areas: physics, computers, mathematics, and Stewart Brecher oceanography. B.S. Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Anne Kozak 1964; Ph.D. candidate, Center for Policy Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo. A.B. Salve Regina College, 1959; M.A. St. Louis Course area: environmental design. University, 1962. Course areas: writing. JoAnne Carpenter Susan Lerner B.A. History, University of Massachusetts, 1962; M.A. Art and Architectural History, University of B.A. English, University of Cincinnati, 1969; California Institute of the Arts, 1971. Minnesota, 1970. Course areas: literature and women's studies. Course areas: art, architectural history, and Maine coast history and architecture. Ernest McMullen William Carpenter Art, University of Maryland, Portland Museum School, B.A. English, Dartmouth College, 1962; Ph.D. Portland State University, Oregon, 1965-1970. Course areas: ceramics and visual studies. English, University of Minnesota, 1967. Course areas: literature, creative writing, comparative Donald Meiklejohn mythology, and Maine coast history and architecture. A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1930; Ph.D. Philosophy, Donald Cass Harvard University, 1936. B.A. Chemistry, Carleton College, 1973; Ph.D. Course area: public policy. Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1977. Peter Owens Course areas: chemistry, physics, and mathematics. B.A. Art and Geography, Middlebury College, 1980; Peter Corcoran M.A. Landscape Architecture and Planning, Conway B.A. Antioch College, 1972; M.Ed. University of Maine (MA) School of Landscape Design, 1983. at Orono, 1980; Ed.D. Science and Environmental Edu- Course areas: landscape design and urban planning. cation, University of Maine at Orono, 1986. John Visvader Course area: ecological education. B.A. Philosophy, CUNY, 1960; Ph.D. Philosophy, William Drury University of Minnesota, 1966. B.A. Biology, Harvard University, 1942; Ph.D. Botany Course areas: philosophy, philosophy of science, and Geology, Harvard University, 1952. and history of ideas. "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." FRANCIS KEPPEL, COA TRUSTEE AND FORMER U.S. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 (207) 288-5015 October, 1987