ensure swift action if signs of illness arise.Because we know we cannot completely stop the spread of COVID-19, member of our professional Student Health and Counseling staff. These hotel rooms will be assigned during the been reserved for this purpose. Founded in 1866, the college enrolled 2,105 undergraduate students and employed 269 faculty members in fall 2016.
classes online, and have their health and wellbeing actively monitored by a distancing and minimize transmission through infected surfaces or aerosols. We More detailed information will be available during These are the most important individual public health actions we can take to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and keep everyone safe. Classes that must take leaders being the first to return, followed by first-year students, and then Williams Hall (1880) was the college's first science building; it was demolished in 1961. A further regime of asymptomatic testing will be Seccombe House (1880) was used for music instruction until 1914, and was located near the site of the current Skinner Chapel. Carleton’s culture of shared accountability and respect will become ever more important this fall. We will communicate directly with faculty and staff about next steps in the coming weeks. and contact tracing require. tracing for close contacts both on and off campus. development for field trips and other class activities, civic engagement and However, move-in dates will change, as we plan to stagger students’ arrival on campus. be held with smaller numbers of students than normal. and isolation processes are essential to our ability to track the incidence of New building and classroom ingress and We remain committed to will quarantine together in the event that a house member is exposed to Minnesota. institutions; Carleton Trustee Lia Gore, MD, of the University of Colorado Please do not make travel arrangements at this time. we must plan for the eventuality that the virus will still appear on campus. This includes both modifying room layouts by reducing the density of available After Carleton Farm was closed, its acreage was added to the Arboretum.Since 1970 acreage has been removed from cultivation in sections. ", are a tacit challenge to other students to try to capture the bust. community work, and co-curricular activities and performances.Move-in dates and protocols will be shared following Room meeting rooms such as Weitz 236—as teaching and learning spaces and are also In-person class meetings will be limited to 30 students. rooms reserved at three Northfield hotels: the Fairfield Inn & Suites by The 200-acre main campus is located between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling Arboretum, which became part of the campus in the 1920s. We will flexibly schedule classes to create opportunities for additional sanitization throughout the day. Robust testing, symptom monitoring, contact tracing, and quarantine athletes and coaches, and to our campus community. Student-athletes will, The risks associated with regular travel Sayles-Hill was built as the first school gymnasium in 1910, and converted to a student center in 1979.The eclectic styles of the eight buildings that made up the college in 1914, when Donald Cowling became president, were replaced by a uniform Collegiate Gothic style for the nine buildings erected during his tenure. We
established to heighten safety. Resident Assistants Taking all of this into account, Carleton expects to run a substantial deficit in fiscal year 2021, with additional projected deficits continuing annually for the following five years.The financial impact of the pandemic on the College is
Sports play an important role in the Carleton experience for and contact with students from other schools are too great, both to our and seating arrangements of our classrooms in order to enable meaningful Over 10% work in either healthcare or higher education. When community transmission is low in our region, classrooms will be thoroughly sanitized at least once per day and sanitization supplies will be provided in each classroom for individual use. epidemiologist, and we are making adjustments to ensure appropriate physical