Carleton College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield,Minnesota. Founded in 1866,it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling Arboretum,which became part of the campus in the 1920s.
St. Olaf College is a private liberal arts college in Northfield,Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American pastors and farmers led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after the King and the Patron Saint Olaf II of Norway and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It was visited by King Olav in 1987 and King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway in 2011.
The State University of New York at New Paltz is a public university in New Paltz,New York. It traces its origins to the New Paltz Classical School,a secondary institution founded in 1828 and reorganized as an academy in 1833.
Academic freedom is a moral and legal concept expressing the conviction that the freedom of inquiry by faculty members is essential to the mission of the academy as well as the principles of academia,and that scholars should have freedom to teach or communicate ideas or facts without fear of repression,job loss,or imprisonment. While the core of academic freedom covers scholars acting in an academic capacity - as teachers or researchers expressing strictly scholarly viewpoints -,an expansive interpretation extends these occupational safeguards to scholars' speech on matters outside their professional expertise. It is a type of freedom of speech.
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States. AAUP membership includes over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations.
John Edward Sexton is an American lawyer and academic. He is the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law at New York University where he teaches at the law school and NYU's undergraduate colleges. Sexton writes,including books for both the academic and popular press. He also has created several non-profit educational organizations. Sexton served as the fifteenth president of NYU,from 2002 to 2015. During his time as president,NYU's stature rose dramatically into the rank of the world's top universities;and it became the world's first global network university. He was also one of the highest paid presidents of any American university. Sexton has been called a "transformational" figure in higher education and one of the United States' 10 best college presidents.
This is a timeline of historical events relating to Northfield,Minnesota.
Marion LeRoy Burton was the second president of Smith College,serving from 1910 to 1917. He left Smith to become president of the University of Minnesota from 1917 to 1920. In 1920 he became president of the University of Michigan,where he served until his premature death,aged 50,in 1925 from angina.
Jeffrey Sean Lehman is an American scholar,lawyer and academic administrator who is the vice chancellor of New York University Shanghai. Known as an advocate for the role of universities in globalization,he previously served as chancellor and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen,China,president of Cornell University,dean of the University of Michigan Law School,and chairman of Internet2. On April 14,2018,Lehman was one of forty named "The Most Influential Foreign Experts During 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up”at the 16th Conference on International Exchange of Professionals,for his work in higher education in China.
Robert Allen Oden Jr. was the president of Kenyon College from 1995 to 2002,and president of Carleton College from 2002 to 2010. He was also a significant professor in the early years of The Teaching Company,contributing several courses—God and Mankind:Comparative Religions,The Christian Religions and Religious Fundamentalism,and The Old Testament:An Introduction—as well as recruiting professors for the series Great World Religions.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is a conservative non-profit organization whose stated mission is to "support liberal arts education,uphold high academic standards,safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus,and ensure that the next generation receives a philosophically rich,high-quality college education at an affordable price." ACTA does so primarily by calling on trustees to take on a more assertive governing role. It is based in Washington,D.C. and its current president is Michael Poliakoff.
Dr. James Woodward Strong,an American theologian and scholar,was the first president of Carleton College,Minnesota. Despite lifelong illness and injury,Strong was a highly active man throughout his life,juggling multiple professional and personal occupations.
Mark George Yudof is an American law professor and academic administrator. He is a former president of the University of California (2008-2013),former chancellor of the University of Texas System (2002–2008),and former president of the University of Minnesota (1997–2002).
David Bryn-Jones was an historian,educator,Baptist minister,and biographer of U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg,who won the Nobel Peace Prize as one of the authors of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Frank J. Macchiarola,was an American academic. His interests and expertise spanned the legal,academic,executive management and public service areas. From 2008 until his death,Macchiarola was the Chancellor of St. Francis College,after having been the college's president from 1996 to 2008.
The Station is an Italian restaurant and former train station in the village of New Paltz in Ulster County,New York. The building was the first of two railroad stations constructed in the town of New Paltz,and it is the only former Wallkill Valley Railroad station standing at its original location.
Louis E. Newman is the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies,emeritus at Carleton College in Northfield,Minnesota and Associate Vice Provost and Director of Undergraduate Advising and Research at Stanford University.
David Hugh Porter was an American academic and the fifth president of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs,New York,serving from 1987 to 1999. Porter was a professor and lecturer of classics and music,starting his career at Carleton College in Northfield,Minnesota,where he taught from 1962 to 1987.
Steven Salaita is an American scholar,author and public speaker. He became the center of a controversy when the University of Illinois did not hire him as a professor of American Indian Studies following objections to a series of tweets critical of Israel's bombardment of Gaza in 2014. He also experienced similar controversy during the hiring process at the American University of Beirut in 2016.
