College of the Atlantic The College at a glance CONTENTS Overview Human Ecology Academic Program Alumni Achievements Grant Support Campus Facilities Enrollment Data Revenues and Expenditures Board of Trustees Faculty Profiles College of the Atlantic Overview Alumni Achievements COA is a private, liberal arts college offering a What can a COA graduate do with a degree in unique, interdisciplinary program in Human Human Ecology? Ecology to a select group of highly motivated One third go on to graduate programs at students. universities such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, and COA is the only college in the country which the University of California at Berkeley, where grants as its sole degree a B.A. in Human they earn degrees in fields as diverse as law, Ecology. divinity, botany, and computer science. COA's mission is to prepare students to solve Others move directly into the professional complex environmental and social problems in realm, forging careers in education, journalism, the face of rapid world change. business, public administration, and conservation. Human Ecology Every year since 1982, a COA senior has been COA's academic program encourages students awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to to view the world as an interacting whole by support a full year of travel and study abroad. bringing traditional disciplines together The record is clear -- a thorough grounding in through a unifying perspective -- Human the principles of human ecology provides a Ecology. strong basis for future career development. Human Ecology emphasizes the inter- relationships between people and their natural, Grant Support social, and technological environments. Examples of recent special project grants received from private foundations and the federal Academic Program government: The human ecological perspective is developed at Two consecutive $600,000 grants under Title III of the U.S. Education Act of 1965 have been COA by: Encouraging interaction between disciplines received since 1986 to strengthen computer and across traditional boundries by means of a resources, institutional research, teacher non-departmentalized faculty. education, academic planning and programs, and residential life. Promoting the acquisition and application of knowledge through internships, independent The Betterment Fund has awarded over research and group study projects. $125,000 to support the College's scholarship program, especially to aid students from Maine. Offering a self-governance system which develops active responsible citizenship and The Pew Memorial Trust awarded $400,000 to collaborative decision-making skills. help complete the new arts and science building. Creating an individualized advising team for each student. Areas of study include: Marine Studies; Environmental and Biological Sciences; Public "Sooner or later, human ecology under some name Policy; Creative Arts; Environmental Design; or other, will win its way to academic recognition Culture and Consciousness; Education; and and to its proper place in general education." Writing. H. G. Wells (1939) FRENCHM 4 N 'S BAY SEA URCHIN & SEA FOX Dormitories Beatrix Farrand THE TURRETS Gardens Natural History Museum KAELBER HALL Thorndike Library ARTS AND SCIENCE BUILDING APPLIED ARTS FACILITIES Workshops and Studios College of the Atlantic Route 3 to Ellsworth BAR HARBOR, MAINE to Bar Harbor 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 administration, classrooms, dents unique opportunites for education, research, the Natural History Museum, and the offices of and recreation. Allied Whale and the Society for Human The new Kaelber Hall houses a computer Ecology. center, community lounge, seminar rooms, a The Natural History Museum features displays language/music listening center, and the of Maine's flora and fauna developed by faculty Thorndike Library. It also provides dining and and students. Through the creation of exhibits kitchen facilities. and a regional outreach education program, the The Thorndike Library contains 24,000 museum provides a first-class training facility volumes and 377 periodicals. Through the for students of natural history and NELINET computer system for inter-library environmental education. loans, COA students have access to libraries Allied Whale, a marine mammal research throughout the United States. 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 The Society for Human Ecology, in cooperation photographic darkroom. The computer design with COA, is an international network that lab contains Computer Assisted Design and develops publications and communication links Drafting (CAD/D); Geographical Information to serve other human ecology programs and Systems (GIS); and desk-top publishing systems. organizations worldwide. Enrollment Operating Budget 1986-87 87-88 88-89 89-90 1985-86 $2,021,376 Total Undergraduates 137 168 198 217 1986-87 $2,478,680 New Students 62 68 77 78 1987-88 $2,623,250 Transfers 26 25 24 23 1988-89 $3,422,080 Freshmen 36 43 53 55 1989-90 $3,877,850 Students Receiving Financial Aid 68% 60% 65% 66% Endowment $1,103,000 Graduate Students (Summer Field Studies by the Sea) 148 166 169 162 Annual Economic Impact Generated for the local economy $9,700,00 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% New York 14% Revenues in % in % 1988-89 1989-90 Other Mid-Atlantic 20% Midwest 5% Tuition & Fees 51 54 South 4% Gifts & Grants 28 26 West 2% Restricted Federal Funds 6 6 Foreign 3% Summer Programs 5 5 TOTAL: 100% Endowment 5 5 Dorms/Food Service 5 4 Alumni Graduates since 1972 447 TOTAL: 100% 100% Faculty Expenditures in % in% Full Time 13 1988-89 1989-90 Part Time 9 Adjunct and visiting 30 Personnel 45 48 Student/Faculty Ratio 10:1 Student Financial Aid 20 17 General Administration 7 7 Staff Educational Costs & Services 11 12 Administrative, Support, and Physical Plant Institutional Advancement 9 7 Employees 37 Dorms/Food Service 3 3 Debt Service 5 4 Course Offerings Contingency 0 2 1989-90 Academic Year 115 (Does not include independent studies, group studies, TOTAL: 100% 100% tutorials, internships, and senior projects.) The distinctive logo of College of the Atlantic is derived from ancient symbols for tree M for human The three signs are intertwined in a circle and for ocean. symbolizing the earth and the universe. Board of Trustees Samuel A. Eliot A highly distinguished Board of Trustees meets Danville, CA regularly to oversee academic policy, manage President, The Athenian School financial resources, and plan for the future. Former Vice President of COA Students and faculty participate in decision Former Director of Development, University of making and serve on all standing committees. Southern Maine Officers Alice Eno Princeton, NJ Edward McC. Blair, Chairman Former President, Chapin School Chicago, IL President of Mercer County Senior Partner, William Blair & Co. Planned Parenthood Association Trustee, University of Chicago Trustee, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Stanley Evans Medical Center Portland, ME Medical Director, Alcohol Institute, Neva Goodwin, Vice Chair Eastern Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital Cambridge, MA Chairman, Association of Governing Boards of Lecturer in Economics, Boston University Universities and Colleges Trustee, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Vice-Chair, Public Broadcasting System, Trustee, Winrock International Institute for Washington, DC Agricultural Development Bayard Ewing John Kauffmann, Vice Chair and Secretary Providence, RI Mount Desert, ME Of Council, Tillinghast, Collins and Graham Retired National Park Service Planner Life Trustee and Former Chair, Rhode Island School Director, American Rivers Conservation Council of Design Vice President, Natural Resources Council of Maine Former Chair, United Way of America Leslie C. Brewer, Treasurer Robert H. Gardiner Bar Harbor, ME Augusta, ME Bar Harbor Businessman President and General Manager, WCBB-TV Member of the Board, First National Bank Vice Chair, National Wildlife Federation of Bar Harbor Member, Maine Humanities Council Members Thomas S. Hall St. Louis, MO John O. Biderman Professor Emeritus of Biology and History of Duxbury, MA Science; and Former Dean of the College of Arts COA Class of '77 and Science, Washington University Communications and Micro-Computer Consultant Life Trustee, Missouri Botanical Garden Alida Camp Bettina B. Hinkley East Bluehill, ME Manset, ME Honorary Life Trustee, Colby College Treasurer and Charter Broker, Hinkley Yacht Vice-President, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Brokerage Director, Maine Community Foundation Co-Founder and Former Manager-Treasurer, Bass Harbor Marine Trustee, Carrabassett Valley Academy Board of Trustees Samuel A. Eliot A highly distinguished Board of Trustees meets Danville, CA regularly to oversee academic policy, manage President, The Athenian School financial resources, and plan for the future. Former Vice President of COA Students and faculty participate in decision Former Director of Development, University of making and serve on all standing committees. Southern Maine Officers Alice Eno Princeton, NJ Edward McC. Blair, Chairman Former President, Chapin School Chicago, IL President of Mercer County Senior Partner, William Blair & Co. Planned Parenthood Association Trustee, University of Chicago Trustee, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Stanley Evans Medical Center Portland, ME Medical Director, Alcohol Institute, Neva Goodwin, Vice Chair Eastern Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital Cambridge, MA Chairman, Association of Governing Boards of Lecturer in Economics, Boston University Universities and Colleges Trustee, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Vice-Chair, Public Broadcasting System, Trustee, Winrock International Institute for Washington, DC Agricultural Development Bayard Ewing John Kauffmann, Vice Chair and Secretary Providence, RI Mount Desert, ME Of Council, Tillinghast, Collins and Graham Retired National Park Service Planner Life Trustee and Former Chair, Rhode Island School Director, American Rivers Conservation Council of Design Vice President, Natural Resources Council of Maine Former Chair, United Way of America Leslie C. Brewer, Treasurer Robert H. Gardiner Bar Harbor, ME Augusta, ME Bar Harbor Businessman President and General Manager, WCBB-TV Member of the Board, First National Bank Vice Chair, National Wildlife Federation of Bar Harbor Member, Maine Humanities Council Members Thomas S. Hall St. Louis, MO John O. Biderman Professor Emeritus of Biology and History of Duxbury, MA Science; and Former Dean of the College of Arts COA Class of '77 and Science, Washington University Communications and Micro-Computer Consultant Life Trustee, Missouri Botanical Garden Alida Camp Bettina B. Hinkley East Bluehill, ME Manset, ME Honorary Life Trustee, Colby College Treasurer and Charter Broker, Hinkley Yacht Vice-President, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Brokerage Director, Maine Community Foundation Co-Founder and Former Manager-Treasurer, Bass Harbor Marine Trustee, Carrabassett Valley Academy Michael Kaiser John Reeves New York, NY Bar Harbor, ME COA Class of '83 President and CEO, Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Director of Systems, Victims Service Agency Director, Maine Bankers Association Director, Bar Harbor YMCA John N. Kelly Yarmouth, ME Maurine Rothschild Attorney, Kelly, Remmel and Zimmerman New York, NY Member and Former Chairman, New England Trustee, Radcliffe College Bar Association Member, Maine Arts Commission Former President, American Bar Association President, Farnsworth Museum Edward J. Meade, Jr. Elizabeth S. Russell Montclair, NJ Mt. Desert, ME Chief Program Officer, Ford Foundation Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus, The Jackson Member, Visiting Committee, School of Education, Laboratory Syracuse University Professor, Cuttington University College, Liberia Member, Board of Directors, Member, National Academy of Sciences Reading-is-Fundmental Inc. Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen J. Mason Morfit Salisbury Cove, ME Freeport, ME Research Scientist Vice President, The Nature Conservancy 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 Trustee, U.S. Board, University of the Valley, Author, numerous mathematical publications Guatemala Clyde E. Shorey, Jr. Henry D. Owen Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Director, People for the American Way A Principal, Consultants International Group Former Vice President, March of Dimes Ambassador-at-Large and Special Representative of the President for International Summits Leonard Silk Director, Foreign Policy Studies, 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 Member, Maine Audubon Society COA Class of '78 Staff Accountant, Loiselle and Beatham, CPAs John F. Stockwell John C. Dreier Boxford, MA Southwest Harbor, ME and Camgridge, MA COA Parent Trustee Former Ambassador to the Organization of Vice President, A.G. Edwards & Sons American States Former Professor, The Johns Hopkins University Donald B. Straus Trustee, Maine Coast Heritage Trust New York, NY President Emeritus, American Arbitration Association Rev. James M. Gower Trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Bucksport, ME Trustee, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies Pastor, St. Vincent's Parish Member, Maine Community Trust Robert Suminsby Member, Washington-Hancock Community Agency Northeast Harbor, ME President, The Knowles Company Elizabeth F. Thorndike Vice Chair, Friends of Acadia Bar Harbor, ME Trustee, The Jackson Laboratory Phyllis A. Thompson Trustee, Robert Abbe Museum Chestnut Hill, MA Director, Wild Gardens of Acadia Trustee, The Park School Trustee, Boston Theological Institute Charles R. Tyson Member, Visiting Committee, Department of Ambler, PA Prints and Drawings, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Former Director, Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania Former Director, CPC International James H. Wakelin, Jr. Former Trustee, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Washington, D.C. Company Trustee and Member, Committee on Research & Exploration, The National Geographic Society Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Faculty Science and Technology John Anderson Mary Clark Webster B.A. Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Cape Elizabeth, ME 1979; M.A. Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Minority Leader, Maine House of Representatives Francisco State University, 1982; Ph.D. Biological Member, World Service Council, National YWCA Sciences, University of Rhode Island, 1987. Former Executive Committee Member, Maine Course areas: zoology, behavioral ecology, and Audubon Society anatomy and physiology. Elmer Beal B.A. Music, Bowdoin College, 1965; M.A. Life Trustees Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1977. Course areas: ethnology, anthropological theory, and Robert E. Blum traditional music Lakeville, CT Retired Business Executive Richard Borden Former Chairman, Brooklyn Museum B.A. Psychology and Anthropology, University of Former head of several cultural, conservation, and Texas, 1968, Ph.D. Psychology, Kent State University, civic organizations 1972. Course areas: environmental psychology, personality and social development, contemporary psychology, and philosophy of human ecology. John Buell Steven Katona B.A. American Studies, Amherst, 1967; M.A. B.A., Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, 1965, 1971. American History, Columbia, 1968; Ph.D. Political Course areas: ecology, zoology and marine biology. Science, University of Massachusetts, 1974. Course areas: political theory, political economy, and Anne Kozak the history of ethics. A.B. Salve Regina College, 1959; M.A. St. Louis University, 1962. JoAnne Carpenter Course area: writing. B.A. History, University of Massachusetts, 1962; M.A. Art and Architectural History, University of Susan Lerner Minnesota, 1970. B.A. English, University of Cincinnati, 1969; Course areas: art, architectural history, and Maine California Institute of the Arts, 1971. coast history and architecture. Course areas: literature and women's studies. William Carpenter Alesia Maltz B.A. English, Dartmouth College, 1962; Ph.D. B.A. Hampshire College, 1978; M.A., Ph.D., History English, University of Minnesota, 1967. and Philosophy of Science, University of Illinois, 1980, Course areas: literature, creative writing, comparative 1988. mythology, and Maine coast history and architecture. Course areas: history of science and medicine, women's studies, oral history, and history. Donald Cass B.A. Chemistry, Carleton College, 1973; Ph.D. Ernest McMullen Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, 1977. Art, University of Maryland, Portland Museum Course areas: chemistry, physics, and mathematics. School, Portland State University, Oregon, 1965-1970. Course areas: ceramics and visual studies. Kenneth Cline B.A. Political Science, Hiram College, 1980; J.D. Case Donald Meiklejohn Western Reserve University, 1983. A.B. University of Wisconsin, 1930; Ph.D. Philosophy, Course areas: public policy and environmental law. Harvard University, 1936. Course area: public policy. John Cooper B.A. in Music Education, Trenton State College, Etta Mooser 1975. M.A. in Music Compsition, Trenton State B.A. Lewis and Lewis Clark College, 1966; Ed.M., College, 1981. Ph.D., Philosophy and Education, Teacher's College, Course area: music. Columbia University, 1984, 1987. Course area: ecological education. William Drury B.A. Biology, Harvard University, 1942; Ph.D. Botany Peter Owens and Geology, Harvard University, 1952. B.A. Art and Geography, Middlebury College, 1980; Course areas: ecology, botany, ornithology, natural M.A. Landscape Architecture and Planning, Conway history, and geomorphology. (MA) School of Landscape Design, 1983. Course areas: landscape design and urban planning. Marcia Dworak B.A. History, M.S. Library Science, California State John Visvader University, Fullerton, 1972, 1973; M.A. B.A. Philosophy, CUNY, 1960; Ph.D. Philosophy, Administration, Sangamon (IL) State University, 1979. University of Minnesota, 1966. Course areas: children's literature, government, and Course areas: philosophy, philosophy of science, and legal research. history of ideas. Craig Greene Mark West B.S. Biology, State University of New York at B.A. Cooper Union 1980; Graduate Studies, Syracuse, 1971; M.Sc. Plant Taxonomy, University of University of California, Santa Cruz. Alberta, 1974; Ph.D. Biology, Harvard University, Course areas: architecture and design. 1980. Course areas: botany, evolution, and plant ecology. "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, FORMER COA TRUSTEE AND FORMER U.S. COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor, ME 04609 (207) 288-5015 February 1990