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Micro-Campus to Bloom in Mount Desert

College of the Atlantic is joining with community revitalization group Mount Desert 365 to bring a new, mixed use development to downtown Northeast Harbor. The COA Mount Desert Center will comprise an environmentally sustainable, three-story structure at 141 Main Street, with year-round apartments for student and faculty housing and street-level retail space.
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Campus reopening includes COVID-19 testing

College of the Atlantic partners with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard for coronavirus PCR testing as part of a broader plan to safely reopen the COA campus for Fall term 2020.
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November 3 — what’s at stake?

Former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton and bestselling author and social entrepreneur Wes Moore bookend the fourth annual College of the Atlantic Champlain Institute, which turns the spotlight on issues leading up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.
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Our commitment to Black Lives Matter

College of the Atlantic is committed to envisioning, articulating, and enacting a human ecology that is affirmatively anti-racist, that does not tolerate any form of discrimination or racism, and that lifts up Black voices and the voices of other historically under-represented and marginalized groups.

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Maine colleges wrestle with how to reopen in the fall as coronavirus ravages budgets [Maine Public]

The spread of COVID-19 forced colleges across the country to close their campuses this spring. Now, many, including College of the Atlantic, are looking at whether to open back up this fall or consider alternative strategies, and their choices could have a major financial impact.
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New “mountain” makes perfect classroom [Mount Desert Islander]

Mount Desert Island’s volcanic history may well be in the past, but a new mountain just popped up last summer on the COA campus. The accidental result of building construction, the “mountain” quickly became a favorite spot on campus, both as a classroom and recreation area.
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Institutions of sustainable learning: Which U.S. colleges are greenest? [The Environmental Magazine]

College of the Atlantic tops the Greenest College List for the third year running due to focus on sustainability throughout academic offerings, campus policies, initiatives, activities, and career preparation for students.
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Climate emergency call-in [WERU]

Maine Climate Council youth representative Ania Wright ’21 and College of the Atlantic Community Energy Center program manager Laura Berry ’17 join other young climate activists to discuss the wave of climate emergency declarations in Maine towns and cities and how they helped launch the Bar Harbor Climate Emergency Task Force.