About College of the Atlantic

College of the Atlantic (COA) is a private, liberal-arts researcher in Bar Harbor upon Mount Desert Island, Maine, United States. Founded in 1969, it awards bachelors and masters (M.Phil.) degrees solely in the arena of human ecology, an interdisciplinary retrieve to learning. Focus areas include arts and design, environmental sciences, humanities, international studies, sustainable food systems, and socially liable business.

The scholarly is small, with approximately 365 students, a full-time capability of 35, and 15 part-time faculty. Tenets of the pedagogy tote up field-based or applied learning; small, seminar-style classes; student-directed projects; community involvement; and interdisciplinary learning. It was the first researcher to be carbon neuter and one of the first to divest fossil fuel holdings from its endowment. The learned appears on most of the top “green school” lists.

The campus consists of 37 acres on Frenchman Bay, two organic farms, two off-shore island research stations, and a 100-acre protected area. The farms, Beech Hill Farm and Peggy Rockefeller Farms, are living laboratories for classes and student research. Peggy Rockefeller Farms includes livestock, crops, orchards. Beech Hill Farm provides produce. Both supply the dining hall in the make public of organic produce, eggs, and meat. The off-shore island properties increase the Alice Eno Field Research Station upon Great Duck Island where students conduct studies upon Leach’s storm petrels, guillemots, gulls, sparrows and other fields of natural history. The Edward McCormick Blair Research station on Mount Desert Rock is a center for the examination of marine mammals and oceanographic issues.

Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 5,235. Bar Harbor is a popular tourist destination in the Down East region of Maine and house to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory, and MDI Biological Laboratory (Salisbury Cove village). Until a catastrophic blaze in 1947, the town was a noted summer colony for the wealthy. Bar Harbor is house to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point within twenty-five miles (40 km) of the coastline of the Eastern United States. The town is served by the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport, which provides year-round direct flights to Boston, Massachusetts.