Teagan Johnson, Eli Offman, Hannah Sheridan, Alexei Thomas This project investigates Carleton’s OCS programming, dating back to the ’90s. Specifically, how the school tends to underrepresent STEM interested students with relevant study abroad opportunities. Our project uses data collected from the OCS office, the Carleton Archives, and the Colleges’ website to help build an in-depth […]
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OCS Program Project
Big Question: Does Carleton fail to uphold the institution’s professed goals of education by failing to provide STEM majors with diverse off-campus opportunities? Palladio: Below is the code for the Palladio presentation. It is a plain text file, but once downloaded, it should be converted to a JSON file. After converting it to a JSON […]
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Personal Work on Final Project
So far, our group has found archives that contain off-campus study data. I’ve looked through lots of online and paper documents that contain data about off-campus studies. After looking through the data and finding the most relevant data, I entered it into our spreadsheet. We will be continuing to enter data into the spreadsheet over […]
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Progress Update: OCS Mapping
Progress So far, we have narrowed down our areas of focus, started our data collection, and contacted Archives in the library to find more historical information about past OCS programs. We have been working with Nat Wilson in the archives who has compiled information on OCS programs for us. These documents are unprocessed and only […]
The group for this project is Teagan Johnson, Alexei Thomas, Hannah Sheridan and Eli Offman. For this project, we intend to compare Carleton College’s Off-Campus Study offerings over the years. Carleton publishes statistics about the percentage of the graduating class that went on OCS, recurring programs, popular locations for specific courses, relation to popularity in […]
