Dickinson Viewbook 2019

“PIETATE ET DOCTRINA TUTA LIBERTAS.” —Founder Benjamin Rush. Revolutionary since 1783.

Dickinson doesn’t do things like every other small liberal-arts college. We don’t try to be everything to everyone.

We know who we are and who we’re not.

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OUR IDENTITY

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SOME SAY A LIBERAL-ARTS EDUCATION IS NOT ‘USEFUL.’ But surely creating new forms of wealth and employment, constantly developing a more just political system, curing disease, learning better stewardship of the earth, creating new forms of art and music, educating a new generation, learning more about the peoples of the world, discovering new scientific principles, advancing technology— surely these things are all useful.

DICKINSON PRESIDENT MARGEE ENSIGN

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OUR IDENTITY

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With

Dickinson doesn’t limit majors your choices.

Africana Studies

Educational Studies

Italian

Pre-Health

American Studies

Engineering (3-2)

Italian Studies

Pre-Law

Anthropology

English

Japanese

Psychology

Arabic

Environmental Science

Judaic Studies

Public Speaking

Archaeology

Environmental Studies

Latin

Quantitative Economics

Army ROTC

Film & Media Studies First-Year Seminars

Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies

Religion

Art & Art History Astronomy

Food Studies (certificate)

Law (3-3)

French and Francophone Studies

Law & Policy

Science, Technology & Culture

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Mathematics

Biology

German

Medieval & Early Modern Studies

Business (International Business Global Mosaics & Management) Global Preparedness (Army ROTC certificate) Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (certificate) Graduate School Agreements Chemistry

Middle East Studies Military Science Modern Greek

Russian Security Studies (certificate) Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship (certificate) Sociology Spanish Sustainability Theatre Arts

Greek

Music

Health Studies (certificate)

Neuroscience

Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Hebrew

Philosophy

Writing Program

History

Physical Education

Humanities

Physics

Interdisciplinary Studies

Political Science

Earth Sciences

International Business & Management

Portuguese

East Asian Studies

International Studies

Economics

Internships

Pre-Business Management

Chinese Classical Studies Community Studies Computer Science Creative Writing Dance & Music

Note: Majors in bold

Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Pre-Engineering

MAJOR NEWS: QUANTITATIVE ECONOMICS Beginning in fall 2018, Dickinson is offering a new academic major: quantitative economics, which applies mathematical concepts, models and theories to economic issues. This specialized field is great for students seeking careers in economics, consulting or data analysis—or anyone who wants to go on to graduate school in any of those or connected areas. Learn more: dickinson.edu/economics 5

Did you notice that Latin phrase on the cover? It’s what you see here on the college seal, and it translates to “Freedom is made safe through character and learning.”

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FOR SUSTAINABILITY No. 1 Overall Top Performer among baccalaureate institutions in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s “Sustainable Campus Index 2018”

VOLUNTEER HOURS served by 2,954 members of the Dickinson community (students, faculty, staff) in 2017-18

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NO. Long-term STUDY ABROAD

IN THE NATION

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OUR IDENTITY

When you’re considering a college, it’s important to know what that college stands for. What it’s known for. What it excels at. For us, it’s a collegewide and lifelong commitment to global education, sustainability and civic engagement.

(Open Doors Report, Institute of International Education)

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PEACE CORPS TOP COLLEGE in the small schools category (2016)

These priorities are so central to our mission, they each have a dedicated center on campus: Center for Sustainability Education

Center for Global Study & Engagement

Center for Civic Learning & Action

Center for Advising, Internships & Lifelong Career Development

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OUR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS

Dickinson doesn’t expect students to have their future planned out in the first semester.

Our academic program is designed to ensure that students explore a variety of areas to establish critical thinking and communication skills and engage in hands-on, active learning.

9:1

student-faculty ratio 9

Dickinson doesn’t leave you hanging.

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∞

through the Center for Advising, Internships & Lifelong Career Development

95%

90%

MORE THAN

YEARS OF SUPPORT

of the class of 2018 participated in an

INTERNSHIP, service-learning or research EXPERIENCE

PAGEALUMNI OUR TITLE SUCCESS

4+

of Dickinsonians are EMPLOYED, accepted into a GRADUATE PROGRAM or involved in VOLUNTEER SERVICE one year after graduation

TOP 10 Fulbright-producing

LIBERAL-ARTS COLLEGE

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members of the class of 2018 earned FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS 11

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OUR COMMUNITY

Dickinson doesn’t sit in the middle of nowhere.

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Our founder, Benjamin Rush, was a revolutionary thinker in a lot of ways, and we are forever grateful that he wanted his college to be connected to a town.

He knew even back in 1783 that this would matter. That being connected to the community, being within walking distance of the town square, the courthouse, shops, businesses and schools, was important for the education of students.

NATIONWIDE 2016

STRONGEST TOWN CONTEST WINNER

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ranked in top

in the U.S. for WALKING and BIKING

DON’T OVERLOOK THE DINING HALL

Dickinson’s ranked

No. 14 nationally in the 2018 College Consensus list of

TOP 25 BEST COLLEGE DINING HALLS

Harrisburg-Carlisle region ranked fifth in MOST LIVABLE CITIES –Forbes

2016

Best College Towns in America –Niche

Carlisle is a picturesque college town in striking distance of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. (each two hours away) and New York City (three hours). In other words, to get away from it all for four years of college, you don’t have to live in the middle of nowhere.

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OUR COMMUNITY

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TOP 3 THINGS WE u ABOUT CARLISLE

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Oodles of restaurants within walking distance of campus!

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Free community events like the Ice Art Fest and Harvest of the Arts.

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Great hiking, biking, fishing, boating, skiing, go-karting, mini golfing, shopping—everything!

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OUR COMMUNITY

After my first year at Dickinson, I saw that I could make an impact.

My professors and friends encouraged me to be myself, and I translated that into ‘I can do any project I want, and I’ll be fine.

This school is like a testing ground for my ideas!’

ANASTASIA PUTRI ’16 (ANTHROPOLOGY, THEATRE ARTS), PROGRAM ASSOCIATE WITH THE UNITED STATES-INDONESIA SOCIETY

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OUR ALUMNI IDENTITYSUCCESS

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Dickinson doesn’t outsource study abroad.

Our students are truly immersed in the culture and encouraged to speak the language, intern in the host city and live as natives rather than tourists. We maintain our own long-established centers run by Dickinson faculty to make the study-abroad experience truly integrated with the home campus.

And we have 20+ partner programs in 24 countries on every inhabited continent on the planet! The world is our classroom.

Photo of New Zealand by Jamey Harman ’18

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OUR GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES

Studying abroad can be such a transformative experience, since it allows for cross-cultural exchange and exposure to new global perspectives.

JANEL PINEDA ’18 (ENGLISH, CREATIVE WRITING), who conducted an independent study in El Salvador, participated in a Mosaic in Brazil, studied literature in Chile and spent her junior year at Oxford University through Dickinson’s partnership with the highly selective Mansfield College Visiting Student Programme. In 2018, she became the first Dickinsonian since 1974 to earn a MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP, regarded as one of the most competitive and highly selective scholarship programs in the nation (48 recipients were chosen from more than 1,000 applicants).

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ENGLAND: Oxford

ENGLAND: Norwich (Humanities | Math & Science)

KOREA: Seoul

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global programs, established and entirely maintained

by Dickinson.

ITALY: Bologna

GERMANY: Bremen

CAMEROON: Yaoundé

U.S.: New York City

OUR GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES

RUSSIA: Moscow

SPAIN: Mรกlaga

AUSTRALIA: Brisbane

FRANCE: Toulouse

CHINA: Yunnan and Beijing

SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina and Ecuador

JAPAN: Nagoya

Dickinson also partners with 22 OTHER STUDY-ABROAD PROGRAMS IN 24 COUNTRIES on every inhabited continent on Earth.

Dickinson isn’t green all the time.

In the fall, we’re all about oranges and yellows! We look great in wintry white. Oh and spring with the pinks?

Forget about it! Dickinson wears all four seasons well.

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OUR CAMPUS

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LEED-Gold certified buildings and the only LEED-Platinum residence in Pennsylvania

Received a GOLD

OUR SUSTAINABLE LEADERSHIP

Dickinson integrates sustainability into its academics, facilities, operations and campus culture and has received continual recognition from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Sierra Club, Sustainable Endowments Institute, Princeton Review and Second Nature. Dickinson is also a member of the EcoLeague, which offers semester-exchange options with other top “green” colleges located in diverse geographic regions across the country.

Bicycle Friendly

University designation from the

LEAGUE OF AMERICAN BICYCLISTS (2018)

One of only 25 schools in the nation to consistently receive a

99 GREEN RATING in the PRINCETON REVIEW GREEN HONOR ROLL

180-ACRE COLLEGE FARM (with 60 acres managed, annually producing more than 100,000 pounds of

USDA-certified organic produce)

Sierra magazine

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ranks Dickinson the

COOLEST SCHOOL

for sustainability efforts

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I wasn’t born to be a chemist. The fact that Dickinson encouraged me to get involved with many different things, to sample many different topics, was important, because I didn’t know what I wanted to do.

ONE OF THE WORLD’S FOREMOST EXPERTS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY, CHAD MIRKIN ’86 (CHEMISTRY), DIRECTOR OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY, WINNER OF THE PRESTIGIOUS DAN DAVID PRIZE IN THE FUTURE TIME DIMENSION

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OUR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS

Dickinson professors don’t just teach.

They research, inspire, advise, create, mentor, challenge, innovate.

They turn ideas into action. And they bring students in on that action, as research partners, co-creators, co-authors, collaborators.

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Dickinsonians aren’t confined to the classroom.

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Greek organizations

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student media outlets like The Dickinsonian newspaper and WDCV radio

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dining options on campus, including The Juice Box and The Quarry cafe.

120+

clubs and intramural sports

Sampling of student-run clubs & organizations: Mermaid Players, Junkyard Turkeys Ultimate Frisbee, Student Senate, Dirigible Plums (Quidditch), Black Student Union, Gaming Club, Dog House, Spectrum, Student Investment Group, The Idea Fund 30

Dance Theatre Group

Color Run 5K

Mini golf at Carlisle Sports Emporium

Arts Collective Juried Show

Kayaking on the nearby Conodoguinet Creek

Steve Aoki concert, sponsored by MOB

Impromptu jam session on Morgan Field

OUR STUDENT LIFE

Red Devil Sports Network (RDSN)

Dickinson doesn’t leave anything on the field.

Dickinson’s athletics mascot wasn’t adopted until the 1930s when a journalist who reported on a hotly contested football game dubbed the red-and-white-wearing Dickinson athletes as “red devils” for their spirited play. The name caught on and quickly became official.

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OUR STUDENT LIFE

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60

All-Centennial Conference athletes in 2017-18

225+

All-America student-athletes

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NCAA Division III varsity sports

In the class of 2018,

57%

of student-athletes studied abroad

Baseball M & W Basketball M & W Cross Country Field Hockey Football M & W Golf M & W Lacrosse M & W Soccer Softball M & W Squash M & W Swimming M & W Tennis M & W Indoor Track and Field M & W Outdoor Track and Field Volleyball 34

OUR STUDENT LIFE

I definitely am a good product of the liberal arts, and it’s served me incredibly well. The liberal arts … engaged my curiosity, and I do think people who are successful in business have a natural curiosity—they question things, they want to understand how things work, why things have been decided or why things have happened the way they’ve happened. Dickinson prepared me for that really well.

STEVE SMITH ’92 (FINE ARTS AND PHYSICS); RED DEVIL BASKETBALL PLAYER; PRESIDENT AND CEO OF L.L.BEAN (pictured at right in his custom boots, crafted for his 2018 Commencement address)

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OUR ALUMNI SUCCESS

TOP 3 CAMPUS ICONS 1.

Legend has it that, if you step on the bronze seal embedded on Britton Plaza, you won’t graduate!

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The doors to Old West open only twice a year—once for new students to sign in during convocation, and once for them to exit during Commencement.

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The mermaid that sits atop Old West is actually a mistake. The building’s architect, Benjamin Latrobe (who also designed the U.S. Capitol), ordered a likeness of Triton, the fish-tailed mythological god of the sea.

The local coppersmith crafted the only fish-tailed human with which he was familiar—a mermaid. The original mermaid is on display in Dickinson’s library.

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TOP 4 WAYS OUR STUDENTS AND FACULTY CONNECT

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In the classroom (obviously)—our small classes and discussion-based approach mean your professor will know your name, and what sport you play, club you’re in, etc.

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Office hours and an open-door policy

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Interaction spaces, where students and faculty can connect, study and work together

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Over meals, whether in the dining hall, a restaurant downtown or a professor’s home

OUR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS

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average class size:

The Michael L. Britton Memorial Observatory consists of a 24-inch Ritchey-ChrÊtien telescope with an Apogee AP7 512 x 512 charge-coupled device camera, which is equipped with UBVRI filters and is used for imaging and multicolor photometry of variable stars and asteroids. In other words, it’s a state-of-the-art telescope utilized by students and faculty for research and the occasional stargazing party.

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Senior studio-art majors (like Duanduan Hsieh, pictured here) get their own studio spaces in Goodyear where they can create the pieces they will show in their capstone exhibition.

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OUR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS

The Goodyear Art Building at Dickinson is a remarkable facility—not only does it contain well-equipped studios for working in wood, metals, ceramics, digital processes, photography, painting and drawing, but it also houses student and faculty studios. By having these studios in the same space, students and faculty often share the building’s resources at the same time, so the creative investigation that occurs in Goodyear is communal, uniquely transparent and a shared experience—both deliberately and through a kind of creative osmosis.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF STUDIO ART ANTHONY CERVINO

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Dickinson doesn’t make you wait.

Research and fieldwork opportunities are available as early as your first year.

Participants in the 2018 Arctic and Alpine Climate Changes Research Experience in Iceland. Photo by Karuna Sah ’19.

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OUR ACADEMIC ENDEAVORS

90%

More than

of the class of 2018 participated in an internship, service-learning or research experience.

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Photos by Ryan Greenberg, Danny Hammoudi ’17, Chris Knight, Zoë Josephina Moon ’20, Lily Mott ’18, Joe O’Neill, Christian Payne, Heather Shelley, Sarah Sheriff, Sean Simmers, Carl Socolow ’77 and other members of the Dickinson community.

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WHAT DICKINSONIANS CAN DO Start a company. crisis.

START A DEBATE.

WRITE A NOVEL.

Remain rational during a

Write a business plan.

WRITE A SPEECH

FOR A HEAD OF STATE. Negotiate a raise. CHANGE A TIRE. Change

a fuse.

CHANGE MINDS.

COMPOSITION. Perform TIE A SQUARE KNOT.

Perform CPR.

PERFORM AN ORIGINAL

a magic trick. FACE A FEAR. Apologize.

Ask for directions in a foreign language.

ASK FOR HELP.

Give directions. GIVE A SPEECH. Give a toast. GIVE

A HAND. Plant

a seed. GROW A GARDEN INTO A FARM. Hit a note.

FIND THEIR OWN VOICE. Find common ground. AGREE. Disagree.

LEAD.

Follow.

COOPERATE.

Mediate.

MEDITATE.

Take time to

reflect. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. Take initiative. BE A GOOD EXAMPLE. Be held accountable. HOLD ON TO THEIR VALUES. Make fuel from food.

MAKE PEACE.

Catch and clean a fish.

CLEAN A STREAM.

Fail without being defeated. WIN WITHOUT BRAGGING. Bandage a wound. BUILD A HOUSE. Build bridges.

BUILD A TEAM.

Build a

better wine bottle. BUILD A BETTER WORLD. Strive not for perfection, but for excellence— IN ALL THAT WE DO DURING THE COURSE OF OUR DAILY LIVES. 45

2,346

full-time students representing 39 states and territories plus the District of Columbia and 44 foreign countries

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20+

special-interest housing options, including Arts Collective, Dog House, Outdoor Education House, ROTC, Social Justice, Spectrum and Treehouse

72%

of students received meritor need-based aid and $52.8 million in grants awarded in 2017-18

YOUR CHOICE

Dickinson doesn’t fit into a tidy box.

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1783 charter year

9:1

student-faculty ratio

TOP 10 Fulbright-producing liberal-arts college

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-acre campus adjacent to downtown Carlisle

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languages offered