College of the Atlantic
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 College of the Atlantic facts

• It awards bachelors and masters (M
• Phil
• ) degrees solely in the field of human ecology, an interdisciplinary approach to learning
• Focus areas include arts and design, environmental sciences, humanities, international studies, sustainable food systems, and socially responsible business
• The college is small, with approximately 364 students and a full-time faculty of 35, and 15 part-time faculty
• Tenets of the pedagogy include field-based or applied learning; small, seminar-style classes; student-directed projects; community involvement; and interdisciplinary learning
• It was the first college to be carbon neutral and one of the first to divest fossil fuel holdings from its endowment
• The college 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