F1RST is the official publication of Carroll University. The magazine puts a fresh spin on stories about campus life, updates on alumni and in-depth features connecting the accomplishments of Carroll alumni, faculty and staff to today's headlines. Comments and ideas about the publication can be made to editor@carrollu.edu.
Our winter issue features stories of resilience, innovation and progress. Tour the renovated Education Hall and meet the interim dean of the new School of Education and Human Services. Read about the resourceful approaches taken by the arts and athletics programs at Carroll to adapt to COVID-19. And find out how Carroll successfully navigated a turbulent year for higher education in a special 2019-20 Annual Report. Download The Issue
A new school, a rebuilt home and a new dean: for the education program and Carroll’s strategic plan, it was a perfect storm
We are all sick and tired as we bid 2020 farewell, and I cannot imagine what 2021 will look like. I don’t have the wisdom to see what a path toward peace, reconciliation and justice might hold. Nevertheless, I am confident about two things.
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As the world was engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, students, faculty and staff scattered to the safety of their homes—changing everything, except for our Pioneer mindset. Meet Carroll's furriest friends as they graduate to their forever homes, and disover how historians find and interpret the stories of the past.
Join a professor and student as they search for new tools in the battle against killer bacteria in the Michael and Mary Jaharis Science Laboratories, learn about the path biology major Benyapa Khowpinitchai took to Carroll and the artful balance she discoverd here, and remember the legacy of service that the late P.E. MacAllister ’40 leaves behind.
Graduate students share why they chose to continue their studies at Carroll, learn about a unique program that pairs teaching students with middle schoolers and explore the newly-renovated "Bergs" and Charles Street Hall