How Adele designed her major @collegeoftheatlantic

Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Adele Wise '21 details how she explored and integrated multiple interests to organically create her own educational path at College of the Atlantic.

COA is a leader in trans-disciplinary, experiential learning. Every COA student designs their own major in human ecology—which integrates knowledge from across academic disciplines and seeks to understand and improve the relationships between humans and their natural, built, and social environments—and sets their own path toward a degree. Learn more at coa.edu.

$The Fourth Estate Journalist Kara Swisher, editor-at-large of New York Magazine, host of On with Kara Swisher and producer and co-host of the Pivot podcast joins CEO of The Atlantic Nicholas Thompson at the 2026 College of the Atlantic Summer Institute to reflect on how journalism and media are evolving in an era defined by digital platforms, fractured audiences, and the rise of artificial intelligence. The College of the Atlantic Summer Institute is a week-long convening of ideas that welcomes experts from around the world to share their perspectives on the most pressing issues of our time. The 2026 Summer Institute: Toward a More Perfect Union marks the country’s 250th anniversary with a forward-looking series of conversations about the future of the American experiment. The institute convenes voices from across American culture—journalism, the arts, science, philanthropy, civic life, and beyond—to explore how the nation’s founding values have been, and continue to be, tested, reshaped, and reimagined. coa.edu$

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