It’s a mild, sunny day as April Nugent picks her way across a field at College of the Atlantic Peggy Rockefeller Farms, eyes peeled for hidden cow patties in the knee-high grass.

College of the Atlantic is pleased to welcome Palak Taneja as a new faculty member in literature and writing.

Jonathan Henderson turns on his Zoom camera, unmutes his microphone, and gives a thumbs up.

“We’re standing at a crossroads,” is how our new distinguished trustee Joyce Cacho, PhD described why she joined the board of trustees for the College of the Atlantic.