Washington County Community College
WCCC is recognized as one of the top 150 community colleges in the United States for its commitment to student success and educational excellence . The college currently enrolls approximately 450 students in its Certificate , Diploma , and Associate Degree programs in 20 major areas of study . They also offer a liberal studies program where students can earn the first two years toward a baccalaureate degree .
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
One and two-week studio workshops as well as the twoweek , Open Studio Residency program , exhibitions , tours , auctions , artist presentations , and shorter workshops for Maine residents and high school students . Workshops include a variety of fields - science , literature , music , and the visual arts . Haystack publishes annual monographs and organizes a variety of conferences and symposia that examine craft in broader contexts . The award-winning campus was designed by noted American architect , Edward Larrabee Barnes . The series of modest structures perched on a granite ledge overlooking the Atlantic Ocean are built in a vernacular style with local materials and interconnected by a series of walkways that encouraged community while seeming to float above the forest floor .
College of the Atlantic
The 38-acre main campus is located on the ocean in Bar Harbor ; off-campus facilities include two organic farms , and two offshore island research stations . Founded in 1969 , COA was the first college in the U . S . to focus on the relationship between humans and the environment . College of the Atlantic provides a distinctive educational philosophy , human ecology , which integrates knowledge from all academic disciplines and from personal experience to investigate and improve the relationships between human beings and our social and natural communities .
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