Trustees, administrators lend ear as students voice concerns
by Matt Day in News
Macalester's Board of Trustees took the next step in its efforts to improve transparency and increase accessibility to students Tuesday evening as six Board members, President Brian Rosenberg, and Dean of Students Jim Hoppe chatted with about 80 students during a casual dinner.
by Emily Smith in News
Kenyan scholar and novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o visited Macalester's campus Wednesday afternoon. He is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine.
About 35 students have signed a petition supporting the creation of a major in applied math and statistics
by Matthew Stone in News
As momentum builds in favor of the Mathematics and Computer Science department's proposal to offer a third major, the normally private process of deliberating the proposal for a new major is becoming a subject commanding wide student interest on campus.
Since the faculty's Educational Policy and Governance Committee first rejected the department's proposal to offer an Applied Mathematics and Statistics major, interested students have weighed in to show their support for the new offering.
by Colleen Good in News
President Brian Rosenberg has suspended the search for a new Dean of Academic Programs following Provost Diane Michelfelder's decision to step down at the close of the school year.
The suspension of the search will allow Michelfelder's replacement, once selected, to have a say in the Academic Programs hire.
by Catherine Reagan in News
In accordance with the mission of the Iraq Moratorium, which is to break routine daily activity in recognition of the war, roughly 200 Macalester students, faculty and staff walked out of class at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 16 to participate in a day of workshops and discussion.
by Peter Wright in News
With only a few weeks left in the fall semester, the Financial Affairs Commission is about to release the final spring budgets for Macalester student organizations.
Each organization drafted a budget and submitted it by Nov. 12 to the FAC, which determines the groups' final budgets.
by Tressa Versteeg in News
The Macalester-Groveland Community Council and transportation committee held a public hearing Nov. 26 at St. Thomas University to discuss the plan to construct a pedestrian median on Snelling Avenue. A board of MGCC members, transportation committee members and Macalester-Groveland grid representatives sought input from a full auditorium of community members regarding the possibility of the median.
by Anna Waugh in News
As the final destination for much of St. Paul's recycling, including virtually all of the recycling coming out of the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood, the St. Paul Rock-Tenn plant occupies a considerable position in the area. Deprived of its longtime power source of steam, Rock-Tenn is scrambling to find an alternative source of power as it meets opposition from community members who fear negative health effects from the emissions caused by its current choice.
by Matthew Stone in News
Correction appended. Professors should not yet count on taking sabbaticals more often than they're used to. The Board of Trustees must first sign off on the plan that the faculty endorsed earlier this month. The faculty voted at its Nov. 14 meeting in favor of a proposal that would compress the sabbatical cycle and allow professors to take sabbaticals every four years.
EPAG to begin replacement search
by Colleen Good in News
Jan Serie will step down from her position as director of the Center for Scholarship and Teaching after this academic year. The Educational Policy and Governance Committee will begin a search for a replacement sometime next semester, according to EPAG chair and Pschology professor Kendrick Brown.
by Zac Farber in News
The campus center lecture hall will be closed starting Monday while water damage caused by fall rains and spring snowmelt is fixed. The John B. Davis Lecture Hall will reopen Feb. 5, according to the Nov. 16 Bulletin.
When water melts, it is absorbed into the ground-the highest part of the ground that is saturated with water is called the water table.
by Hattie Stahl in News
Ahmed Samatar, dean of the Institute for Global Citizenship, appeared on PBS' "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" Monday night. Accompanied by Stephen Morrison, director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Samatar answered questions on the crisis in Somalia and the response of the international community.
by Alex Park in News
Last year, Thomas Friedman came to Kagin Commons, for a cost reportedly in the tens of thousands of dollars, essentially to read the inside jacket of his new book and sell copies of it afterwards. Like a motivational speaker encouraging us to get in on the globalization craze, he dropped anecdotes of tea in Lebanon and "ordinary people" in India already benefiting from his line of wisdom.
by Alex Park in News
Grinnell College
As a movement on campus to extend the existing need-blind admissions policy to international students continues to gather support at Grinnell, an initially narrow beam of criticism has expanded to focus on the college's entire process of recruiting and admitting international students.
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