Digital scholarship helps colleges build a more diverse curriculum Written for Macalester Today, Summer 2021 In today’s Germany, nearly one in four German residents is an immigrant, a foreign-born population that rivals that of the United States. Germany...
Infodesigner Arlene Birt ‘02, inspires action by humanizing hard data Written for MCAD’s CUT/PASTE, Spring 2023 The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a sobering report this spring, compiling the available knowledge about...
The artist known as HOTTEA, ‘07, looks for new ways to build on the beauty of impermanence Since graduating from MCAD with a degree in graphic design, HOTTEA (a.k.a. Eric Rieger, ‘07) has built an impressive body of work designed to disintegrate. Whether it’s...
Macalester covers fewer than a dozen city blocks—but how big is its carbon footprint? Ten years ago, a team of senior seminar students set out to find what it takes to keep the college fueled for a year, adding up the carbon cost of classroom heating and lighting,...
Minnesota often leads the country in voter engagement — a trend that’s playing out at many of the state’s private colleges, too. At the age of 20, Ben Menke, a political science and statistics major from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has yet to cast his first...
Whether colleges and universities can count on international students to keep coming to the U.S. in the wake of COVID-19 and other complications is a question that could change the economics and culture of American higher education for years to come. By Laura...
