diversity Archives - The Mac Weekly

Diversity in student journalism: Why you should join TMW

February 20, 2020

Diversity in the syllabus: professors challenge mainstream academia

January 30, 2020

Trustees approve new stadium turf, grant tenure to three

February 1, 2018

Macalester’s Board of Trustees reconvened from Jan. 24-25, participating in a two-hour long diversity training, approving the installation of new turf at Macalester Stadium, and granting tenure to three faculty members. The new turf ...

The Limits of the White Institution

The Mac Weekly

January 26, 2018

By Henry Aoki [email protected] The Nov. 16 walk-in, like most Macalester protests, was burdened by a cloak of fatigue. Cynicism echoed around the campus — emerging, even, in the walk-in’s speakers. What was the point of it al...

Macalester community seeks to broaden campus political culture

Abe Asher

October 20, 2017

When Jeff Garcia ’14 arrived at Macalester as a first-year in the fall of 2010, he was unimpressed with the political culture he found. “Coming in as a lower middle class, working class guy from New York, it was definitel...

Students at the China booth. Photo courtesy of Christina Cai ’20.

Engaging diversity in the Twin Cities with International KidsFest

March 3, 2017

Macalester partners with QuestBridge to improve college access

November 4, 2016

Starting in the 2017–2018 school year, Macalester will join its Minnesota peer Carleton and 36 other colleges and universities around the country as a partner with the QuestBridge program. This decision, recently solidified du...

Data collected from a Mac Weekly survey and the Fall 2015 Institutional Research report. Graphic by Rowena Foo ’16.

Disparities between student and legislative bodies

March 25, 2016

Strategic Plan proposes measures to improve campus diversity

October 31, 2014

In a Strategic Plan that focuses largely on innovation, the diversity section is one section attempting to refocus Macalester’s practices. As the Strategic Planning Committee considered the current state of Macalester, they de...

The above graphic summarizes specific tactics and more general goals that Macalester will be focusing on for the next ten years. The plan addresses the quality of student experiences as well as institutional practices.

Strategic Plan released, focus includes diversity and entrepreneurship

September 19, 2014

STRIVE: Concerned students revise “Diversity” section of Strategic Planning Document

September 19, 2014

We as students at Macalester College are troubled by this year’s diversity section of the Strategic Plan (please see: page 18-19 of the 2014 Strategic Plan). What are the implications of having only 5 tactics for increasing di...

25 placards went into the air Tuesday night as MCSG unanimously passed a resolution calling on the school to commit to hiring more faculty members of color. Over 100 supporters packed the Weyerhaeuser Boardroom Tuesday night to express support for the bill. Photo courtesy of Emma Pulido ’16.

MCSG passes resolution on faculty diversity

March 14, 2014