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Students award professors with recognition for Mental Health awareness

Voices on Mental Health

April 26, 2018

Earlier this semester, Voices on Mental Health sent out a survey to the student body asking for professors who were supportive or helpful with their mental illness, disability, or mental health. Below is a list of all faculty f...

Celebrated department coordinators to retire after over 20 years at Macalester

Rebecca Edwards

April 19, 2018

After more than two decades of service to the Macalester community, beloved department coordinators Jane Kollasch of economics and Toni Schrantz of religious studies and philosophy are retiring at the end of the semester. Kollasch, after 24 ...

Lack of mental health training leaves professors, students wanting more help

April 8, 2018

Two professors take unscheduled leaves

Rebecca Edwards

January 26, 2018

Media and cultural studies (MCST) professor Leola Johnson and anthropology and Latin American studies professor Olga Gonzalez have both taken unexpected leaves of absence and are not teaching their scheduled courses this semester. Johnson’s leave is ...

First names vs. titles: Professors weigh merits of college’s naming conventions

The Mac Weekly

November 17, 2017

Last spring, while on sabbatical and preparing to teach a first-year course this semester, political science professor Wendy Weber encountered an article in the New York Times’ Sunday Review. The article was written by a h...