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 for which at least one student felt their actions towards mental health, disability, and/or mental illness were…
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Celebrated department coordinators to retire after over 20 years at Macalester
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 years at Macalester and 22 years as economics department coordinator, has worked as an event planner, administrator, basketball…
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Lack of mental health training leaves professors, students wanting more help
Despite their role on the front lines of student life, Macalester professors are often unequipped to do the work of identifying and helping students struggling with their mental health. In the current mental health climate, that unpreparedness is having serious consequences.
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Two professors take unscheduled leaves
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 health-related. She was slated to teach two sections of the introductory MCST course “Texts and Power”, as well as…
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First names vs. titles: Professors weigh merits of college’s naming conventions
“There’s not one right answer, which is why I think as a debate it was so rich,”
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Voices on Mental Health present: Fall 2015 Professor Awards for Mental Health and Disability
Brian Lozenski — Educational Studies “He specifically mentioned mental health and stress resources on his syllabus, and supported the idea of his class being a place to work through challenging ideas in a safe space. He was also very approachable.” Vittorio Addona — Mathematics “I took epidemiology with Victor, and I had lots of anxiety…
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Mental health and disability: Professors who support us
At times we have struggled. At times we have faltered and at times we have thrived. We have navigated how to exist in this academic space as students, while living with the realities of our mental health and/or disabilities. We have also been touched by the support of professors who have used their role to…
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Anita Bendickson on prana and self-honesty
This week, The Mac Weekly sat down with physical education instructor Anita Bendickson to discuss lifelong learning, inner awareness and ahimsa. TMW: What do you teach at Macalester? AB: Through the P.E. department, I teach the karate, yoga and self-defense classes. I originally started teaching here in the early 80s. At that time, I just…
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French lecture on refugee crisis
On Wednesday afternoon, Anne-Emmanuelle Deysine, a professor at France’s Paris Ouest Nanterre University, gave a lecture entitled “Immigration issues in France and the European Union.” She gave students an overview of the situation and talked about the lack of political will in the E.U. and France to address this influx. “I’m not very proud of…
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Prof Talk: Meet Margot Higgins, the Environmental Studies department’s newest professor!
Meet the newest addition to the Environmental Studies department! Professor Higgins is teaching two courses in the environmental studies department this semester, Cycling the Urban Landscape and Americans and Global Parks and Wilderness. The Mac Weekly sat down with her to talk courses, biking in Minnesota winter and more! Is this your first time in…