A round-up of reporting for Macalester Today, the alumni magazine of Macalester College.
All Teched Out
Today’s college students have resources you never imagined–and complications you never would have predicted.
School Builder
Jim Cummings, founder of Kijana Educational Empowerment Initiative, sees schools as the path to empowerment in rural Kenya.
Change Agents
Mac alums making a difference.
Allergy Innovator
Chemist Christy Haynes, winner of a $1.5 million NIH New Innovator award, could help cure your hay fever.
A Sense of Place
Teaching college students how to make the most of the Twin Cities is a growing part of the mission at Mac.
At Home In the World
For Third Culture Kids, coming back to the States for college can be the hardest move of all.
Maestro Christopher Franklin
“Conducting is a craft that you learn by doing and watching over a lifetime,” says Christopher Franklin. “When I’m on the podium, the times that the hair has risen on the back of my neck have been when I’ve let the orchestra do what it can, just guiding it like a horse going over a jump. When you realize that, you discover that there aren’t many bad orchestras out there,” he says. “Only bad conductors.”
Homes Away From Home
Local host families help Mac’s international students find their way to Target first, then navigate American life.
Admissions Mania
Trying to get your kid into college? How not to freak…
Keeping Minnesota at Macalester
Mac alums are paying it forward with scholarship programs for talented students from Minnesota’s small towns.