Statistics

During the 2023-24 academic year, 24 Macalester departments offered 72 courses with civic engagement components. Above, students in Prof. Jake Nagasawa’s course “Not Your Model Minority: Japanese Americans from Incarceration to Redress and Beyond” visited Fort Snelling in March of 2024 to explore the “Many Voices, Many Stories” exhibit focusing on Japanese Americans who were recruited during WWII to join the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, often while their families were incarcerated in concentration camps throughout the US.

The percentage of students who engaged in community-based learning, volunteering, or applied research during academic year 2023-24 is 67%. Typically, 90% of students engage in these activities throughout their time at Mac. In 2024, Macalester earned All In to Vote’s “Highly Established Action Plan Seal” for our democratic engagement plan Mobilize Mac, recognized as among the best in the country for promoting civic learning, political engagement, and student voter participation. Additionally, in the 2016 and 2018 elections, the Macalester voting rate matched the high point of the overall range across all 1,100+ participating NSLVE institutions.