Consortial Connections
Imagining America
The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.
Macalester has been an institutional member of IA since 2001, with participation coordinated primarily through the Community Engagement Center:
Project Pericles
Project Pericles is a consortium of colleges and universities that promotes civic engagement within higher education. Project Pericles is at the forefront of civic engagement and social responsibility in areas including faculty and course development, curricular coherence, and research into best practices.
Macalester was one of the original four campuses invited to join Project Pericles as a founding member.
Macalester Periclean Faculty Leadership Grantees
- Margaret (Molly) Olsen, Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
- Michael Zis, Political Science Senior Instructor
- Teresa Mesa, Spanish & Portuguese Senior Lecturer
- Joëlle Vitiello, Professor of French and Francophone Studies
- Myrl Beam, Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Roopali Phadke, Professor of Environmental Studies
- Coming soon! Dan Trudeau and Joanna Inglot
Debating for Democracy (D4D)
Debating for Democracy (D4D) allows students acquire the knowledge and skills they need to advance their issues and to get their messages across to elected officials, fellow students, community groups, and the media. For additional information about Periclean initiatives including Debating for Democracy (D4D) and the Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program, please contact Project Pericles Program Director, Ruth Janisch, [email protected].
Campus Compact
Campus Compact is a coalition of colleges and universities committed to fulfilling the public purposes of higher education. Macalester is involved in the following initiatives through the work of professional staff and students:
- Newman Fellowship
- Engaged Scholars Initiative
- Communities of Practice
- Presidential Leadership Awards
Seed Coalition
Seed Coalition works to strengthen democratic engagement at peer institutions in Iowa and Minnesota. Formerly known as the Minnesota & Iowa Campus Compact, the collective underwent a years-long restructure away from Campus Compact, launching the new name and brand in the fall of 2023.