4/15/2025 4:30PM
Kofi Annan IGC Annual Spring Celebration and Global Citizenship Student Awards
Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship
Purpose and Priorities
To animate Macalester’s commitment to critical global engagement*, Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship weaves together the work of the Dean’s Office, Community Engagement Center, and Center for Study Away, with three interconnected priorities:
Co-create interdisciplinary knowledge about the local/global nexus
Infuse diverse, embodied ways of knowing** in place-based action and reflection; and
Foster communities, partnerships, and belonging without othering
*Critical global engagement is a theoretical and practical framework that acknowledges local/global interconnections, invites reflection on power structures and positionalities, and engages across intersectional differences to impact social change.
**Embodied ways of knowing is a growing body of transdisciplinary knowledge that challenges the body/mind binaries and emphasizes learning rooted in community-based, lived experience.
Vision and Value
KAIGC aspires to be a collaborative space where the Macalester community reimagines and works towards a world where all beings relate to each other in ways that are just, equitable, and compassionate.
Approach
To move towards such a vision, we bridge campus and global/local communities, braid scholarship and social change, weave curriculum and co-curriculum. We recognize historical and ongoing structural inequalities and power asymmetries as we co-create spaces of mutuality, agency, and transformation.
KAIGC Departments
KAIGC Hours
- Monday – Thursday 8 AM – 5 PM
- Friday 8 AM – 4 PM
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