![Students conducting interviews as part of the Rondo history project.](https://www.macalester.edu/life-at-mac/wp-content/uploads/sites/192/2019/12/civic-engagement-hero-960x0-c-default.jpg)
Civic Engagement
It starts here
Making a difference starts in the Twin Cities. At Macalester, the Community Engagement Center is a hub dedicated to connecting students, faculty, and community partners who collaborate on community-based scholarship and service for a more just and sustainable community.
192
community partners located within 5 miles of campus
90%
of 2019 graduates participated in some type of community engagement during their time at Macalester
61
Courses taught by 45 professors spanning 22 academic departments have a community engagement component
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![Students looking at Downtown Minneapolis from an observation deck.](https://www.macalester.edu/life-at-mac/wp-content/uploads/sites/192/2019/12/civic-engagement-city.jpg)
The power of proximity
Macalester’s long-standing community partners and local alums offer students numerous opportunities to participate in the local community through community-based learning experiences and reciprocal relationships. Students apply what they learn in the classroom to make a positive impact on our community.
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![Macalester student interviewing a Rondo resident.](https://www.macalester.edu/life-at-mac/wp-content/uploads/sites/192/2020/01/RememberingRondo.jpg)
Remembering Rondo
History department faculty and students joined with Rondo Avenue, Inc., for a neighborhood “History Harvest Celebration” to create a digital archive of artifacts from Rondo, St. Paul’s historically African American neighborhood that was divided by interstate highway construction in the 1960s.