Macalester College News

Not many students tell their parents they're going to Harvard to study dystopian worlds run by a race of machines.

The Center for School Change , founded and run by Joe Nathan, will move to Macalester College on Jan.

Gregory Ferrey made headlines in the late 1960s when a midair mechanical failure forced him to crash-land his helicopter on athletic fields at Macalester College in St.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, when it's oh so easy to begin to look a lot like Santa Claus.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.

When Susan J. Berkson and Kristine M. Holmgren, both former, liberal op-ed contributors to the Star Tribune, read Michael J. Bonafield's Thursday MinnPost interview with conservative Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten, something snapped.

SARTELL - Dale Gasser, superintendent of the Sartell-St. Stephen school district, has announced plans to retire at the end of his contract on June 30, 2010.

Twenty years ago, the Iron Curtain fell and the Mongolian Kazakhs were free to migrate once again.

Liz Weaver, a law student at the University of Texas, is trying to decide whether to enroll in a program in London, which would saddle her with even more college debt.

IMAGES Main American publisher and philanthropist born Nov. 12, 1889, St. Paul, Minn., U.S. died March 30, 1981, Mount Kisco, N.Y. American publisher and philanthropist who, with his wife, Lila Bell Acheson , created and published Reader's Digest , one of the most widely circulated magazines in the world.

N ever before have college campuses in the United States and in Minnesota been so international, a report released today shows.

An American singer-songwriter will celebrate the life of Charles Darwin with a performance at Macalester College in St.

How old do you have to be to really get Beethoven ... or Brahms ... or Robert Schumann? It's a topic of debate among classical music lovers and educators.

West Genesee alum Dan Graham and his wife, Rachel Graham both recently earned doctorates from the University of California.

In her new memoir, "Lit," Mary Karr turns a poet's eye to adulthood, alcoholism and her conversion to Catholicism.

It takes manpower and money to run an e-mail system, and colleges and universities have less of both these days.

Carleton College is Minnesota's best private college value, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.

Modern parenthood is fraught with complexity, sacrifice, and relentless scrutiny, and working mothers take the brunt of it.

In the Field... 11.04.2009 Reigniting Black Feminist Power Review by Christine E. Hutchins Duchess Harris, Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College, opens her important new book, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton, with a problem.

It takes manpower and money to run an e-mail system, and colleges and universities have less of both these days.