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March 21, 2006
Macalester Receives $500,000 Grant from Lilly Endowment
St. Paul, Minn. – Macalester College has received a $500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
of Indianapolis to sustain efforts begun through an earlier grant and enhance the growth of the newly created Institute for Global Citizenship.
The new grant, “Serving Ethical Commitments in the New Global Commons: A Proposal to Sustain Key Elements of The Lilly Project in Ethics, Values and Vocation at Macalester College,” will enable the Lilly Project’s most successful programs to be integrated within Macalester’s emerging Institute for Global Citizenship.
The earlier grant, “Theological Exploration of Vocation” awarded in 2000, strengthened Macalester’s capacity to “produce liberally educated leaders who are attuned to their moral, ethical and religious motivations as they decide their vocational paths.”
“It is gratifying that Lilly Endowment endorsed our plan to continue this important work under the auspices of the Institute for Global Citizenship,” said Macalester President Brian C. Rosenberg. “We understand inquiry into spiritual and ethical commitments, both one's own and those of others, to be essential to global citizenship. By sustaining these strong programs, we help to insure that such commitments continue to be respected and embodied in the lives of Macalester students.”
Specifically, the grant will allow the continuation of the Lives of Commitment program for
first-year students, summer research and internship experiences, pre-seminary visits for prospective religious leaders and professionals guided by theological and ethical convictions, a senior leadership conference, curricular innovation, faculty/staff professional development and making the spiritual and ethical commitments of Macalester’s students more visible. Inclusion of Lilly-initiated activities within the Institute will also enhance and accelerate fund-raising to insure that these programs continue past the grant period.
“Lilly Endowment's continued generosity and remarkable support for Macalester students' exploration of work as it connects with leadership in the global commons is stunning,” said Macalester’s Chaplain Lucy Forster-Smith. “This additional grant will carry forward Macalester's dedication to cultivating a new generation of religious and civic leaders for the complex global realities of our time.”
Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,845 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, diversity and civic engagement.
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