Intersections/Perspectives
Urban Faculty Seminar
Bush/CST Project

Bush Intersections/Perspectives Program Overview

Throughout its history, Macalester has achieved academic excellence in service to internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement. While each value is powerful in it own right, our faculty are particularly attuned to the exciting synergies between these values, synergies that prompt more complex and nuanced understandings of the world and its challenges.

We propose two types of programs.

The first type will be called Intersections, and will support faculty groups such as departments, programs or academic interest groups. These groups will propose to work together for a semester or academic year to educate themselves about intersections between their disciplines and issues of race and diversity. By engaging faculty on their own academic "turf," we hope to lower the threshold of discomfort that forestalls faculty discussions of these issues.

The second type will be called Perspectives. This program will fund two types of proposals.

Pairs of Macalester faculty from different disciplines or academic perspectives who wish to team-teach or collaborate in other tangible ways in order to enhance their knowledge and skills in teaching, advising or student-engaged research.
Individual faculty who wish to connect and work with community partners, Macalester staff members or professionals at other institutions to broaden and/or deepen their conceptual knowledge beyond traditional academic boundaries. In all cases, this work will connect the study of race and ethnicity to other forms of difference (cultural, gender, religious) or to the faculty member's scholarly work

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