About His Work
During his 30-year career at Macalester College, Professor Karl
Egge has brought enormous energy, dedication and commitment to his
work as teacher, scholar, mentor and advisor. With his focus on
. nance and entrepreneurship and his great interest in helping students
succeed both at Macalester and after their graduation, he has enriched
the lives of countless students within and outside the classroom.
Graduate after graduate can testify that he has helped students
reach their academic potential, offered career advice and counseling,
prepared them for graduate study and for the business world, and
worked the phones to help them obtain challenging and fulfilling
positions upon graduation. In spring 2000 Karl received the college’s
Thomas Jefferson Award for lifetime teaching, research and service
contributions to the college. He holds the F.R. Bigelow Professorship
in Economics.
Teacher, Mentor, Guide
Funds generated by the endowment will enable Macalester to engage
an accomplished leader in business and finance chosen for the ability
to serve as teacher, mentor and guide to students interested in
those fields. Specifically, the Karl Egge Professor will do the
following:
• Develop and teach courses reflecting his
or her unique expertise within business and
finance.
• Provide career counseling, advice and
networking to currently enrolled economics
students as well as those who have graduated.
• Sustain the active linkage between Macalester and its Economics
Department and the business world, especially through Macalester’s
alumni.
The Karl Egge Professor will serve the
college through a renewable contract. Each
contract period will be up to five years in
length. Overseeing the program will be an
advisory council representing both academic
and business expertise and chaired by the chair of the Economics
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As part of Macalester's Faculty Talks podcast series, Egge shared his experiences graduating from the University of Montana in 1965, how he became a professor, memories from his career and some advice for Macalester’s Class of 2006. listen»
For more than 30 years, Karl Egge has anchored the business segment
of the Economics Department’s curriculum, teaching well enrolled
classes in capital markets and finance. His scholarship has advanced
a fuller understandng of factors that contribute to success and
failure among business.
Having led the effort to
establish the study of
entrepreneurship as a
field of academic inquiry, he has taught the course using innovative
approaches
and made it his distinctive stamp on the curriculum.
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