The Charles Green Endowed Fund for Civic Engagement at Macalester College

Student Scholarly Activities Fund

The Charles Green Endowed Fund will support several kinds of academic activities that will benefit many Macalester students:

• Student-faculty collaboration.
The fund will support collaborative research projects designed and implemented by a student and a political science faculty member. Projects may involve conventional scholarly research or engaged scholarship that focuses on democratic theory and practice, investigates important public policy issues, explores new thinking on important social and political issues at the local, national or global level, or improves pedagogy and curricular materials. The fund will also support student attendance at conferences to present results of their projects.

• Student academic conference participation.
Professional associations and other groups sponsor several conferences at which undergraduate students may present papers or may serve as commentators or roundtable discussants. The fund will support increased participation in such conferences, thereby helping more students cultivate deliberative, critical analytical and leadership skills.

• Attendance at academic meetings.
Selected students will bene.t from attendance at regular academic meetings in the political science field.

• Honors research.
Eight to ten political science majors pursue honors projects each year. Quality of their work is high; one project recently won a national award. Small grants of $100 to $300 will enable students to pursue ambitious archival or field research strategies for their honors projects.

Green received the college’s Thomas Jefferson Award for teaching and related contributions in 1981, and he received the Teaching Excellence Award in 1997. He served as the Political Science Department chair for 10 years.