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Brian C. RosenbergBrian Rosenberg, the 16th president of Macalester College, began his tenure at the college in August 2003. Under his leadership, the Institute for Global Citizenship was inaugurated with visits by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan ‘61 and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman in the spring of 2006. Groundbreaking for the new Macalester College Athletic and Recreation Center, one of the most heavily used venues on campus, took place in the fall of 2006, and the project is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2008. New and renovated facilities for theater, music and art are also planned. He has focused as well on strengthening the connections between Macalester and the local urban community. Rosenberg is a member of Leadership Circle of the Presidents Climate Commitment and has led the college in a number of sustainability initiatives, including the hiring of a sustainability manager. Macalester is among the first colleges to seek LEED platinum certification for a new building: the home for the Institute for Global Citizenship. Rosenberg is chair of the Commission on International Initiatives of the American Council on Education and Chair of the Presidents’ Council of Project Pericles, an organization founded by Eugene Lang and devoted to education for democratic citizenship. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Paul Academy and Summit School, a coeducational, college preparatory day school for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Rosenberg is the former chair of the board of the Minnesota Private College Council, which represents 17 private liberal arts colleges in Minnesota. Rosenberg champions the liberal arts college in America. “The liberal arts model rests on a belief in the transformative power of ideas, the necessity of collaborative action for the common good, and the importance of individual self-determination.” Rosenberg has been quoted in the press on a variety of issues including the balance between access and quality of higher education, tuition costs and college rankings. Prior to becoming president, Rosenberg was the dean of the faculty and an English professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., a position he held from 1998-2003. Rosenberg began his academic career as an adjunct assistant professor of humanities at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1982. He worked at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., from 1983 to 1998 as an English professor and as chair of the English Department and participated in the development of the college's strategic plan. A Charles Dickens scholar, Rosenberg has written numerous articles on the Victorian author and other subjects as well as two books, Mary Lee Settle’s Beulah Quintet: The Price of Freedom (1991) and Little Dorrit's Shadows: Character and Contradiction in Dickens (1996). He was elected to the board of trustees of The Dickens Society in 2000. A native of New York City, Rosenberg received his B.A. from Cornell University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. He and his wife Carol, a physician, have two sons.
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