For Immediate Release

Contact: Barbara K. Laskin or Doug Stone
September 1, 2004
(651) 696-6203

Robert Putnam to Speak at Opening Convo Sept. 7

Robert D. Putnam, author and Harvard professor, will speak on "Community Engagement in a Changing America," at Opening Convocation at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, in the Alexander Hill Ballroom of Kagin Commons.

Putnam wrote Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community and Better Together: Restoring the American Community. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. Raised in a small town in the Midwest, he was educated at Swarthmore, Oxford and Yale. He has served as dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and is past president of the American Political Science Association.

Macalester is a private, 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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