{"id":506,"date":"2019-08-18T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions-2019\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=506"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:23:07","slug":"jace-riggin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/facultystaff\/jace-riggin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jace Riggin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Why I chose Admissions and Financial Aid<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>My passion for admissions and college affordability comes from a love of the Liberal Arts education and a commitment to educational access. It is incredibly rewarding to help students navigate the college search and application process. I am proud to be a member of the Macalester community and the work done to ensure access and affordability for our students.<\/p>\n<p><b>Community Involvement<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Before joining the Macalester community, I served as an Admission Counselor at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, MN where I also served as an Inclusive Recruitment Coordinator. I serve in a variety of capacities in different spaces in higher education via an advisory board for a college access non-profit in Illinois, committees within the MN Association for College Admission Counseling, and on my alma mater&#8217;s Alumni Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p><b>Favorite time of the year at Mac<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love winter! The snow, activities, and warm drinks all make campus feel extra cozy and welcoming. Campus and Saint Paul are beautiful following a snow storm and everything is freshly plowed and swept away. Get a good pair of boots and you will enjoy our winters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Love about the Twin Cities<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>The Twin Cities have diverse neighborhoods, nationally ranked bike infrastructure, green spaces you can lose yourself in, award winning food, so much theatre, and a whole lot of art that make the metro area a special place to live. I have a deep appreciation for the Twin Cities and have loved calling MN home.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":781,"template":"","class_list":["post-506","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23911,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/506\/revisions\/23911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/admissions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}