Grant Funded Projects

Community-Based Research Courses at Macalester

Recently Macalester was awarded a Learn and Serve America Grant from the Bonner Foundation. This grant helps students and faculty members partner with a community non-profit organization to research various issues.

Courses that received funding for community-based research projects include

Introduction to Urban Studies
Faculty: George Latimer
Fall 2006

This course examined how cities are shaped by history, geography and economics. Lectures were drawn from the disciplines of history, geography, sociology, economics and education.

Students met with ethnic and community based organizations to learn how diverse cultures and values come together and sometimes collide on the common ground on the urban landscape. The students in this course evaluated the Bridges Project, West Side Flats, St. Paul.