News and Interviews

President Rosenberg was quoted or featured in the following articles:

• Friday Roundtable: What if community college were free? | MPR News | July 7, 2017
  Although tuition prices continue to rise throughout most of the country, there are a handful of states doing something radically different: making tuition at community colleges free. Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg was one of the Roundtable guests. Other guests included Tim Wynes, president of Inver Hills Community College, and Antoinette Flores, senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress.
• Back to School: Campus leaders rethink their role in the age of Trump | CNN Politics | April 28, 2017
  Brian C. Rosenberg, the president of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, says he typically remains quiet on controversial issues to avoid inhibiting any points of view. But this time he felt compelled to write a searing letter to the community calling the order "cowardly and cruel," and a "shameful moment in our country's history."
• What I'm Reading: ‘The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge’ | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 23, 2017
  The Chronicle of Higher Education asked President Brian Rosenberg to write a column responding to the following question: "What have you read lately that is insightful and useful to you as you think about higher education?"
• Speaking Out Where Others Wouldn't | Inside Higher Ed | February 20, 2017
  President of Trinity Washington takes on Kellyanne Conway, Trump aide who is an alumna and a donor. To Patricia McGuire, the issue isn't politics, but truth. Just how strongly presidents should speak out on Trump administration actions has been heatedly debated. There is no consensus among college presidents, but the majority are far from where McGuire is. One exception is Macalester College's president, Brian Rosenberg, who went much further than other presidents in criticizing President Trump's executive order (currently being revised after courts blocked it) barring travel to the United States for people from seven Muslim-majority nations. Rosenberg called the order "cowardly and cruel."
• My ‘Dear Betsy’ Letter | Chronicle of Higher Education | February 9, 2017
  The new secretary of education hasn’t reached out to the president of Macalester College for advice. But it could happen, he says, and he has some ideas.
• Macalester President Brian Rosenberg Calls Trump’s New Immigration Policy ‘Cowardly And Cruel’ | The Huffington Post | February 1, 2017
  President Brian Rosenberg's latest Huffington Post blog in which he calls Trump's immigration policy "cowardly and cruel."
• 'Cowardly and Cruel' | Inside Higher Ed | February 1, 2017
  Macalester president issues some of the harshest words yet from a higher ed leader on Donald Trump's immigration ban.
• Kaler: UMN ‘stands with’ its 125 students affected by Trump travel ban | Pioneer Press | January 30, 2017
  President Donald Trump’s actions on immigration last week are of “great concern” to University of Minnesota leaders, university President Eric Kaler said in a letter Sunday. In his own letter Monday, Macalester College President Brian Rosenberg called Trump’s orders “cowardly and cruel.” Rosenberg pledged counseling, housing and financial and legal help for its Muslim students and employees and for undocumented students who may be affected by a separate Trump action that broadens eligibility for deportation.
• Trump's orders have U and Macalester presidents with varying views | Star Tribune | January 30, 2017
  Macalester's president Brian Rosenberg calls Trump's actions "cowardly and cruel."
• In Defense of DACA | Inside Higher Ed | November 21, 2016
  More than 90 college and university presidents, including President Brian Rosenberg, have signed a statement calling for the continuation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children have registered with the federal government in exchange for temporary relief from the possibility of deportation and a two-year renewable work permit. President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he would end the DACA program, which was authorized by President Obama by executive action.

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