News and Interviews

President Rosenberg was quoted or featured in the following articles:

• How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus | Politico | September 10, 2017
  A POLITICO review shows that the criteria used in the U.S. News rankings — a measure so closely followed in the academic world that some colleges have built them into strategic plans — create incentives for schools to favor wealthier students over less wealthy applicants. President Brian Rosenberg was interviewed and quoted.
• How are higher ed leaders responding to DACA's end? | Education Dive | September 6, 2017
  The Trump administration said it will phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, for people brought to the United States illegally as children. The turn of events has educators across the spectrum wondering how the decision could affect students and the role of leaders in serving them. Macalester President Brian Rosenberg was interviewed and quoted.
• Education leaders consider: When should we speak up about divisive issues? | Christian Science Monitor | August 30, 2017
  On Aug. 14, Macalester President Brian Rosenberg joined in a chorus of college presidents across the United States denouncing the racially charged events in Charlottesville, Va.
• It’s not liberals on campus crushing Republican ideas. It’s conservatives. | Washington Post | July 26, 2017
  "If conservatism extols the virtues of family and religion, how does one understand the tolerance of—indeed, if polling is accurate, the still overwhelming support for—a person whose obvious moral failings would lead to his being fired from every job except the one he holds?" Amid ongoing national debate about politics, ideology and free speech on campus, President Brian Rosenberg writes about the real issue at hand.
• 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."

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