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May 16 Friday
Library open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
10:00 AM
Senior Art Exhibition
10:00 AM
- 4:00 PM
Gallery, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
11:30 AM
All-College Picnic
11:30 AM
- 1:15 PM
Bateman Plaza, Campus Center
11:45 AM
Ceremonial Ground Breaking for Institute for Global Citizenship Building
In front of Winton Health Services Building
President Brian Rosenberg cordially invites all faculty, staff, students and alumni to the Ceremonial Ground Breaking for the new Institute for Global Citizenship building. An all-college picnic follows the ceremony.
View renderings and floor plans for the new building
1:00 PM
Phi Beta Kappa Induction
Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel
2:30 PM
Honors Convocation
Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons
5:00 PM
Senior Week Reception - Library Student Employees Graduating Seniors
5:00 PM
- 6:30 PM
Harmon Room, DeWitt Wallace Library
Library will be open for graduating seniors and their families only. No library services between 5:00 and 6:30 p.m.
8:00 PM
Macalester Seniors Performance Recital
Concert Hall, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
Admission is free.
May 17 Saturday
Baccalaureate and Commencement
Library open 11:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
9:00 AM
Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games
9:00 AM
- 5:00 PM
Dakota County Fairgrounds, 4008 220th Street West, Farmington, Minn.
Macalester students, families and alumni are invited to attend the Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games featuring a caber toss, homemade shortbread and scones, bagpipe bands, highland crafts, highland dance, and men in kilts. Great fun for kids of all ages. Stop by the Macalester Alumni Association tent in the Highland Clans section to meet up with other Mac-ites of all generations. Plan to join us in the Parade of Celts behind the Macalester banner at midday. General admission tickets $15; seniors (65+) $10; children (6 – 15) $5; children (5 & under) no charge. Go ye Scotties go! Email Libby Snelson '78 for more information about Macalester activities at the fair.
More at mnscottishfair.org
Directions to fair grounds
9:30 AM
Baccalaureate Service
Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel
Baccalaureate is an interfaith worship service.
The Baccalaureate provides a time for the graduates and
their families to reflect on the deeper meaning of their
Macalester experience and prepare for Commencement
and beyond.
1:30 PM
Commencement
On the Lawn
Peter Berg ’84, the Hollywood director, writer, producer and actor will be the keynote speaker at Macalester College’s 119th Commencement on the lawn outside Old Main. Receiving an honorary degree at Commencement will be retiring Philosophy Professor Henry West, who has taught at the college for 40 years.
Zachary Devlin-Foltz ’08, an economics and political science major from Silver Spring, Maryland, will be the senior class speaker.
Commencement ceremonies will include an academic procession led by the Macalester Pipe Band, flag bearers representing the 47 countries of the 66 graduating international seniors plus the U.S. and U.N. flags, faculty in academic robes and the 453 seniors. more information about Commencement activities
May 18 Sunday
Library Closed
May 19 Monday
Library open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 20 Tuesday
Library open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 21 Wednesday
Library open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
May 22 Thursday
Library open 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
May 23 Friday
Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i)
Library open 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
May 24 Saturday
Library closed
May 25 Sunday
Library closed
May 26 Monday
Memorial Day
College offices closed.
Library closed
May 27 Tuesday
Library closed
May 28 Wednesday
Library closed
May 29 Thursday
Ascension of the Bahá-u'lláh (Baha'i)
Library open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Harmon Room reserved 11 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. for events
8:00 AM
Visual Literacy: Tools for Teaching and Learning with Images
8:00 AM
- 4:30 PM
NITLE Workshop - This workshop provides an interdisciplinary survey of visual resources for education with a focus on open-access solutions for teaching. Participants will learn how to acquire and manage digital images and graphics with tools such as Flickr and ARTstor, and will consider related issues such as the visual learning style and copyright. Each participant will leave with a rich set of visual resources, new technology skills, and peer support within the NITLE network. For more information please contact Terri Fishel.
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