Lecture: Building Rural Minnesota’s Future and the Role of STEM Education

Tomson 280

Faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to a talk with Eric Jolly where he will discuss how STEM shows up in rural areas broadly, and how it has been a force for Minnesota’s rural communities in particular—bringing in both data and stories. He will then provide a high-level overview of the 2025 National […]

Lecture: Civic Engagement as a Liberal Art

Tomson 280

Richard Guarasci, president emeritus of Wagner College, and Grant Cornwell, president emeritus of Rollins College, will explore in conversation how higher education in general and colleges in specific are anchor institutions in American democracy.  Civic engagement is both an educational imperative and an ethical imperative, where colleges need to be engaged with the communities that […]

Post-Board Town Hall

Tomson 280

St. Olaf faculty and staff are welcome to join the Post-Board Town Hall, an opportunity to review developments discussed at the most recent Board Meeting. The Post-Board Town Hall will be held in Tomson Hall 280 on October 23 from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

“The Great Abdication: How American Democracy Died” Lecture

Tomson 280
Hybrid Event

Steven Levitsky is the David Rockerfeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard and author of How Democracies Die and Tyranny of the Minority. Levitsky’s work draws on evidence from democracies around the world to evaluate the state of American […]

Post-Board Town Hall

Tomson 280

St. Olaf faculty and staff are welcome to join the Post-Board Town Hall, an opportunity to review developments discussed at the most recent Board Meeting. The Post-Board Town Hall will be held in Tomson Hall 280 on February 19 from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.