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Macalaster College

Macalester College
Macalester College seal
Motto Natura et Revelatio Coeli Gemini (Latin)
Motto in English
Nature and Revelation are twin sisters of heaven
Type Private liberal arts college
Established 1874
Affiliation Presbyterian
Endowment $700.2 million (2016)
President Brian Rosenberg, PhD
Provost Karine Moe
Dean DeMethra LaSha Bradley
Academic staff
216
Undergraduates 2,073
Location Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Campus Urban (residential),
53 acres (21 ha)
Colors Blue and Orange          
Athletics Division III
Nickname Mac
Sports Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Mascot The Scots
Website macalester.edu
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University rankings
National
Forbes 68
Liberal arts colleges
U.S. News & World Report 23
Washington Monthly 59
Old Main, Macalester College
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Old Main
Location 1600 Grand Ave.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Architect William H. Willcox
Architectural style Romanesque Revival
NRHP Reference # 77000765
Added to NRHP August 16, 1977

Coordinates: 44°56′21.07″N 93°10′4.70″W / 44.9391861°N 93.1679722°W / 44.9391861; -93.1679722 Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, US. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,978 students in the fall of 2013 from 50 U.S. states and 90 countries. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked Macalester as tied for the 23rd best liberal arts college in the United States, 6th for undergraduate teaching at a national liberal arts college, and 19th for best value at a national liberal arts college.

Macalester College was founded in 1874 by Rev. Dr. Edward Duffield Neill, who served as a chaplain in the Civil War and held positions in three U.S. presidential administrations. After journeying to the Minnesota Territory in 1849 to do missionary work, he founded two churches and served as the state’s first superintendent of public education and first chancellor of the University of Minnesota. He planned a college that would be Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian, making it inclusive by the standards of his day.

Charles Macalester, a prominent businessman and philanthropist from Philadelphia, made the establishing gift by donating the Winslow House, a noted summer hotel in Minneapolis. With additional funding from the Presbyterian Church and from the new College’s trustees, Macalester opened in 1885 with five professors, six freshmen, and 52 preparatory students.


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