What are the goals of the Lives of Commitment Program?
The Lives of Commitment program has several goals: Many students come to Macalester with strong commitments to service and social justice issues: We want students to continue developing their own vision of a socially just society and to find their own ways, formally and informally, to live out their deepest commitments. Students also come to Macalester with questions about how to integrate their deepest values into their lives as students and their vision of what they would like to do after Macalester. The values could stem from ethical or religious roots, family or ethnic traditions, specific experiences, notions of identity, social movements, etc. We want to provide a safe place to explore those questions and also examples of people from the community and campus who are also trying to live out their own values. Immigrant and refugee issues have become very important in the Twin Cities. We have chosen this theme as a primary focus for the program, because students can make a significa
