{"id":18695,"date":"2022-07-18T16:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=18695"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:52:04","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-imagining-macalesters-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2022\/07\/volunteer-spotlight-imagining-macalesters-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight: Imagining Macalester’s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Macalester selected twenty-three Strategic Planning Champions last fall to help lead the Imagine, Macalester<\/em> planning process, the goal was to build an inclusive process that brought in as many perspectives from members of our community as possible. In every town hall, listening session, and one-on-one conversation, Champions brought the energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to engage the college\u2019s constituencies. But there\u2019s one thing they couldn\u2019t bring to their work: their own agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a charge we were given from day one,\u201d says Strategic Planning Champions chair Niloy Ray \u201999, who also serves on the college\u2019s Alumni Board. \u201cWe weren\u2019t selected to make choices on the basis of what we alone want. Instead, we really had to stand for the voices that weren\u2019t in the room. That\u2019s been the greatest appreciation that I have for my fellow Champions. Every time they channeled those voices, I was thankful, and proud of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since October, the Champions have helped lead more than thirty listening sessions, attended events, held small-group and one-on-one conversations, and reviewed survey responses and emails that have generated more than 2,500 pieces of raw data shared by Mac community members, local and global. The Champions reviewed, summarized, and discussed all of the input, then met with the college\u2019s senior leadership for a two-day retreat this spring to develop the key themes.<\/p>\n

Through all of the conversations he\u2019s had this year, Ray has a renewed appreciation for the Mac community of lifelong learners. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten a really strong sense of just how vibrant, engaged, smart, opinionated, and caring Mac people are,\u201d Ray says. \u201cFor me, the vision of what Macalester is and why people come here has just been reinforced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Strategic Planning Champions<\/h2>\n

Alumni<\/h3>\n

Barbara Phillips \u201971
\nCharnelle Etti \u201915
\nDaymond Dean \u201991
\nErin Miller \u201905
\nNiloy Ray \u201999
\nSuveer Daswani \u201918<\/p>\n

Faculty<\/h3>\n

Dennis Cao
\nDuchess Harris
\nErnesto Capello
\nSonia Mehta<\/p>\n

Parents<\/h3>\n

Meredith Harper
\nBonham P\u201924
\nRohan Preston P\u201925<\/p>\n

Staff<\/h3>\n

Gabriella Gillespie \u201917
\nJennifer Jacobsen
\nMargaret Smith
\nTamatha Perlman<\/p>\n

Students<\/h3>\n

Anna S\u00e8ne \u201924
\nBobbie Pennington \u201924
\nCarter Rutherford \u201923
\nGia Montgomery \u201924
\nRebecca Gentry \u201923
\nRola Cao \u201925
\nSami Banat \u201924<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-three Strategic Planning Champions helped lead the Imagine, Macalester<\/i> planning process and amplified Mac community voices.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":18776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","mediatype-articles"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[8],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30865,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18695\/revisions\/30865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}