The Institute for Multicultural Connections: A Teacher of Color Development Program for High School and College Students

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Introduction Planting Seeds for Future Teachers of Color

The Institute for Multicultural Connections is a grant-funded program supported byThe St. Paul Companies, a highlyrespected multinational Fortune 500 insurance group, and cooperatively sponsored by the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership and the St. Olaf College Education Department. Drawing on a pool of applicants who come mostly from urban high schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Institute for Multicultural Connections (IMC) brings students of color to the campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, for an intensive three-day summer residential workshop designed to introduce these students to the career …