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Ivory Tower is the undergraduate student literary and art magazine at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Each year, Ivory Tower publishes the work of registered University of Minnesota students. It offers undergraduates the opportunity to work on all aspects of publishing a literary magazine, as well as the chance to be active in local literary communities. The magazine is run by students enrolled in the two-semester series ENGL 3711 Literary Magazine Production Lab I (Fall) and ENGL 3712 Literary Magazine Production Lab II (Spring) through the English department. Students handle everything from securing funding to reviewing submissions to designing the website to contracting with a printer to produce the final product.
Ivory Tower gives the best undergraduate writers and visual artists at the U of M a chance to publish their work. Submissions are blind and collected at the end of fall semester. Everyone who submitted is contacted at the beginning of spring semester as to whether work has been accepted, conditionally accepted, or denied. The hard copy of the magazine can be picked up in late April across campus.
Ivory Tower has been in existence, with various blips in publication, switches in sponsor, and changes of name, since the late 1940s. Alumni of Ivory Tower include former editor Garrison Keillor, former associate editor Patricia Hampl, and former poetry editor Peter Stitt. Staff members of Ivory Tower continue to advance into careers in publishing, editing, and writing.
Service learning classes inspired this English major to teach in Senegal
"With service learning classes, you're not just participating in the campus environment: You're a figure outside in the community. After awhile you realize that you're making an impact...You're connecting with different people: and having all these different relationships really changes your future."
Lyncy Y.
