Gerald R Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service

Cameron Voss ’20, chose Albion in order to participate in the Holocaust Studies Service-Learning Project, which for her was a “life changing” week of service restoring a Jewish cemetery in Poland.

Linda Johnson Rice, former Chairman of Ebony and Jet magazines, will speak at the Albion’s MLK Convocation and Community Celebration, January 22.

Danielle Beard ’17 will discuss how to get involved at the local level

Story focuses on how state plans to retain, attract educated and talented young people

That was certainly the case when President Gerald R. Ford signed his name at Albion College, Oct. 3, 1977 and established the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership and Public Policy in Service.

Sammi Ahnen and 10 other Albion College students have never committed a crime, but they all spent 15 weeks behind imposing brick walls lined with razor wire at the Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson.

“U.S. foreign policy is stronger if it can represent the voices and the interests of all Americans,” says Dr. Carrie Booth Walling, professor of political science and faculty director of the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service at Albion College.

Conversation and presentation topics will emphasize that human rights are transnational, extending beyond borders.