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Joanne (Joey) Miller, ’75, has been appointed the new Chair of the Albion College Board of Trustees. She succeeds Michael J. Harrington, ’85, who stepped down recently after a nearly two-year term as chair and a decade on the Board.

The College’s new leader for community living and student conduct says the residential experience “should be one that’s transformative and accessible to everybody.”

Nine college students—from seven countries and five continents, with dozens of cultural practices, food preferences, idiosyncrasies and opinions—sharing a house. It could be the premise of a reality TV show full of conflict. But at Albion College, it’s the Global Intentional Living Community (Global ILC), where the residents celebrate their differences as a personal, day-to-day experience.

Leslie Spicer Williams, the creator and moderator of the Wildcat Wisdom Series, says she was inspired to pursue the project because “I was born and raised in Albion, and felt that my success was based on my upbringing and having a community that had my back.”

Dr. Milkessa Gemechu’s recent articles in Foreign Policy and Al Jazeera detail his personal experiences with the conflict in Ethiopia.

The Marilyn Crandell Schleg Archivist and Special Collections Librarian is the new director of FURSCA, one of Albion’s signature programs.

The ‘go-to’ resource is used in religious studies courses and classrooms at colleges and universities around the world.

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