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Giving Tuesday, a worldwide event to help nonprofit organizations, was held December 3 and a record 330 donors gave more than $150,000 to Albion College, the second-highest total in the seven years the College has taken part. “It was a great number,” said Ryan Robinet, director of philanthropy–strategic fundraising initiatives. “Their gifts will make a difference in the future of Albion College and liberal arts education.”

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Longtime trustee William K. “Bill” Stoffer, ’74, passed away December 2 in Albion. Said friend Linda Kolmodin, “In his heart, he loved Albion College and the community and saw them as intertwined for both to be the best they could be.”

After a distinguished career in higher education spanning more than four decades, Dr. Mauri A. Ditzler has informed the Board of Trustees he plans to retire from his role as President of Albion College at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. During a town hall meeting with students, faculty, staff and community leaders, Ditzler shared the news he will step back from day-to-day leadership of the liberal arts college in June 2020, transitioning into a new role where he will lead a number of special projects for up to the next two years. The Board of Trustees announced it has engaged a national firm to lead a search for the 17th president of Albion College.

Steve Klein, Albion College’s former vice president for enrollment management, died November 29 after a long illness. When Klein’s longtime friend Mauri Ditzler accepted the presidency of Albion College in 2014, one of his major priorities was to bolster admissions. And Ditzler knew just the person to help him accomplish that goal. “I turned to the best admissions counselor I had ever met,” he said.

According to a report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, the return on investment of an Albion College degree grows dramatically over the years.

Albion College German professor Perry Myers left investment banking for education and loves his job teaching college students. But he’s giving it up—temporarily—to spend a year in Paris, thanks to a prestigious research fellowship to the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris for the 2020-21 academic year.

Albion College has been named one of 10 “incredible” liberal arts colleges on the rise, according to College Gazette, an online higher education website. Albion is the only college in Michigan on the list. The institutions on the list also all appear on the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges 2020 in the national liberal arts colleges category.

A November 10, 1:32 p.m. ET, email from President Mauri Ditzler to the Albion College community.

The annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA) attracts 5,000 scientists from around the globe, but Albion College’s presence is not lost there. At this year’s GSA meeting, held in September in Phoenix, Alex Horman, ’20, became the fourth Albion student in 10 years to win Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation at the conference.

The largest gift in the history of Albion College has a goal equally as large—providing students of greatest need with every opportunity possible to successfully navigate, and thrive, in the demanding and turbulent waters that are the college experience. Impressed by Albion’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, Sarah Cutler (known to most as Sally), ’75, and her husband, Alexander (better known as Sandy), have given a landmark $8 million gift to create the Sarah S. and Alexander M. Cutler Center for Student Success and Academic Achievement to help smooth the path toward graduation for underrepresented, first-generation and other students in need.