The joint tenure-track appointment of Dr. Jeana E. Morrison continues Albion’s focus on innovating the liberal arts college experience of today and tomorrow.
A truly perfect spring day set the stage for Albion’s 2021 Commencement and 2020 in-person Commencement, both held on May 8. Some 350 members, with their families, attended the 2021 Commencement while later more than 50 members of the Class of 2020 represented the nearly 300 students who earned their degrees during the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Albion College professor of history Wesley Arden Dick recounts a 2017 dinner conversation aboard an Amtrak train with Chloé Zhao, and how he and his wife, Leslie, were inspired by the filmmaker’s best director Oscar acceptance speech during the April 25 Academy Awards.
The new leadership position brings together the former offices of Campus Programs and Organizations and Intercultural Affairs. “The message I keep repeating to students is that they have a voice,” says Mathis, who started in the role earlier this month.
Professor emeritus of English James Wyatt Cook passed away April 2, 2021. He once described his 38-year tenure at Albion College as his dream job of reading, writing and talking about books. Indeed, his love of literature and advocacy for students across nearly four decades at Albion continues to carry a deep impact today.
