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.
After last year’s cancellation as the pandemic took hold, Albion College’s annual celebration of student research, scholarship and creative activity returns April 22 with more than 85 students presenting online.
The 500-year-old artifact was given to the College as a gift in 2003. It will join what experts have concluded is its twin in a museum in the Chiapas region following a formal repatriation ceremony April 13 in Goodrich Chapel.
Albion College, one of the top 50 innovative liberal arts colleges in the country, announced today the launch of their new Integrated Well-being Program, which focuses on expanding free access to wellness services, building a campus that supports mental and physical well-being, and forging additional community health partnerships. Albion College President Dr. Mathew Johnson made the announcement.
Funding will support an innovative approach to experiential learning at the Albion College Community Collaborative, where students will build and operate a full-scale consulting firm—to be located in a renovated 207 S. Superior St. (left) this fall—serving clients and partners from local, regional and national nonprofits to small businesses and government agencies.
An offering of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, the rigorous sequence of courses within a broader liberal arts framework—with degree pathways available to all students—will strongly position Albion data science graduates in a robust career marketplace.
