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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.

Messages from President Ditzler and the Office of Campus Safety following a discrimination incident reported on Monday, October 21.

For the first time, a graphic novel was Albion’s pick for the annual Richard M. Smith Common Reading Experience—The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. Following Bui’s afternoon talk September 26 in Goodrich Chapel, Alan Headbloom, ’75, screened his documentary Newcomer Legacy, recounting the immigrant experiences of nine Vietnamese refugees who settled in Grand Rapids in the 1970s.

Mandy Dubiel, director of admission since 2015 and a part of the Albion College Office of Admission since 1996, was named Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management on October 1. In her new post, Dubiel will work closely with Vice President for Enrollment Management Hernan Bucheli on developing a new enrollment management plan to shape and recruit future Albion classes.

Albion College has been awarded a major federal grant to prevent and respond to interpersonal violence on campus. The $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides a unique opportunity for institutions of higher education to establish multidisciplinary approaches to combat sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking on campuses.

It is ambitious. It is intrepid. It is challenging. And it is the next step in Albion College’s goal of creating a liberal arts experience for students to change the world. The College is embarking on perhaps the most far-reaching comprehensive campaign in its 185-year history, and by the time it ends Albion will be remade in ways both large and small.