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Albion College senior Caitlyn-Rae Arendse gained valuable on-the-ground research experience in fall 2021 through the city’s Urban Life Center.

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Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, PA

For 99 hours over a February weekend, three Albion teams chose from six questions, created a mathematical model and wrote a paper together.

Following a pair of postponements—one due to technical issues; the other, a snowstorm—the Albion College and Albion communities came together March 1 at the Bohm Theatre.

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.”