In an effort to bring the dead back to history, Albion’s 10th biennial trip to Poland, capping the College’s Holocaust Studies Service-Learning Project, is a chance for students to uncover and restore graves of Holocaust victims as well as learn about Polish Jewry in an experience many students have called unforgettable.
One of the May 4 Commencement speakers, Barbara Weiskittel, ’83, was born and raised in Albion and the city and College have remained important to her since. Indeed, over the years she has made significant gifts to Albion’s Big Read, Build Albion Fellows, the restoration of downtown Albion and more. “I want the school and the community together to grow and thrive,” she says.
From teaching in South Korea to analyzing energy policy in Boston, “the education I got here helped me get to where I wanted to go,” said Kimball in remarks April 22 during the English Department’s annual Charles Crupi Memorial Poetry Celebration.
The aspiring physician assistant and member of the Albion College men’s golf team is using his semester off campus to learn directly from healthcare providers in a clinical setting. “My internship mostly consists of shadowing PAs,” Kapke says of his experience in the Methodist Hospital emergency department, “but I am also doing some small projects for the volunteer office at the hospital.”
With an eye toward the future and a nod to the past, Albion College has established two new majors that will put a fresh spin on traditional subjects. Integrated marketing communication will be added in the Department of Communication Studies, while marketing management will be available in the Department of Economics and Management.
Her voice recently resonated through Goodrich Chapel during her junior recital, and this summer it will resonate in Europe—in particular, Austria. Ikpemesi Ogundare, ’20, was accepted to the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies, or AIMS Graz, located in Graz, Austria. It is a world-renowned program designed to prepare individuals for a career as a music professional.
From Albion College Campus Safety–Last night (Sunday, April 14) the students who reported the discrimination incidents on Friday, April 5 reported again finding that racist and vulgar language had been written on the whiteboard located on their room door in Wesley Hall. Campus Safety investigated the incident and was able to identify the person responsible as an Albion College student. The student is no longer on campus.
Campus Safety is continuing to investigate whether this latest incident is related to the previous incidents that were reported on April 5. Albion Public Safety is also aware of this latest incident and is continuing their investigation as well. Anyone with information about any of these incidents is encouraged to contact Campus Safety (517-629-1234 or [email protected]), and/or the Albion Department of Public Safety (911 from a cell phone).
Two prominent almuni—Albion native and pharmaceutical exeuctive Barbara Weiskittel, ’83, and recently retired Britons football coach Craig Rundle, ’74—will speak to the Class of 2019 at Albion College Commencement. The event will be held Saturday, May 4, beginning at 1 p.m. (processional at 12:45 p.m.) on the Quadrangle in front of Kresge Gymnasium.
This fall, after an absence of almost 10 years, computer science returns to Albion College as a major. Citing a new campus environment and growing enrollment, officials saw this an ideal opportubnity to bring it back. “In today’s world, it’s an integral part of education.” said Provost Marc Roy. (Pictured left to right: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science faculty members Buket Aydas and David Reimann.)
As a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Yale University international law professor Harold Koh spoke to Albion students about the importance of the rule of law, fighting for what you believe in, and understanding just how America remains on the world stage. “I want students to stand for something,” he said.
