In 2007, Albion College received a Hewlett Packard Teaching with Technology grant to incorporate teaching into the classroom. The technology chosen was Tablet PC, a pen enabled device much like a laptop where you can write on the screen. Putting the technology in the hands of students in chemistry and physics classes has allowed faculty to engage and interact with students in a totally different way.
Through research funded by a Pathways to Learning grant from the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Guy Cox and Kyle Shanton of the education department are not only documenting how faculty use the technology as a teaching tool, but also examining how students become competent and confident scientists using the technology to learn course content and change class participation.
The Academic Success Course (ASC) at Albion College has been awarded one of two 2009 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Awards. Noel-Levitz, the industry leading firm in higher education consulting, created the Retention Excellence Award program to identify and recognize the most successful, state of the art retention programs in the United States and Canada. The award winners were announced at the national Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing and Retention, July 21-23 in San Antonio, Texas.
Among the distinctive aspects of the Carl A. Gerstacker
Liberal Arts Institute for Professional Management is how the students are
assisted in turning their professional ambitions into reality. Gerstacker
students stayed on campus in May and June to work on their resume writing,
interviewing skills, and business etiquette. Caryn Miller, '11, who completed
an internship with O Magazine during the spring semester, introduces you to the
Gerstacker summer program in this video.
Institutional Advancement Announces New Appointments
Albion College has announced the appointment of Suzanne VanWassenhove as the assistant vice president for annual giving and alumni engagement and Libby Crabb as the assistant director of annual giving, effective August 3.
Charlotte "Edie" Isaac, the wife of longtime Albion College faculty member Elkin "Ike" Isaac, passed away July 3. Edie graduated with a Registered Nurse diploma from Philadelphia General Hospital in 1937, and after enlisting and serving as a first lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps from 1942-45, she served as the director of student health services at Albion.
Obama advisor, Martin Nesbitt, ’85, gave the
2009 William K. Stoffer Lecture at the Opening Convocation, Sept. 1. View Mr. Nesbitt's lecture on demand at Albion.edu/StofferLecture.
