Tuesday, December 03, 2019
After a distinguished career in higher education spanning more than four decades, Dr. Mauri A. Ditzler has informed the Board of Trustees he plans to retire from his role as President of Albion College at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. During a town hall meeting with students, faculty, staff and community leaders, Ditzler shared the news he will step back from day-to-day leadership of the liberal arts college in June 2020, transitioning into a new role where he will lead a number of special projects for up to the next two years. The Board of Trustees announced it has engaged a national firm to lead a search for the 17th president of Albion College.
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Monday, December 02, 2019
Steve Klein, Albion College’s former vice president for enrollment management, died November 29 after a long illness. When Klein’s longtime friend Mauri Ditzler accepted the presidency of Albion College in 2014, one of his major priorities was to bolster admissions. And Ditzler knew just the person to help him accomplish that goal. "I turned to the best admissions counselor I had ever met," he said.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019
According to a report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, the return on investment of an Albion College degree grows dramatically over the years.
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Monday, November 25, 2019
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.
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Friday, November 22, 2019
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.
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Sunday, November 10, 2019
A November 10, 1:32 p.m. ET, email from President Mauri Ditzler to the Albion College community.
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