Friday, February 12, 2021
It’s one of those “who would have thought?” encounters: Brandon Fisher, ’21 (left), and Tom Jurasek, ’08, first worked together in Albion's Harrington Elementary School Mentoring program, when Jurasek was a volunteer from the Albion College men’s basketball team and Fisher was in second grade. That relationship didn’t last (Fisher only vaguely remembers it), but nonetheless come June the two will work together again, as Fisher joins Jurasek and five other Albion alumni on the team at Jackson-based accounting firm Willis & Jurasek.
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Tuesday, February 09, 2021
English professor Mary Collar passed away in Jackson earlier this month, at the age of 73. Collar had just begun her final semester in the classroom, with plans to retire at the end of the current semester
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Tuesday, February 09, 2021
In an effort to assist students as they pursue their interest in medical careers, the Lisa and James Wilson Institute for Medicine is offering a unique post-baccalaureate certificate in pre-medical studies to students who have received their bachelor's degree. “I hope it helps establish Albion as a leader in pre-medical education,” said Institute director Dr. Brad Rabquer.
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Monday, February 01, 2021
Percussion has always been a part of his life, even as a kid, and when asked what he wanted to do for a living, he said he wanted to teach percussion in college. Now, after a successful eight-year stint doing just that, and more, at Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, Dr. Anthony King comes to Albion College as the new athletic band director.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
A long and diverse career that has included involvement in everything from fundraising to community engagement to enrollment management to green technology has led Dr. Raymond Barclay (left) to Albion College, where he will serve as its new, and first, chief planning officer. “Ray brings a wealth of experience and will be an enormous asset as we move forward with our comprehensive plan for campus,” said Dr. Mathew Johnson, president of Albion College.
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Thursday, January 14, 2021
Originally, it was a collaboration borne of requirement and necessity. But now a virtual tutoring program called “Ask Albion” has evolved into a new way for Albion College students and students in Marshall Public Schools (MPS) to work together in the name of education.
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