A microeconomist with research interests in the minimum wage and employment practices, JIm McCarley taught 41 years as a tenured professor and another 10 as an adjunct at Albion where he developed courses including Women in Economics, Econometrics, Armchair Economics (a First-Year seminar), and Great Issues in Social Sciences.
Alena Farooq, '18, Kate Hao, '99, Paul Huth, '77, Madison Kase, '18, and Brian McPheely, '78, are the newest members of the Albion College Board of Trustees.
E&M associate professor John Carlson went back to college at age 57 to earn his Ph.D. and has now found a home at Albion where he has developed a reputation of teaching accounting in a relatable and interesting way. This year his work has also earned him a state excellence in teaching award.
Some good word of mouth was enough to convince Jackson-based Consumers Energy to film a portion of its rebranding advertisement on the Albion College campus. And for one day, the College showed it was ready for its closeup.
Less than a month after a landmark biography of Betty Ford hits the shelves, its author, Lisa McCubbin, will participate in Albion College's annual Joseph & Donna Calvaruso Speaker Series. Her visit is scheduled for Thursday, October 4, at 7 p.m., at the Bohm Theatre in downtown Albion.
Of course, we should all pick up trash, recycle paper and conserve electricity. But environmental activists know that real change lies in the hands of politicians, policymakers and the people who elect, educate and support them. Read about three Ford Institute students who share unique views of environmental policy action in Michigan, via three very different summer experiences.
