Student Stories

The Gerstacker Institute student pursues a human resources path while balancing leadership roles in athletics and Greek life.

The Gerstacker Institute student and Albion golf team member drives gift shop sales as a USGA merchandising intern.

Music and physics majors Nathaniel Jennings, ’22, and Daniel McGarry, ’22, are concluding a successful undergraduate run. 

Albion College senior Caitlyn-Rae Arendse gained valuable on-the-ground research experience in fall 2021 through the city’s Urban Life Center.

For 99 hours over a February weekend, three Albion teams chose from six questions, created a mathematical model and wrote a paper together.

Nine college students—from seven countries and five continents, with dozens of cultural practices, food preferences, idiosyncrasies and opinions—sharing a house. It could be the premise of a reality TV show full of conflict. But at Albion College, it’s the Global Intentional Living Community (Global ILC), where the residents celebrate their differences as a personal, day-to-day experience.

From his first moments at Albion, Tyler Hood, ’21, felt at home. For his first campus visit, he stayed overnight at a fraternity house and was immediately impressed.

Campus events celebrate culture and national independence, and emphasize the need for more opportunities to share—and understand—experiences throughout the year.

From its origins as the Briton Rhythm Squad in the mid-1990s to today, alums and current members of the student organization line up for a reunion at Homecoming.

A summer internship with the newspaper’s Op/Ed team offered an appreciation for journalistic integrity and the continuing importance of traditional media.