Albion Pleiad

SUSPICIOUS SITUATION:  Three students were walking behind the Dow Center.  Officers found them near the visitor bleachers.  They complied and left the area.

SUSPICIOUS SITUATION:  A vehicle was found in Lot 4 with the driver’s door ajar.  The door has been closed and the student emailed.

SUSPICIOUS SITUATION:  A report of a possible break in occurring in Lot 18.  Officers found that a student had locked his keys in the car and was trying to unlock the door with a coat hanger.

In a challenging economy, it’s harder than ever for recent college grads to figure out their plans post-college. Albion College graduates, however, have an advantage in the search for work after college. Starting with the 2014 graduating class, the Albion Advantage promises to prepare students for the world of employment with a four-year career readiness [...]

From its Albion-based location, Patriot Solar Group engineers, manufactures and sells solar trackers—the systems that support solar panels—to customers across the United States and internationally as well. The goal: to eventually be number one brand in the nation in megawatt hours for solar tracking systems installed. “We’re receiving almost daily requests from people to be [...]

Weeding. Watering. Feeding ripe, juicy tomatoes by hand to the local deer. It’s all part of the process of getting close to the food at the Albion College Student Farm. Agriculture has been featured in Albion’s year of sustainability, with Joel Salatin, a farmer in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, as the 2010 Richard M. Smith Common [...]

For the fall semester, a temporary new staff member has joined the athletic training department—Dave Moder, the athletic training department’s first-ever intern, who started on Sept. 1 and will treat athletes’ injuries until December. Hiring an intern has allowed the department to take the time to start a thorough search for a professor to replace [...]

On Aug. 26, Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell, ’71,  delivered the 2010 William K. Stoffer Lecture at Albion’s opening convocation, focusing on sustainability. The lecture was the first event in Albion’s theme year of sustainability. Heartwell has promoted sustainability across the city since 2004, stressing the need to encourage sustainability on three fronts—economic, environmental and [...]

Going green is in the forecast at Albion College—the 2010-2011 academic year has been dedicated to sustainability as part of the college’s strategic plan. But last fall, the college received an overall grade of C- for 2010 in the College Sustainability Report Card (CSRC), according to greenreportcard.org. The website compiled evaluations for 332 colleges and [...]

Kayakers and canoers on the Kalamazoo River may have rough water to paddle through with the possible creation of a white water rapids area in Victory Park. After a 2006 inspection of the Victory Park dam by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) revealed leakage in an earthen portion of the dam, it became [...]