Albion Pleiad

Today at 5:00, the publishing of articles by Pleiad staff members will discontinue until classes begin for the fall 2010 semester. This also means that any comments posted on the Web site will not be approved or made public until regular Pleiad operations resume in August.
For The Pleiad, summer publishing was a first. Albion alumnus [...]

Trevor Fisher, Tipton junior, knows from experience the impact that medical first responders can have. A licensed emergency medical technician (EMT), Fisher responded to a situation where a patient was undergoing cardiac arrest.
“Anytime there is a possibility of cardiac arrest or major trauma, stress goes through the roof,” Fisher said. “The patient became stabilized at [...]

This past spring, the Curriculum and Resources Committee (C&RC) was responsible for submitting a recommendation of program eliminations to the Board of Trustees. Casey Hoffman, Menominee junior and Student Senate president, sat down with The Pleiad to discuss his role as one of two student members on the C&RC staff during the program review.
When were [...]

On May 13, the Board of Trustees (BOT) determined which departments would be eliminated to execute the mandate of the reduction of 15 FTE faculty members.
The decision includes the elimination of computer science and physical education (with and without teacher certification) majors, as well as dance, journalism, and physical education (PE) minors and one tenured [...]

On April 14, all 28 tenure-track faculty members received notification that their appointments would not be renewed. According to Susan Conner, provost, this action should not be interpreted as a change from the original BOT mandate to eliminate 15 full-time equivalent positions.
The faculty handbook states that notification is required to tenure-track faculty with “two or [...]

In response to questions regarding Senate Bill 1232, which would ammend the Albion College charter is passed, President Randall sent a response to The Pleiad:
April 5, 2010
Senate Bill 1232 represents the last step of a governance review instituted by the College in December, 2007 and approved by the Board of Trustees (BOT) in May, 2009.  The approved [...]

Is it a mace?  Is it a scholarship?  No – it’s a plaque and time capsule; the senior class gift.  On March 23, the senior gift committee changed the senior class gift for the third time, settling on a bronze plaque.  The plaque will be affixed to a boulder in the green space that is currently [...]

On March 30, the Board of Trustees (BOT) amended the Faculty Handbook “in all ways necessary to permit the reduction of 15 full time equivalent (FTE) existing faculty positions, which may include tenured faculty positions, by the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year,” according to a memo sent to faculty members by Paul Tobias, chair [...]

On March 18, Michigan Senators Randy Richardville (R) and Mike Nofs (R) introduced bill No.1232, legislation with intent to amend the Albion College Charter of 1857.
If passed, the bill would cause the college – not individual Board of Trustee (BOT) members – to assume all liability in the event of a lawsuit if the member was [...]

Following months of deliberation, suggestions and fundraising, the senior class can toast to the last change in senior gift.
The senior gift committee has debated everything from a scholarship to a robot professor who doesn’t require salary, but on April 1, committee members voted unanimously in support of a chalice to accompany the originally proposed presidential [...]