Albion Pleiad

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While protective vertebrate adaptations such as horns, claws and antlers have always been commonplace in Kresge laboratories, a new apex predator wielding epidermal defense has been sighted campus-wide. Formed following the BOT rejection of the faculty motion, student group Tenured Advocacy Legion of Non-apathetic Students (TALONS) is on the prowl for professors’ sake, according to [...]

On April 23, Albion College students will be bouncing off the walls to “Bouncing off the Walls.” Sugarcult will headline this year’s April 23 Big Show, Union Board announced tonight.  Formed in 1999 in Santa Barbara, Cali, the band’s hit singles include “Memory,” “Pretty Girl” and “Bouncing off the Walls.” Sugarcult was chosen after Union [...]

A group of faculty members met last weekend at the Goodrich Club, but it wasn’t for something as formal as a committee meeting. On Saturday, March 27, 13 professors and their guests dined on a homemade meal prepared by the residents of Goodrich Club. “An annual faculty dinner used to be a time honored tradition [...]