Sr. Peg Albert, O.P., Ph.D., president of Siena Heights University of Adrian, Michigan, joined the Saint Michael's College board of trustees, and attended meetings on campus Dec. 5 and 6.
"I think it's very important for people who are part of the higher education community to serve on boards of peer institutions because all grow from those kinds of relationships," Sr. Albert said. "I can already tell Saint Michael's College is a wonderful institution."
Prior to joining Siena Heights in 2006, Sr. Albert had been at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, for 18 years. Her work there included serving as executive assistant to the president of Barry from 1994 to 2006, and as assistant and then associate professor of social work from 1995 to 2006. Sr. Albert took on the task of chief administrator of the Barry University School of Law in 1998, serving until 2006.
Sr. Albert is a member of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education and the National Association of Social Workers. She won the spirit of the founder’s Award, Barry University School of Law in 2003, and a number of other awards.
Sr. Albert earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1975 from Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., a master of social work degree from Barry University in 1982, and a doctorate in social work from Barry University in 1988. She participated in the Institute for Educational Management in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1998.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.