Financial Assistance Office

Welcome to the Student Financial Assistance Office!

We are here to help both current and future Alma College students navigate the financial aid process. Extensive information about scholarships, need-based aid, our policies and more can be found in our Admissions website. You may also contact us directly with questions.

Phone: (989) 463-7347
Fax: (989) 463-7993
E-mail: FinAid@alma.edu
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(Our office is located in the Lower Level of Hamilton Commons.)

Financial Assistance Staff

Michelle McNier, Director
mcnierml@alma.edu

Logan Carroll, Assistant Director
carrolllj@alma.edu

Amanda Austin, Clerk
austinak@alma.edu

Danielle Trayer, Clerk
trayerdl@alma.edu

 

Ninety-four percent of Alma College’s 2011 graduates reported working in full-time positions or attending graduate school within six months of graduation.

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Graduate Profile

Kristin Bender-Polizzi

Kristin Bender-Polizzi
Graduation: 1995
Major: Dance

Since graduating from Alma College, Kristin Bender-Polizzi ’95 has co-founded the Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre in Florida. The dance company, which she manages, features about a dozen professionally trained dancers, including Bender-Polizzi herself.

“As a shy young girl, dance was a means of expressing myself,” she says. “I was always more comfortable speaking through movement than with my voice. I love that dance is a universal language open to so many interpretations.”

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