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How To Apply

Review the information below before you fill out the application.

Selection Criteria

1. Proposal:

  • Would the activity broaden and deepen understanding of a specific transboundary issue or organization?
  • Would the activity provide “hands-on” opportunities to apply prior knowledge and experience in a transboundary context?
  • Would the activity would promote the development of leadership skills in a global context through creating an understanding of issues, considering ways of addressing those issues and confronting real world obstacles to propose solutions?

2. Qualifications of student:

  • Traditional course preparation
  • Prior experiential opportunities
  • Leadership interest and experience
  • Academic record
  • Evidence of ability to work independently

3. Financial need: A student’s award will be impacted by an evaluation of their financial resources as well as by consideration of a project’s cost.

4. Ability to make a unique contribution to the program.

Awards can support travel, program fees, living expenses and other relevant costs.

Responsibilities

  • P-GLOBAL Fellows agree to promote their experiences to the campus community (i.e. through presentations before Student Congress, articles in the Almanian, open forums for students and/or faculty)
  • P-GLOBAL Fellows agree to provide details about their experience to develop a campus-wide database that other students may utilize.

 

The memory and spiritual ideals of the late Bishop Thomas Makarios remain alive in a figurative sculpture that was dedicated in May 2009 near the center of campus. The Bishop, professor of religious studies at Alma for 25 years, was founder of the American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church of India and the first Metropolitan Bishop of Canada, United Kingdom and Europe, and South Africa.

 

Student Profile

Melissa Boguslawski

Melissa Boguslawski
Graduation: 2008
Major: Exercise Health Science, Chemistry
From: Madison Heights, Michigan
Interests: Sports, Heritage

Alma students are good stewards of the world around them. Whether cleaning a long-neglected Jewish cemetery in Poland or the Pine River in our backyard, you can be involved in service projects through classroom work or volunteer activities. Your education is personalized to your talents and interests to prepare you for service, leadership and stewardship.