Profiles
Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term '09, students toured cultural sites in Peru, studied alternative energy in Sweden, analyzed theatre and dance in London, and examined Native American culture at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota.
Graduate Profile
Katharine Mitzner-Dagenais
Graduation: 1998
Major: Communication
Katharine “Katie” Mitzner-Dagenais has gone from being a broadcast journalist to managing public relations for a Los Angeles hospital.
She credits her program of emphasis major in mass communication and the liberal arts education at Alma College for the ability to pursue a wide variety of careers.