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Jane Elliott

Jane Elliott was the 2006 keynote speaker for Alma College Women's Month.  The day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jane Elliott divided her third grade classroom into blue eyes and brown eyes.  Her experiment gave power to students with a certain color of eyes, while making the other eye color students an inferior minority.  In effect, she was able to witness discrimination based on nothing more than eye color, and she watched her students transform from friends to adversaries.  Today, Jane Elliott travels the world discussing issues of power and discrimination.  She joined the Alma community to highlight her thoughts and experiences dealing with these issues on March 8, 2006.

 

Jane Elliott conversed with faculty and students at dinner before her presentation concerning her Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes experiences with discrimination.  

 

 

Alma students can explore the environmental wonders of the Galapagos Islands, practice Spanish language skills, study Ecuadorian culture, complete coursework in business finance, and fulfill a South American internship in entrepreneurship through Alma College’s one-of-a-kind partnership with Equatorialis University in Quito, Ecuador.

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Graduate Profile

Mollie Smith
Graduation: 2007
Major: Communication
Minor: Women's Studies

Mollie Smith can sum up her learning experience from her Women's Studies minor in one word -- perspective.

"This program really opened my eyes to all of the differences that are present in the world," says the 2007 alumnus.

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