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Motivation for Pursuing Honors

Please write an essay that addresses your motivation for seeking Honors at Alma College. Tell us about what kinds of experiences and insights you hope to gain through participating in the Honors Program -- and how you expect those might affect your life beyond Alma. In thinking about Honors at Alma College, what do you envision as central to the liberal arts education you will encounter here? Include as much description as you think necessary to let us know more about you as a potential Honors scholar.

First-Year Honors Seminar

The topic for next year's honors seminar is 'happiness and the good life'.
In an essay of 300 to 400 words, address the following questions: What is your definition of happiness? What, in your view, are the elements of a happy life? Is happiness the only goal in life that really matters?

The Alma College Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team has won 11 consecutive regional championships. The competition awards the SIFE teams that are most effective in teaching the principles of market economics through outreach projects in their communities. Last year’s team presented 12 projects, including teaching ethics and entrepreneurship skills to students at a juvenile detention center and launching an entrepreneurship competition for students with business ideas....

Graduate Profile

Dr. Heather Zielinski
Graduation: 1997

Heather Hays Zielinski was planning to attend veterinary school, but after her Alma College faculty advisors arranged for her to shadow a dentist she knew she was switching careers.