Quick Look at Past Domestic Trips

Past Domestic Spring Term Trips

  • Art Associate Professor Sandy Lopez-Isnardi and Communications Assistant Professor Janie Diels gave students a chance to work with a National Geographic photographer at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshop and then create a documentary project at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
  • Students in John Davis’ exercise and health science class lived at altitude in Colorado and took a wide variety of physiologic measures on themselves before, during and after they were there.
  • Also in Colorado, Theatre Professor Carol Fike lead a Yoga retreat, with stops at the Shoshoni Ashram, Rocky Mountain National Park and Naropa Institute.
  • Students in Professor Derick Hulme’s political science class traveled to Washington, D.C., to conduct hands-on archival research on the Nixon presidential papers at the Library of Congress.
  • Anthropology Associate Professor Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund conducted an archaeological field school at the Forest Hill Nature Area.
  • Michael Bishop and biology students followed spring bird migration paths to the Upper Peninsula and observed research stations along the route.
  • Education Associate Professor Nicola Findley’s “Schooling in America” course included visits to different kinds of schools throughout Michigan.
  • Music professor Raymond Riley and students traveled to the Gilmore Festival, an international music festival in southwest Michigan.

 

Alma College is among the top 40 baccalaureate institutions in the country for the percentage of students who choose to study abroad, according to a report published by the Institute for International Education. Among Alma’s graduates in the 2009–10 academic year, 61.4 percent participated in study abroad, which ranked 37th in the nation.

 

Graduate Profile

Brad Guigar

Brad Guigar
Graduation: 1991
Major: Art and Design

Once the staff cartoonist for the Almanian, Alma College’s student newspaper, Brad Guigar’s art now takes form in a weekly comic strip for the Philadelphia Daily News.

The 1991 graduate also publishes “Evil, Inc.,” an online comic strip about a corporation run by super villains for super villains. It’s read by tens of thousands of people every day.