The first year students are here! All 375 of them are here for Alma's annual Preterm, a solid week of orientation to the college life crowned with one intensive class. The students take a three-hour course ranging across the academic disciplines followed by informational sessions and social opportunities. The academic year with a full course load begins in earnest the day after Labor Day.
Posted: Sun, August 29th, 2004 at 5:35PM
Alma encourages its students to look beyond Michigan’s boundaries. The Posey Global Leadership Scholarship provides opportunities for Alma College students to travel anywhere in the world and complete a self-designed project. Alma students have completed projects on topics ranging from teaching to public policy, in places from the Philippines to South Africa.
Dr. Robert Vivian
Departments: English
It doesn’t matter the genre — poetry, plays, nonfiction, novels or short-stories — Bob Vivian just loves to write.
“Teaching and writing are a kind of moveable feast for me,” says Vivian. What I love about Alma is the opportunity to teach and learn on all kinds of different subjects without being pigeon-holed into just one.”
