Jazz Concert Emphasizes Variety, Improvisation
Featuring a variety of styles ranging from funk to Latin, the Alma College Jazz Ensemble’s fall concert promises to be fresh from start to finish.
Posted: Thu, November 3rd, 2011 at 2:53PM
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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
Tyler Martinez
Graduation: 2008
Major: Economics and Philosophy
“Economics has everything to do with, well everything!”
These are the words of Tyler Martinez, a philosophy and economics alumnus, who knew early on that money makes the world go ’round.
“Robert Cunningham put economics into perspective for me,” says Martinez, who graduated in 2008. “Now I find it hard to leave economic terms out of my daily conversations with family and friends.”