News Releases

New CSO Focuses on the Student Experience
Alma College plans to launch the Center for Student Opportunity during the fall 2012 term.

Pipe Band Wins U.S. Open Championship
The Alma College Pipe Band recently won first place in grade five at the United States Open Pipe Band Championship.

 

Alma College’s membership in Phi Beta Kappa is an indication of excellence within the liberal arts. Only 10 percent of colleges and universities in the United States share this distinction. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization.

 

Graduate Profile

Brandon Edward Miller

Brandon Edward Miller
Graduation: 1997
Major: Political Science

How many people can say they’ve sat as an intern at CNN’s international desk? Or worked as a press aide to Ambassador Madeleine K. Albright at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations? Or served in the Peace Corps for four years in Ethiopia and Madagascar, worked at World Bank in its anti-corruption unit, studied at Harvard and served as a law clerk for a federal judge?

Brandon Edward Miller can.

“My Alma experience was definitely the launching board for getting a kid from Hemlock High School all the way to Harvard Law School,” he says. “The liberal arts education and the opportunity to work so closely with faculty members is a unique experience that is hard to replicate.”