Faculty List

Catherine Fobes

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Service to the College

  • Faculty Health Care Administration Search Committee resulting in the successful hire of Dr. Dale Sanders, 2009-10
  • Sixteen faculty letters of evaluation, 1999-present
  • Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology 2006-09 (as Associate Professor) and January-July 2000 (as Assistant Professor)
  • Faculty Elections, Fall Term Sabbatical Replacement, 2008
  • Member, Faculty Steering Committee, 2007-08
  • Religious Studies Search Committee resulting in the successful hire of Dr. Kathryn Blanchard, 2005-06
  • Sociology and Anthropology Sabbatical Replacement and Part-time instructors Search Committees, 1999-present
  • Strategy and Planning Committee (Formerly President’s Advisory), 2002-04
  • Educational Policies Committee, 2002-04
  • Faculty Advisor, Alma College Women's Softball Team, 2003-present
  • Faculty Search resulting in the successful hire of Dr. Maurie Luetkemeier, 2000-01
  • Faculty Grievance (brought in for a campus rape case), October 2001
  • Faculty Search resulting in the successful hire of Dr. Brian Stratton, 1999-2000
  • Gerontology Advisory Committee, 1999-present
  • Faculty Search resulting in the successful hire of Dr. Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, 1998-99

 

Thirty-four percent of Alma students participate in intercollegiate athletics. Alma College competes at the NCAA Division III level as a member of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the oldest existing athletic conference in the nation. Alma offers 22 varsity sports—11 for the women and 11 for the men—including four sports that debuted in 2011–12: women’s lacrosse and bowling and men’s lacrosse and wrestling.

 

Leadership Profile

Katie Meloche

Katie Meloche

At Ghost Ranch, Muskegon junior Katie Meloche not only defined her passions, she also found her voice.

“I had no clue what I was walking into, and I didn’t know anyone at Ghost Ranch,” she says. “I’m shy, but I found myself speaking out. People listened to me, and I came back to Alma with new friends.”