Prospective Student Recruiting
Carried on with extensive recruiting activities for Admissions: tours of department, letter writing, phone calling, e-mail writing, reviews of performance award submissions. Interviewer for Scholars' Summit (December 2011). Wrote new first year advising guide for the Art program (Winter 2011).
Students conducting research side-by-side with faculty has been an Alma College legacy for generations. Alma students team up with faculty on scholarly research or to collaborate on creative or performing arts projects. An annual Honors Day features student presentations, performances and exhibits. Many students present such work at regional, national and international meetings.
Mike Bishop
Departments: Biology
A childhood interest in nature became a love of bird watching for Alma College lab instructor Mike Bishop.
“A few people have called my interest in birds obsessive,” he says. “I prefer passionate.”
Bishop has been teaching at Alma since 1998 and directs the Alma College Bird Observatory, located on the College’s 200-acre ecological station.
