Alma College Representative for the Jack Kent Cooke Arts Awards
Contact person for students and recent alums interested in applying for graduate scholarships in the visual and performing arts.
In the more than 125 years since its founding, Alma College has stayed true to its roots by keeping its Scottish heritage alive. Today, Alma features a marching band clad in kilts, a Scottish dance troupe, a competitive pipe band and its own tartan. Each year, the College hosts the Alma Highland Festival and Games, which feature traditional Scottish games and revelry.
Maureen O’Connell
Graduation: 2010
Major: Spanish
Thanks to her Alma College experience, Maureen O’Connell felt prepared to zap culture shock as she ventured to Colombia after graduation.
The 2010 graduate, who teaches English through a Fulbright Scholarship, says the skills she learned as an undergraduate while working as a teaching assistant in the Spanish labs have helped her immensely.
