[3] He was succeeded in 2024 by long-time trustee and alumnus Eric Blackhurst as interim president after Abernathy stepped down to focus on the Alma College Prison Initiative.

[8] Today, this is evident through many programs and symbols, including the Alma College Pipe Band, Kiltie Dancers, and its tartan.

While still maintaining a close relationship with the Presbyterian Church, Alma College accepts and welcomes students of all religious backgrounds.

Alma offers international study programs in countries including Argentina, Australia, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Scotland and Spain.

[12] Alma College in 2021 launched the first graduate program in its then-134-year history with the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree,[13] led by author and educator Sophfronia Scott.

[15] In 2023, the college launched a Master of Arts in Special Education with Learning Disabilities Endorsement program.

Its primary academic buildings, built with a red brick motif, are centered around a large square, McIntyre Mall.

The DDSC sponsors summer camps for elementary, middle and high school students in the area.

The college in 2019 dedicated the Wright Leppien Opera House Block,[20] a historic structure in downtown Alma which had been gutted by a fire almost a decade earlier.

[21] In addition to the main campus, the college also owns a 180-acre (0.73 km2) ecological research area containing woodlands, a willow marsh, a sphagnum bog, and a glacial kettle lake, with a full research facility and a bird observatory, located in Vestaburg, about 15 miles (24 km) west of Alma.

He wears a traditional highland Kilt, sporran, and sash woven in the Alma College tartan pattern.

This became the subject of debate in 1931 due to a series of stories by The Almanian, a student-run newspaper, expressing discontent over the limitation on cheers to "Go Presbyterians" or "Go Campbellites," the latter in support of the football coach, Royal Campbell.

It houses the Theatre and Dance Department, and serves as the performance venue for the college's eight music ensembles.