Alma College: National Model UN Winning Streak Reaches 16 Year

For the 16th consecutive year, Alma College students captured the highest awards at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City. 

Competing April 3-7, Alma College teams representing The Gambia, a small country in West Africa, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a small Caribbean nation, received “outstanding delegation” recognition, the highest award at the conference. It is the 16th consecutive year in which Alma College teams have received one or more of the top awards.

Alma College has won 30 “outstanding delegation” awards — the most of any college or university in the 90-year history of the conference.

The United Nations in New York City hosts the Model UN competiton. “This was a spectacular performance by our students,” says Derick Hulme, Alma’s Model UN faculty adviser. “This was our youngest team ever, with 14 first-year Model UN students. It was an extremely competitive conference, but our students, from the start of the conference to the end, were on top of their game.”

The national conference in New York is the largest and most prestigious collegiate Model UN competition in the world, with more than 5,500 students competing from five continents.

Model UN simulates actual UN bodies addressing the most diverse range of current international issues. Teams of college students take on identities of countries, and delegates from each country meet in committee to propose, discuss and debate topics. Once resolutions are completed in committee, they are presented to the Model UN replication of the UN General Assembly to be further debated before the assembly votes on resolutions.

Materials produced by the students are forwarded to the actual UN organization for their consideration.

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