Recent News
- Posted 11.02.26
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community mourns the death of former president Dr. Richard D. Holland, the University’s tenth president and first alumnus to serve in the role.
News
- Posted 06.17.24
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Nick Davis, an art professor at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, will have three DIY sculpture kits on display in a national juried exhibition at the Floyd Center for the Arts in Virginia this summer.
- Posted 06.13.24
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Through a series of providential meetings, Mike Williams, Mayor of Butler, Alabama, and his sister, Patricia Williams Harris, recently partnered with the Alabama Nurses Foundation (ANF) and representatives John Beard, president of the board of trustees, and Dr. John Ziegler, executive director, to gift the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Foundation a $50,000 endowment for the Joan Williams and Alabama Nurses Foundation Nursing Scholarship.
- Posted 06.06.24
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s proposal to freeze tuition for the seventh consecutive year has been approved by its board of trustees at their June quarterly meeting. The decision comes as part of the board’s approval of the school’s operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year, and this reaffirms ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s various rankings as one of the best values of any university in the state.
- Posted 06.04.24
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At the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Donnie Cobb and technology education are so intertwined that it is impossible not to mention both in the same breath. Cobb is retiring as chair of the Division of Engineering and Technology at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, after more than three decades at his alma mater. ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Ken Tucker awarded Cobb’s Professor Emeritus honors at this spring’s Distinguished Service Awards for faculty and staff
- Posted 05.31.24
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An executive order in January 2023 from Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to address the state’s teacher shortage has helped launch Alabama’s inaugural Teacher Apprenticeship Program. The Alabama Office of Apprenticeship (AOA), the state’s apprenticeship agency, has partnered with the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and three other Alabama universities to implement the pilot program set to begin in fall 2024.
- Posted 05.22.24
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When ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø history education major Brandon Williamson boards a plane this summer for Cape Town, South Africa, it will be his first flight and first trip out of the country. He is checking both items off his list of goals thanks to the Alpha South Study Abroad Experience and the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
- Posted 05.17.24
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Growing up, Patrick Evans often played the teacher in a pretend classroom in his home. Although he did his best to educate his two ‘reluctant’ students, Evans, a recent graduate of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s online elementary education program, recalls that his younger brother and his brother’s friend didn’t like his school.
- Posted 05.14.24
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Lucas Johnson, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, received the 2024 William E. Gilbert Award for Outstanding Teaching for his efforts during one of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s May 3 commencement exercises. Given annually by the student body, the Gilbert Award recognizes outstanding teaching and excellence in undergraduate classroom instruction.Â
- Posted 05.01.24
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‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,’ is a phrase that epitomizes Amaya Carswell, a sophomore nursing major at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Miss Paragon 2024.