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 02.14.23
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Two by two, students from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø climbed along the eastern side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the hilly, 83-year-old Alabama River crossing that’s embedded in the nation’s civil rights story.
- Posted 02.03.23
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Midway between the state capitals of Alabama and Mississippi — keystone sites of the civil rights movement — sits the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus. Other locations, namely Birmingham and Atlanta, are easy drives. It’s a stroke of geographic serendipity that ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø student engagement teams want to explore.
- Posted 02.02.23
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As the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø celebrates Black History Month with several events in February, it also will welcome home one of its most influential and historical figures.
- Posted 01.27.23
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s College of Business will welcome alumnus Brad Bolton to campus on Feb. 22. Bolton is chairman of the Independent Community of Bankers of America (ICBA) and will speak to students and guests in Bridges Auditorium at Wallace Hall. The talk is open to the community.
- Posted 01.26.23
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By the time fall arrives on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus, Dr. Reenay Rogers and her College of Education colleagues expect their newest endeavor to be worth the excitement it’s generating this winter.
- Posted 01.26.23
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s latest effort to improve lives and economic opportunities in Sumter County is rooted in a single word: infrastructure.
- Posted 01.25.23
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By the time she enrolled at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Carlyn Rawls was already captivated by the notion of studying abroad. Reared in Millbrook just north of the state Capitol, she soon learned options were bountiful for curious students without fear of moving to the globe’s opposite side. It’s an experience she sought.
- Posted 01.20.23
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Foundation has received notice of a $3 million planned gift that will support student success and academic enrichment. The planned gift from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous is one of the largest in the University’s history.
- Posted 01.17.23
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Through perseverance and resolve, attorneys Alice Lee and Mahala Dickerson challenged entrenched social barriers, earned pioneer status and left legacies rooted in gender and racial equality.