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Black-and-white memorial graphic honoring Dr. Richard D. Holland, featuring his portrait and text recognizing his service as ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø president from 2002 to 2014 and faculty member beginning in 1967.
Recent News
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.
The impetus for Dr. Thomas Saile’s 5,000-mile journey from southeast Germany to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is steeped in academic cooperation between institutions separated by international borders and the Atlantic Ocean. But it also carries a simplistic twist.
The day after President Biden signed the National Heritage Act into law, the phone rang on Dr. Tina Jones’ desk at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. The caller was two time zones away, a Ph.D.-holding Californian who sought Jones’ help.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has announced nearly 700 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President’s List and the Dean’s List for the Fall 2022 academic semester.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø presented four prestigious awards to members of its faculty and staff during the Dec. 12 Board of Trustees quarterly meeting at Bell Conference Center. The Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Awards and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence Award were presented to distinguished employees.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø presented four prestigious awards to members of its faculty and staff during the Dec. 13 Board of Trustees quarterly meeting at Bell Conference Center. The Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Awards and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence Award were presented to distinguished employees.
From day one, aspirations and expectations have lived alongside education at University Charter School. They’re baked into its foundation, thoughts of academic achievement and varsity football and alumni returning every fall. But none has been more transformational than dreams about a senior class walking the hallways of the school located on the campus of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
It’s understandable that Michele Graham Bradford unpacks memories of her late brother as if he were sitting beside her, smiling as she speaks. The recollections flow easily, sincere as the summer day is long. “He meant the world to us,� she said, “but every year we find out what he meant to other people, as well. He was just a great man.�
When Dr. Lesa Shaul reclines in her chair, within arm’s reach are shelves of classic literature, the poetry of Percy Shelley, William Faulkner’s streams of consciousness, the brilliance of Robert Penn Warren. For a professor of English, the cramped space seems an oasis of calm, a few square feet bloated with printed words worthy of memorization.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s College of Education has been selected by the Kern Family Foundation for a $1.74 million philanthropic grant to fund an initiative designed to help strengthen rural education in ºÚÁϳԹÏ꿉۪s Black Belt footprint.

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October 5–9

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