UA honors Capstone Heroes
Crimson White – Feb. 11
As part of Capstone Creed Week, the Student Leaders Council recognized 11 individuals and one organization as Capstone Heroes at an awards ceremony Tuesday night at Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library…Those honored were as follows: the Kappa Alpha Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Carolyn Fulmer, Jessica Garcia, Patty Ann Green, Robert Harris III, Elizabeth Jones, Brice Miller, Lindsey Mullen, Milton Nettles, Margaret Purcell, Ian Sams and Erin White…
Nursing Programs Grow
NBC13 (Birmingham) – Feb. 10
Even though Jeff State turns away about 300 qualified students, it has doubled its nursing program in the past year. University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa turns away about 500 a year. It’s also preparing to graduate more students by building a state-of-the-art teaching facility. It’s scheduled to open in August 2010.
Education Dynamics Experts to Discuss Innovative Enrollment Marketing and Student Retention Strategies at Upcoming UCEA Conferences
MSBNC.com – Feb. 11
…UCEA 94th Annual Conference, April 1-4, 2009 in Boston. Tomassi, along with Dr. Jennifer Jones, currently assistant professor of higher education administration and formerly director of retention at the University of Alabama, is slated to examine how traditional, nontraditional and adult students are using the Internet, and reveal research in support of students’ tendency to flock toward group activities such as “friends” networks, blogs, instant messaging applications and lifestyle/entertainment…To demonstrate the effectiveness of school-student online communication, Dr. Jones will use the University of Alabama and insideua as a case study to show how online communities can capture student interest while exposing them to retention-oriented material. She will also show how technology can track and measure student interaction to identify students at risk of attrition or under performance…
Despite grant loss, officials push forward with strategy
Florence Times-Daily – Feb. 11
…Buster Allaway, professor of marketing at the University of Alabama, presented his findings on commercial opportunities in the area to the 105 residents who attended the meeting. Allaway gave three reasons for commercial activity: local residents who spend money locally, an estimated 2,000 daytime workers who come to West Florence for jobs at Eliza Memorial Hospital and other businesses and, third, tourists who may be attracted by the Handy Home and festivals. Allaway said business opportunities to serve the daytime customers would include restaurants, a coffee shop, a convenience store, gift shops and auto shop. Allaway said that West Florence spends $36 million each year. “It doesn’t go here because there aren’t opportunities to make it stay in this area,” Allaway said. “The key is going to be starting small,” Allaway said. He also suggested that initial stores stay away from specializing…
Rapper Chuck D extols virtue of knowledge
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 11
Rapper Chuck D told University of Alabama students Tuesday night to be proud of their intelligence and use that wisdom to fix what he called a broken world. “Intelligence will save you, whether you are in the board room, the jail or in school,” he told the audience of about 200 in the Ferguson Center ballroom. Chuck D, founder of the influential 1980s rap group Public Enemy, spoke at UA as part of a multicollege tour during February…
Crimson White – Feb. 11
Freshman soars and scores
The (Nashville) Tennessean – Feb. 11
To say that 14-year-old Nathaniel Woodard is an overachiever is an understatement. The Sycamore High School freshman manager for the War Eagles basketball team pursues his passion for basketball…Nathaniel was born with spina bifada, a condition that occurs when the baby’s spin fails to close during the first months of pregnancy…So far, Nathaniel is taking that higher road with huge plans for success. “I will definitely go to the University of Alabama and study architecture,” he said emphatically. Alabama is one of several schools that offer a competitive wheelchair basketball program, with others in Wisconsin, Arizona, California, Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma and Missouri…
Panel discusses the black community
Crimson White – Feb. 11
The first installment of the Collegiate Politicians’ “Now What” series discussed the Obama presidency and its potential to affect economic stability, “politics as usual” and the perceived dualities of blacks living in America. “[Obama’s election] was not just about African-Americans, or ethnicity,” said Anthony Bolden, English professor. “He was the first person who actually stood for that position of progressive politics and development. And that’s why he was celebrated all over the world.” The discussion panel included Bolden, political science professor Utz McKnight, industrial engineering professor Christopher Greene, UA NAACP president Ashley Cherry, and Sustained Dialogue moderator Cedrick Alexander. The panel responded to popular video clips that evoked questions about Obama and the black community, and afterwards, took questions from the audience…
Library celebrates Darwin’s birthday
Crimson White – Feb. 11
The Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering will celebrate the 200th birthday of renowned scientist Charles Darwin on Feb. 12 at 2 p.m. Louis Pitschmann, dean of libraries, suggested sponsoring a small program on Charles Darwin, and those at the Rodgers library brought the idea to fruition. “The birthday idea popped into our minds and then we realized it was the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s book,” said John Sandy, head of Rodgers library…