UA’s Diggs Honored at Women of Color Conference

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Connie Diggs, assistant vice president for student affairs and director of the Russell Student Health Center at The University of Alabama, has been recognized as a “Technology All Star” at the Women of Color in Health, Science and Technology conference and awards ceremony held April 12-13 in Nashville, Tenn. She will also be featured in the Women of Color Conference Magazine.

The “Technology All Star” award recognizes women of color who have significantly influenced the health community as a practitioner, administrator, scientist or technologist and whose contributions continue to advance technical career opportunities for other women of color.

Career Communications Group of Baltimore sponsored the two-day conference and awards program.

Diggs has served as director of the Russell Student Health Center since 1998. The UA center is the state’s only college health service accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care or the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. In 2000, the center was re-accredited by AAAHC for a full three-year term.

Last year, Diggs was awarded the American College Health Association’s Hannibal E. Howell Award, one of the association’s top 10 national awards. The award honors ACHA members who have made “outstanding proactive contributions” to their campus communities and ACHA by promoting health care and ways to prevent health problems relevant to ethnic minorities.

An Alabama native, Diggs has held a range of medical administrative positions, both inside and outside of higher education. Prior to joining UA, Diggs directed the student health center at California State University in Los Angeles. She earned her diploma of nursing from Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta, a bachelor’s degree in health science and a master’s in public administration from California State University, and a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles.