Economy won’t cramp UA’s expansion, Witt says
Tuscaloosa News – April 3
University of Alabama President Robert Witt assured employees that an economic slowdown would not disrupt growth and expansion on campus. “We, and no one else, are in control of this university — not the national economy, not the state economy nor any other negative forces swirling around out there,” Witt said during his semester address to faculty and staff…
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 2
UA student-athletes have best fall on record
Tuscaloosa News – April 3
According to data released by The University of Alabama’s Office of Student-Athlete Academic Services, the school’s 17 scholarship programs spanning 21 Southeastern Conference-sanctioned sports had the best fall semester on record in 2007 as UA student-athletes achieved a combined grade-point average (GPA) of 3.04…
Birmingham News – April 3
University of Alabama golfer Michael Thompson to play in Masters
Birmingham News – April 3
University of Alabama senior Michael Thompson will leave campus Saturday to play in a golf tournament, but it won’t be the Morris Williams Intercollegiate in which his Crimson Tide teammates will compete in Austin, Texas, next week. His destination is just a tad more well known – Augusta, Ga., for The Masters. He punched his ticket there by finishing runner-up in last summer’s U.S. Amateur Championship, which also gets him a spot in the U.S. Open…
Mobile Register – April 3
Former UA professor says US remains far from MLK’s ideal
Tuscaloosa News – April 3
…The Rev. Dorsey Odell Blake, a former UA professor who is now presiding minister of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco…was this year’s guest speaker for the Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change…Blake is a former professor and was the first head of the African American studies program at UA from 1972 to 1977…
Crimson White – April 3
U.S. consumer optimism ebbs to lowest point in years
Birmingham News – April 3
…Ahmad Ijaz, an economic analyst at the University of Alabama’s Center for Business and Economic Research, said both indexes are close to where they would be in a recession. High gas and food prices, coupled with rising unemployment numbers, are sapping confidence, he said. “Consumers are feeling the effects of all of these, and on top of that, banks are tightening their lending because they have no idea how many of these subprime loans they’re holding,” Ijaz said…
Retired U.S. Rep. Dickinson dies
Montgomery Advertiser – April 3, 2008
…University of Alabama political science professor Bill Stewart said Dickinson’s “main claim to fame” was his solid support of the military, especially beefing up facilities at Maxwell and Gunter. “He was very important in making sure that Maxwell got the money and resources it needed,” Stewart said. “Of the five who were elected in 1964, he was one of the more effective leaders who served.”…
Engineering students place at conference
Crimson White – April 3
On Friday and Saturday of last week, 30 UA engineering students participated in the American Society of Civil Engineers 2008 Southeast Student Conference in Florida, and returned to Alabama with many honors in tow…The UA team placed third in a competition building a tower out of balsa wood, fourth in econo-survey, a competition that combines aspects of land survey and engineering, first in a “Mystery Event,” which was a skit they performed, and second in a professional paper-writing contest..
Education briefs
Birmingham News – April 3
High school sophomores from across the state will be at the University of Alabama on Thursday and Friday to participate in the Capstone Leadership Academy. Special guests include Winston Groom, UA alumnus and author of “Forrest Gump,” and John Croyle, former UA football player and head of the Big Oak Ranch…
UA’s Hip Hop Dance Team Performs on BET
BET – April 2
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – April 2