Saban urges students to value integrity
Tuscaloosa News – Feb. 12
…You’ll never accomplish what you’re capable of if you don’t have discipline,” Saban told students at the final event of Capstone Creed Week at the University of Alabama…This week’s focus was integrity, and Saban, along with UA President Robert Witt, spoke briefly on the topic at Ferguson Center…In his speech, Witt agreed that choices define lives, and a person’s integrity influences those choices. “It’s what protects us from making the kinds of decisions that, in an instant, can change your life,” he said.
Crimson White – Feb. 12
Former CIA agent settles down at UA
Crimson White – Feb. 12
There is little that suggests that Stephen Schwab has not been a professor for most of his career…Yet Schwab has not been a professor for long. He has spent the majority of his life working in the CIA…Schwab then started taking classes for his second master’s degree at night, and eventually came to the University for his Ph.D., where he started teaching classes as a graduate student. Schwab officially started teaching classes as a professor in the fall of 2008, after he completed his dissertation on the history of Guantanamo Bay. His book, “The Enduring Significance of Guantanamo, 1898-2008,” will be published this fall by the University of Kansas press…Schwab is an adjunct professor with appointments within the history department, the Honors College and the Blount Initiative Program…
HRC to help with off-campus housing
Crimson White – Feb. 12
…To help students with the transition to off-campus living the Housing and Residential Communities are sponsoring Off-Campus Housing Sessions…The Off-Campus Housing Sessions aim to teach students important things to know about moving to off-campus housing such as leases and tenant-landlord rights…The Housing and Residential Communities conducted a survey to see what issues students were concerned with about moving off-campus and they found that students were primarily concerned with budgeting, Elmore said. One disadvantage that students reported about living off-campus was the fact that they feel less informed about what is happening on-campus, she said…
Business briefs
Birmingham News – Feb. 12
Grayson Glaze, executive director of the University of Alabama’s Center for Real Estate, has been elected secretary of the Alabama chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management. He also will serve the organization nationally as the vice-chairman of its student and academic outreach advisory board.
Crimson White – Feb. 12
Education Briefs
Birmingham News – Feb. 12
The University of Alabama Graduate School has been awarded the prestigious Council of Graduate Schools/Peterson’s 2008 Award for Innovation in Promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community… — Roy Hoffman, an acclaimed novelist and journalist, will receive the 2009 Clarence Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences on March 5 at a dinner in his honor at the Hotel Capstone… — The new executive officers for the University of Alabama’s Interfraternity Council are: president, Joseph Siegelman of Birmingham, a pre-law major;… — The Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce will hold its first Alabama Elevator Pitch and Business Plan Competition next fall, the university announced. Participating college students will pitch business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists, investors and entrepreneurs, gaining feedback and an opportunity to win $5,000… — The University of Alabama College of Engineering has won a $2.98 million grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education to establish a five-year program for two high schools and four middle schools in Sumter County…