Here’s how some football student-athletes are making waves in the classroom
U.S. News and World Report – Dec. 14
…University of Alabama tight end Colin Peek, who has a 3.79 GPA in finance and is a first-team Academic All-American, says the same thing. In his house, he says, there’s school, and then there’s everything else. Success in academics starts “at the family level,” Peek says. “You have to be accountable . . .. My dad always says that to be a smart and well-respected individual is the highest honor, and I believe that. . . . Football is such a pleasure to play, but it could be a momentary thing for you. At any second, your career could be over. That’s why you put in the hard work in the classroom.”…
University of Alabama: Prickett gets achievement award
Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer – Dec. 15
Carol Prickett, a professor of musical therapy at the University of Alabama has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Music Therapy Association. It is the highest honor given in the music therapy profession. “To be able to spend my professional lifetime doing work I love is a great privilege,” she said in university press release. ” “Being a music therapist, teaching young people who will become music therapists, and doing research which contributes a little more knowledge to my discipline and to do these things at the University of Alabama, that’s as good as it gets.”