UA, AU meet to improve relations
Crimson White – Nov. 17
About 75 people from the University of Alabama and Auburn University met Tuesday for Better Relations Day on the UA campus, said Grant Cochran, the Student Government Association’s vice president of external affairs. “Members of both SGAs as well as other leaders on campus – Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic and Student Alumni Associations, came together to focus on the goal of better relations,” Cochran said. SGA President James Fowler said Better Relations Day is an opportunity for both universities to work together to discuss ideas and challenges faced on both campuses…The SGA presidents signed the 2010 Better Relations Agreement that promised a positive environment for the Iron Bowl game.
UA student documentaries screen tonight
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 17
The University of Alabama Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, the UA Department of Telecommunication and Film and Capstone International will host the second annual International Documenting Justice film screening at 7 tonight at the Bama Theatre. Admission is free. The film screening is the culmination of the International Documenting Justice course, in which students devote two semesters and a study-abroad term to telling the stories of international injustice through film. The screening takes place during International Education week and features the short films of four UA undergraduates The short documentaries were filmed in Uruguay, Rwanda, Cuba and the border town of El Paso, Texas.
Crimson White – Nov. 17
Enterprise students begin Rural Medical Scholars program at UA
Enterprise Ledger – Nov. 17
Jackie Parks and Brad Peden of Enterprise have been chosen as 2010-11 University of Alabama Rural Medical Scholars and entered the first year of the program this fall. The Rural Medical Scholars Program (RMSP), which has been cited nationally as a model program for educating rural physicians, is a five-year medical education program leading to the M.D. degree. It is open exclusively to rural Alabama students. National recognition of the success of the RMSP has helped to lift The University of Alabama School of Medicine into the Top Fifteen Rural Medicine programs named by U.S. News and World Report to its list of “America’s Best Graduate Schools, 2009.”…
Can’t Pick a College Major? Create One
Wall Street Journal – Nov. 17
… Nevertheless, the number of organized programs is growing, says Margaret Lamb, director of the University of Connecticut’s individualized major program, which enrolls 150 of the university’s 21,500 undergraduates…the University of Alabama and others are adding faculty or other resources…
Library debuts new home
Tuscaloosa News – Nov. 17
… Speakers at the ribbon cutting included…Heather Pleasants, director of community education at the Center for Community-Based Partnerships at the University of Alabama…