‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom to speak at UA Insurance Day
Al.com – Sept. 21
“Forrest Gump” author Winston Groom will speak at the University of Alabama Insurance Day 2011 on Sept. 28 at the Bryant Conference Center. Groom is a Washington D.C. native who was raised in Mobile. His other books include “Gump and Co.” and “The Crimson Tide: The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football.” The event — presented by the UA College of Continuing Studies, the Culverhouse College of Commerce insurance program, the Alabama Department of Insurance and the Alabama Insurance Planning Committee — will include three separate tracks for continuing education credit: Property/liability insurance; life/health insurance; insurance functions/risk management…UA finance professor and head of Culverhouse College’s insurance program William Rabel said the event is a great opportunity for professionals who work in and with the property-casualty or life-health insurance industry…
School Launches STEM Path to an MBA Degree
US News University Directory – Sept. 22
Students who want to study technology, but also gain valuable business skills in the process have a new option at the University of Alabama. Recently, the school announced in a press release that it has launched a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) path for its MBA program. Under this course of study, students can complete their undergraduate courses and earn an MBA degree in about five years, according to the school. This program is specifically geared towards undergraduate students who are majoring in subjects like mathematics, physics, nursing, engineering and biology.
UA offers nonprofit mentoring program to students
Al.com – Sept. 22
The University of Alabama has announced that its Community Service Center and Career Center are now accepting applications for a new mentoring program in which students will work alongside a director of a nonprofit organization. The Nonprofit Protégé Program will allow selected students to work with a nonprofit leader over the course of an eight-week period…”I’m excited about our partnership of the Nonprofit Protégé Program because it will help students understand the value of the experience and give them knowledge for developing skills,” Mary Lowery, assistant director of the Career Center, said…
New study says recession clobbered smallest Alabama businesses
Birmingham News – Sept. 22
…The number of small, non-employer firms across Alabama dwindled between 2007 and 2009, the period sometimes called the Great Recession. So did the revenue generated by these small firms, according to a study by the Alabama Data Center at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce…Non-employer businesses — those without paid employees — are usually one-person outfits, according to Annette Watters, manager of the Alabama Data Center. The category includes many beauticians, truckers, real estate professionals, agricultural workers and others. Within the group, those targeting people as clients instead of industries fared better, she said. “If you’re selling your services to another business, sometimes it’s harder to make a profit and stay in business than if you’re selling services to households,” Watters said…Sectors with the largest decline in the number of businesses were those related to real estate, Watters said…
CBS42.com (Birmingham) – Sept. 21
Program developed at UA brings outdoors to the indoors for one Tuscaloosa school
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – Sept. 21
Woodland Forrest Elementary will serve as the pilot school for the “Discovering Alabama” program. It was developed at the University of Alabama and incorporates nature’s elements into all parts of the curriculum…
Library teaches students how to tweet
Crimson White – Sept. 21
University Libraries and Gorgas Information Services will teach students how to use Twitter as an information resource for their professional and academic lives today at Amelia Gayle Gorgas in room 205 from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. The new Lunch ‘n Learn workshop series will host a series of three workshops for students throughout the semester focusing on using social networks in job searches and the professional world…Josh Sahib, research and instructional services librarian, will be leading a workshop on Facebook in October. He said many students fail to change privacy settings in a way that will keep potential employers off their profiles…
Purgatorio at Allen Bales next week
Crimson White – Sept. 22
…Purgatorio is a dramatic discourse between two married people based on the Greek myth of Jason and Madea…Stephen Brunson and Amy Handra are the leads of the play and are both in their 3rd and final year of the graduate MFA acting program…Opening night is Monday, Sept. 26, and the show will run every night through Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and on Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. in the Allen Bales Theater…
Miss Sorority Row pageant comes to Bama Theatre
Crimson White – Sept. 22
…Friday’s Miss Sorority Row pageant, starting at 6 p.m. at the Bama Theatre…The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity has sponsored the pageant for the last three years to raise money for the American Red Cross, but half of the proceeds will go to the philanthropic organizations supported by the sororities of the top three contestants…
Mallet Assembly: a family
Crimson White – Sept. 22
Fifty years after its inception as a project of Dean of Men John Blackburn, the Mallet Assembly remains one of UA’s most un-traditional organizations…In its fiftieth year, Mallet still elects its own RAs and has its own written constitution, features that make the Assembly a truly self-governing student organization…The Mallet Assembly bills itself as a group that allows an individual to unapologetically be who he or she is…According to admissions chairman Spencer Carter, Mallet currently has 100 active student members and hundreds of alumni, some of whom were on campus as far back as the 1960s, that still communicate with current students…