UA’s Ad Team places second in national competition
Tuscaloosa News – June 19
The University of Alabama’s Ad Team won second place in the American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition this month. Teams from 152 colleges and universities entered this year’s competition. Teri Henley, who teaches advertising and public relations at UA, said preparation began at the start of the 2011-12 school year when the federation announced the case study each school’s advertising team would address. Nissan, which sponsored this year’s competition, said it wanted the teams to develop an advertising campaign for Nissan North America targeting the multicultural market of Hispanics, African Americans and Chinese Americans ages 18 to 29. Henley said more than 40 students applied to be on UA’s Ad Team and 20 were selected. The team members were primarily advertising majors but included a graphic design major and a public relations major.
Foster care students to experience college life at UA summer camp
Al.com – June 18
A select group of high school students living in foster care will participate in a summer camp at the University of Alabama in the Nsoro Precollegiate Summer Program June 24-29. The camp is being run in conjunction with the Nsoro Foundation, an Atlanta-based organization that provides support to foster care youth who strive to attend college, according to UA. About 20 high school students will attend the camp, which will include a series of college preparation workshops and other activities. This marks the camp’s second year at UA.
Creflo Dollar and believing our girls
Slate.com – June 19
Over at Crunkfeministcollective, Brittney Cooper, a gender and race-studies professor at the University of Alabama, has a moving commentary on the scandal over pastor Creflo Dollar, whose 15-year-old daughter recently accused him of physically abusing her. What troubles Cooper is not just the incident itself—Dollar denies the abuse, and we don’t yet know exactly what happened—but that so many in Dollar’s church (and in Cooper’s own) utterly refuse to entertain the possibility that Dollar’s daughter might be telling the truth, that this successful and admired preacher might be not as virtuous as he says he is….