University of Alabama names interim business dean
Tuscaloosa News – June 4
The University of Alabama on Thursday named the associate dean of its graduate business school the interim leader of the Culverhouse College of Commerce. J. Brian Gray’s appointment as interim dean begins July 1. Gray’s appointment follows the announcement of plans by Dean J. Michael Hardin to leave June 30 to become provost at Samford University. The university is conducting a national search to find a permanent replacement. “Brian has a wealth of administrative, teaching and research experience and will be an effective leader during this important, transitional period for the college,” said Joe Benson, UA’s interim provost.
Birmingham Business Journal – June 4
University of Alabama football players Reggie Ragland and O.J. Howard visit Tuscaloosa VA
Tuscaloosa News – June 4
They were greeted with smiles, handshakes and loud chants of “Roll Tide.” Two University of Alabama football players on Thursday visited the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, part of the team’s regular community outreach effort. While the veterans welcomed Reggie Ragland and O.J. Howard as heroes, the UA players said the veterans are their heroes. “It’s a privilege to get to hear their experiences and what they’ve been through in their lifetime,” said Ragland, a senior linebacker. “Knowing all they’ve been through and seeing the way they react to people, that’s special. It gives me hope for the future.”
Tuscaloosa News (gallery) – June 4
CBS 42 (Birmingham) – June 4
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Northport police and UA students do yard work around the community
ABC 33/40 (Birmingham) – June 4
Northport Police and University of Alabama students are teaming up to do yard work and clean up around the community. The goal is to help veterans, the elderly and disabled take care of their lawns.
Alabama could save 210 lives in 2016 by expanding Medicaid, White House study says
Al.com – May 5
If Alabama expanded its Medicaid program, it would boost federal spending in the state by $1.24 billion in 2016 and save the lives of 210 people who otherwise would die, according to a study released by the White House Thursday. In “Missed Opportunities: The Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid,” the report by the White House Council of Advisers draws on previously published research. It is the latest attempt by the Obama administration to persuade Alabama and 21 other holdout states to accept the deal under the Affordable Care Act to expand the federal-state health insurance program for the poor. It comes on the heels of a report released earlier this week by the Department of Health and Human Services detailing a number of statistics related to health insurance sold by private companies on the federal health care exchange … A 2013 study by the University of Alabama, commissioned by the Alabama Hospital Association, forecast significant economic gains. Later, an analysis by Troy University’s libertarian-minded Manuel H. Johnson Center for the Political Economy challenged those conclusions.