Doug Phillips has been Discovering Alabama for more than 30 years
WSFA-NBC (Montgomery) – Dec. 21
Doug Phillips is proud, and justifiably so, to show a visitor around the Museum of Natural History at The University of Alabama. Dr. Phillips has been showing off the state of Alabama through his television program Discovering Alabama for 30 years.
UA unveils new website
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Dec. 21
The University of Alabama rolled out their new website today. The year-long project unveils a homepage optimized for all devices with emphasis on photos, videos and social media. Officials say that targeted content and enhanced navigation make this site much more user focused.
New book of essays sheds light on what it’s like to be a professor and a mom
Inside Higher Education – Dec. 22
Much of the literature in on being a mother in academe breaks down the various — usually negative — ways women’s careers are impacted by having children, and then suggests ways in which colleges and universities can better support academic moms. And if you’re looking for another book like that, Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy (Rowman and Littlefield) isn’t for you. Instead of a quantitative or qualitative study of its subject matter, the book instead explores what it means to be a mother in academe through firsthand accounts collected by editor Anna M. Young. . . . Q. You use the term “motherscholar” to describe your subjects/subject matter. Does that come from scholar (and University of Alabama assistant professor) Sara M. Childers’s essay on, in part, feeling the need to “reverse-cover,” or exaggerate her mother identity among other moms, or was it an existing term? And why do you think it’s appropriate — what does it communicate that “working mom” and other terms don’t? A. I really love what Sara Childers did in coining “motherscholar” as one word. It was not an existing term, but one I feel is a signifier or even a code switch for those of us who claim both identities.
Two Tuscaloosa City Schools teachers in running for state Teacher of the Year
Tuscaloosa News – Dec. 22
Two Tuscaloosa City Schools teachers will represent the city in the Alabama Teacher of the Year competition. Mikki Powell of Rock Quarry Elementary School was chosen in the elementary division, while Donmonique Morgan of Paul W. Bryant High School was selected in the secondary division. . . . Tuscaloosa City Schools also honored Yolondia Eubanks, director of field experiences and coordinator for overseas student teaching at the University of Alabama. A news release states that Eubanks placed many TCS teachers in their internships with the school system during her career.