UA’s entrepreneur program ranks 20th in nation
Birmingham Business Journal – Oct. 23
The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration was recently ranked No. 20 nationally by Entrepreneur Magazine for its entrepreneurship program. It is the third-consecutive year it has been ranked in the top 20 business schools in the U.S. Culverhouse College of Commerce offers programs in accountancy, economics, finance and legal studies, information systems, statistics and management science, management and marketing, and business as well as online programs for a bachelor’s degree in general business and master’s degree in operations management.
Democrat, Republican debate faith’s political role
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 24
A few months ago, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, and Dr. Randy Brinson, a Republican from Montgomery and president of the Alabama Christian Coalition, met to discuss health care. Their conversation evolved to address many other hot-button topics, and the most contested issue was faith and politics. They decided to have a public forum on the role of faith in politics given from two politically different Christian perspectives. On Thursday evening, the University of Alabama’s School of Law played host to that forum. “We thought it was a good idea to have a forum showing that people of faith can have a disagreement on matters of public policy,” Davis said. “Faith informs people’s views on policy, and everything else.”
WIAT-CBS Birmingham – Oct. 23
What entices young students to work in rural America?
Rural Roads – Fall 2008 (PDF format)
Rural students are more likely than others to become rural health professionals because of the values a rural culture instills. Young doctors retaining rural values will seek their professional rewards in rural terms. Those with urban values will seek urban rewards. Levi Carpenter, a third-grader from Sylacauga, Ala., created a Venn diagram distinguishing rural life, urban life and the overlap after reading the Aesop’s fable “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse.” There is a bit of the “country mouse” in Levi – he lives in the country outside of Sylacauga, population 12,500. At the core, we are the same, but the environments, activity options, social demands and types of rewards differ. — John Wheat, M.D. (UA Community and Rural Medicine), with Levi Carpenter, third grade