UA’s new nursing building opens doors to students (with video)
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 20
The new $16.9 million Capstone College of Nursing building opened its doors to students this week after nearly two years of construction. The facility, designed for nursing students at the University of Alabama, features two seminar rooms, three classrooms, a 148-seat auditorium, a 25-station computer lab, a 34-bed clinical practice lab and six computer-controlled patient simulation labs. The building also has two study rooms, a student lounge, conference rooms and faculty offices. Marsha Adams, assistant dean of the undergraduate program, said she was very excited that the building would finally be available to students. “This new facility will enable us to better prepare our students and expose them to types of high-intensity scenarios that they will experience in all fields,” Adams said. “We’ve always had a great program, but now we’ll be able to take students and go higher to prepare them for the health care delivery system.”…Funding for the three-story, 63,000-square-foot building came from private donations, including more than 40 gifts of $10,000 or more and two gifts of $1 million, as well as the use of federal and state dollars. Located in the 600 block of University Boulevard across from DCH Regional Medical Center, the building will be one of the first campus structures that many visitors to UA will see. The facility will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Sept. 10.
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Former UA leader praises constitutional reform effort
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 20
Former University of Alabama President David Mathews returned to the Capstone on Thursday to add his voice to the long-running campaign to reform Alabama’s 109-year-old constitution. Mathews, now the CEO of the Ohio-based Kettering Foundation, a public policy research organization, was the keynote speaker at the annual Bailey Thomson Awards Luncheon held by the Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform Foundation…The luncheon honored the late journalist and UA professor Bailey Thomson, who founded the constitutional reform group after a grass-roots rally in Tuscaloosa in April 2000. Thomson became interested in the constitutional reform issue while an editor at the Mobile Register in the mid-1990s and from then on advocated for reform until his death in 2003 at age 54.
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SGA opens up block seating
Crimson White – Aug. 20
The University of Alabama’s Student Government Association is making dramatic changes to its student block seating system for the 2010 football season…To emphasize that change, student leaders have renamed the name of the block seating area to “Student Organization Seating.” …SGA Vice President for Student Affairs Stephen Swinson said the SGA is partnering with The Source and Student Affairs administrators to actively recruit a broad community of student organizations for the revamped Student Organization Seating. “The SGA is encouraging all student organizations to apply for seating,” Swinson said. “We are eager for new student organizations to participate in Student Organization Seating and are excited about implementing a more inclusive student organization section.” The SGA will also make adjustments to the mandatory arrival times for student organizations hoping to occupy their designated seating section. All seating not occupied 45 minutes prior to kickoff will be open to the general student population, a fifteen-minute extension from last year’s 30 minutes prior mandatory arrival time…