UA homecoming week packed with events
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 3
The University of Alabama’s homecoming week is officially under way with a schedule of events to keep students, alumni and fans busy until the Crimson Tide takes on the Vanderbilt Commodores on Saturday at 6 p.m. This year’s homecoming theme is “The Tradition Rolls On.” Katie Mellown, a senior at UA and the executive director of homecoming, said the theme best represents the role the university hopes to play in the continuing relief effort in the wake of the April 27 tornado…
Al.com – Oct. 3
Crimson White – Oct. 3
FOX6 (Birmingham) – Oct. 2
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Music, storytelling, re-enactments on tap for Moundville Native American Festival (video)
Al.com – Oct. 2
Musical performances, re-enactments, storytelling and more are on tap for the 2011 Moundville Native American Festival, from Wednesday, Oct. 5, thru Saturday, Oct. 8, at The University of Alabama’s Moundville Archaeological Park…
Huxford Symphony welcomes new director
Crimson White – Oct. 3
…In addition to this being the orchestra’s first concert of the year, this is also its first concert with Demondrae Thurman conducting as the orchestra’s new music director…
Dance Alabama! returns for 13th season
Crimson White – Oct. 3
Dance Alabama! is back beginning Oct. 4, revealing another round of student choreographed and danced performances for its 13th season… “These dance majors do something incredible every semester,” said assistant professor of dance Sarah Barry…Dance Alabama! runs Tuesday, Oct. 4 through Thursday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. at Morgan Auditorium.
Median selling price for Tuscaloosa home was $136,900
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 1
…Figures released Friday by the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama indicated 182 homes were sold in the Tuscaloosa market in August, compared with 221 in July and 121 in August 2010…ACRE noted that historically the August median selling price on average decreases by 0.3 percent from July to August in Tuscaloosa, although this year’s decrease was 12.8 percent. The August median selling price in Tuscaloosa during the last decade peaked in 2007 at $159,900. Grayson Glaze, ACRE’s executive director, said Tuscaloosa leads the state in home sale growth for the first eight months of the year, compared with the like period of 2010…
Though still high, Calhoun County home foreclosures lower than in 2010
Anniston Star – Oct. 3
…Some experts agree that the Alabama foreclosure market is showing slight improvement. However, they also suspect that foreclosures will not return to pre-recession numbers for years due to persistently high unemployment and low consumer confidence in the housing market… “It’s tough out there,” said Leonard Zumpano, professor of finance at the University of Alabama and the chair of real estate economics for the Alabama Association of Realtors. Zumpano said that, as in Calhoun County, foreclosures throughout the state had lessened in the past year. However, factors beyond the 2008 mortgage crisis, which caused the initial round of foreclosures, are keeping foreclosures persistently high. “Unemployment in the South has been rising,” Zumpano said. “I see continued foreclosures through at least the end of 2012.”…
Average American spends over 25 minutes commuting to work
WVUA (Tuscaloosa) – Sept. 30
The average American spends 25 minutes and 18 seconds driving to work each day. In Alabama, the average is a little less than that at 24 minutes. Those statistics are from the U.S. Census Bureau and they’ve been studied by the Alabama State Data Center at the University of Alabama. According to the study, workers in 2010 were less likely to carpool than they were in 2000. In 2000, 12.3 percent of Alabama’s workers carpooled.
College News
Tuscaloosa News – Oct. 2
Norma Cuellar and Susan Gaskins, professors in the Capstone College of Nursing, will be inducted into the American Academy of Nursing Fellowship during a ceremony at the academy’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., in October.…Bruce K. Berger, Reese Phifer professor of advertising and public relations in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, has been selected to give the 2011 Grunig Lecture at the Public Relations Society of America’s International Conference on Oct. 16…Teri Henley, APR and instructor of advertising and public relations in the College of Communication and Information Sciences, has earned accreditation in public relations…The Division of Student Affairs honored three former administrators at the 2011 Student Affairs Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Sept. 22. Glenda Guyton, former assistant to the dean of women, Tom Strong, former dean of students, and Joab Thomas, former associate vice president of student affairs, were selected…The University of Alabama College Republicans will host Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Chuck Malone at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Ferguson Center forum…Three members of the University of Alabama College Republicans appeared on the Glenn Beck program on Sept. 22. Beck featured chairman Cliff Sims, communications director Hunter Bronson and Secretary Katelyn McLarney about the entrepreneurial programs the UA College Republicans created…