The Board of Trustees of The University of Alabama System has named UA President Dr. Robert E. Witt as the new chancellor of the System’s three campuses and the health system. Witt replaces Dr. Malcolm Portera, who announced his retirement earlier this year. Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Judy Bonner will serve as UA’s interim president.
The University of Alabama Supply Store will hold a Graduation Celebration on Wednesday and Thursday, March 7-8, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Ferguson Center Plaza (rain location Ferguson Center, first floor lobby).
The University of Alabama will add a Friday night ceremony to commencement exercises this May to better accommodate more than 3,700 graduates and their families.
University Libraries at The University of Alabama will select its 1 millionth student visitor in a ceremony at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 1, in Gorgas Library at the first-floor entrance.
Two new members have been named to the advisory board of trustees of the Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce.
John Travis Railsback has been named executive director of The University of Alabama Career Center.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Realizing the Dream Series will host internationally known performer and cultural activist Reanae McNeal for a performance of her one-woman show, The Jazz Singing Women, Friday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alabama Power Recital Hall at Shelton State Community College.
The University of Alabama Center for Ethics & Social Responsibility announced the first grand prize winner in its prize-linked savings initiative, SaveNow WinLater, with a surprise visit to Myra Jackson of Birmingham.
A total of 7,267 students enrolled during the 2011 fall term at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean’s List with an academic record of 3.5 or above, or the President’s List with an academic record of 4.0, all As.
The new mindset of interconnected global thinking is considered by some as the “new normal” and is the focus for this year’s Alabama Center for Real Estate conference to be held Friday, Jan. 27, at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center in Birmingham.