The University of Alabama SGA Student SPIRIT Campaign will hold its first 2008 “Swipe Week” Sept. 15-19 giving University of Alabama students a chance to show their school spirit by swiping their ACTion cards to make small contributions to a UA scholarship fund for first-in-family college students.
Reznick Group PC, a national accounting firm, has pledged $125,000 to The University of Alabama in support of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and its Culverhouse School of Accountancy. Ranked among the top 20 public accounting firms in the nation, Reznick Group employs approximately 1,500 people. The firm maintains 10 offices nationwide, including a full-service office in Birmingham.
The Rural Medical Scholars Program at The University of Alabama is now working with The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Deep South Center for Occupational Safety and Health to add an agricultural safety and health component to the master’s degree curriculum of the program.
The University of Alabama chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society will hold an initiation ceremony Sunday, Oct. 5.
The Manderson Graduate School of Business at The University of Alabama enrolled 78 students this fall, its largest full-time M.B.A. class ever.
The international partnership of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the largest accounting firm in the world, has made a $1 million pledge to The University of Alabama to support accounting in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration.
The University of Alabama is again ranked among the top 50 public universities in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings for 2009. UA is ranked 37th among public national universities and 83rd among all universities, both public and private.
The University of Alabama awarded some 1,300 degrees during summer commencement held Saturday, Aug. 9 on campus.
The University of Alabama has received a gift of more than $580,000 from the estate of G. Louise Green, a former Cherokee County teacher. The gift will be used to endow the M. Jack Green and G. Louise Green Scholarship Fund in memory of Louise Green and her brother, also a former educator.
SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 2008, 9 a.m.
COLEMAN COLISEUM