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UWA names Compton executive director of communications and marketing

  • Posted 05.22.26
  • 2 minute read time
As part of the University of West Alabama鈥檚 continued emphasis on strengthening institutional communications, marketing, and brand advancement, UWA President Dr. Todd G. Fritch has announced the appointment of Betsy Compton as Executive Director of Communications & Marketing.

Pioneers Lee, Dickerson will enter Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame

  • Posted 01.17.23
  • 8 minute read time
Through perseverance and resolve, attorneys Alice Lee and Mahala Dickerson challenged entrenched social barriers, earned pioneer status and left legacies rooted in gender and racial equality.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence brings expertise to UWA

  • Posted 01.12.23
  • 5 minute read time
The impetus for Dr. Thomas Saile鈥檚 5,000-mile journey from southeast Germany to the University of West Alabama is steeped in academic cooperation between institutions separated by international borders and the Atlantic Ocean. But it also carries a simplistic twist.

National Heritage Area designation a long-awaited achievement for Black Belt and UWA

  • Posted 01.11.23
  • 8 minute read time
The day after President Biden signed the National Heritage Act into law, the phone rang on Dr. Tina Jones鈥� desk at the University of West Alabama. The caller was two time zones away, a Ph.D.-holding Californian who sought Jones鈥� help.

UWA announces Fall 2022 President鈥檚 and Dean鈥檚 Lists honors

  • Posted 01.11.23
  • 267 minute read time
The University of West Alabama has announced nearly 700 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President鈥檚 List and the Dean鈥檚 List for the Fall 2022 academic semester.

Four of UWA鈥檚 faculty & staff awarded for service

  • Posted 12.13.22
  • 7 minute read time
The University of West Alabama presented four prestigious awards to members of its faculty and staff during the Dec. 12 Board of Trustees quarterly meeting at Bell Conference Center. The Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Awards and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence Award were presented to distinguished employees.

Four of UWA鈥檚 faculty and staff awarded for service

  • Posted 12.13.22
  • 6 minute read time
The University of West Alabama presented four prestigious awards to members of its faculty and staff during the Dec. 13 Board of Trustees quarterly meeting at Bell Conference Center. The Loraine McIlwain Bell Trustee Awards and the Nellie Rose McCrory Service Excellence Award were presented to distinguished employees.

University Charter School comes full circle with senior class

  • Posted 12.13.22
  • 10 minute read time
From day one, aspirations and expectations have lived alongside education at University Charter School. They鈥檙e baked into its foundation, thoughts of academic achievement and varsity football and alumni returning every fall. But none has been more transformational than dreams about a senior class walking the hallways of the school located on the campus of the University of West Alabama.

Graham’s legacy at UWA now includes Kappa Alpha Psi scholarship

  • Posted 11.30.22
  • 9 minute read time
It鈥檚 understandable that Michele Graham Bradford unpacks memories of her late brother as if he were sitting beside her, smiling as she speaks. The recollections flow easily, sincere as the summer day is long. 鈥淗e meant the world to us,鈥� she said, 鈥渂ut every year we find out what he meant to other people, as well. He was just a great man.鈥�

The ‘sense of whimsy’ emanating from Shaul’s office at UWA

  • Posted 11.28.22
  • 10 minute read time
When Dr. Lesa Shaul reclines in her chair, within arm鈥檚 reach are shelves of classic literature, the poetry of Percy Shelley, William Faulkner鈥檚 streams of consciousness, the brilliance of Robert Penn Warren. For a professor of English, the cramped space seems an oasis of calm, a few square feet bloated with printed words worthy of memorization.

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