College of Liberal Arts News
- Posted 04.11.25
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The public is invited to attend "Arts @ the Amp", a comprehensive arts celebration that will be held on Saturday, April 26, at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½'s new amphitheater.
- Posted 03.23.25
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Lesa Carnes Shaul spent the first 18 years of her life on Sand Mountain, where the Kilpatrick shooting, as it was known locally, took place. Compelled to revisit it, she describes her book as her "love letter to home."
- Posted 11.27.24
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When Lashontrei Henton’s son, Caleb, was diagnosed with autism, she began keeping a notebook close by to capture her thoughts, questions, and observations. That notebook soon became an invaluable tool for identifying Caleb’s needs, eventually inspiring her to create My Variety Child: A Caleb Book Series
- Posted 11.18.24
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Growing up in Pleasant Grove, Alabama, Treajure Caffee was the quiet student who preferred to observe rather than engage. Recently, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ clinical psychology major was selected by the National Institute of Justice Research (NIJ) to attend its 2024 conference held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania —an opportunity that many online students rarely receive.
- Posted 11.07.24
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Dr. Jacob Snyder serves as an associate professor at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, leading a new degree in the College of Liberal Arts: Politics and Justice. He envisions the degree as a steppingstone for students interested in law and politics.
- Posted 07.01.24
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This experience was both an academic and adventurous one and a personal journey toward discovering my future. As a History major, I not only learned more about the culture and history of Cape Town, South Africa, but this experience also solidified that education and assisting students is where I belong.
- Posted 06.17.24
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Nick Davis, an art professor at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, will have three DIY sculpture kits on display in a national juried exhibition at the Floyd Center for the Arts in Virginia this summer.
- Posted 05.22.24
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When ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ history education major Brandon Williamson boards a plane this summer for Cape Town, South Africa, it will be his first flight and first trip out of the country. He is checking both items off his list of goals thanks to the Alpha South Study Abroad Experience and the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
- Posted 04.30.24
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After spending more than four years studying to be an athletic trainer, first at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and then the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Mahkayla Young abruptly switched her major to integrated marketing communications.