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An upcoming addition to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½Â campus will provide faculty, students and staff a unique outdoor space suitable for a variety of uses.

To honor the 2023 theme of Black History Month, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ is spotlighting its students, faculty, staff and a first-time member of the Alabama State Legislature.

Midway between the state capitals of Alabama and Mississippi — keystone sites of the civil rights movement — sits the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ campus. Other locations, namely Birmingham and Atlanta, are easy drives. It’s a stroke of geographic serendipity that ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student engagement teams want to explore.

Dr. Andrew Rindsberg, a professor of geology and paleontology at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, needs no reminder of the last time the earth wobbled with severity in Alabama.

When Byron Thetford added the role of Title IX coordinator to his duties this year at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, he already knew the value of concentrating on students’ well-being and their campus experiences. Serving seven years as ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™s director of student life and support had taught him that much.

Amid Sumter County’s stultifying August humidity and the sight of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ freshmen moving into Gilbert Hall dorms, Dr. Melissa Haab’s vision of students re-engaging with campus life is coming into view. 

Students in the Kappa Delta Pi international education honor society are using spring’s rebirth on the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ campus to serve the community and raise money for a worthwhile cause.

For two years, University Cinema in downtown Livingston existed not as a movie theater, but as a time capsule for life immediately before the Covid-19 pandemic shuddered most of the world.