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Elementary education alumnus Evans awarded by Bessemer City Schools

  • Posted 05.17.24
  • 8 minute read time
Growing up, Patrick Evans often played the teacher in a pretend classroom in his home. Although he did his best to educate his two ‘reluctant’ students, Evans, a recent graduate of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™s online elementary education program, recalls that his younger brother and his brother’s friend didn’t like his school.
Dr. Uchenna Akpom

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’s College of Business names new director of first of its kind online doctoral degree

  • Posted 12.21.23
  • 4 minute read time
Longtime ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ business professor Dr. Uchenna Akpom was recently named director of the University’s Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Rural Business program. The first of its kind degree program was introduced two years ago at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and features relevant courses that focus on critical issues as well as strategies and solutions related to rural businesses and designed to offer innovative solutions to global rural business challenges.

Mother and son celebrate together at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’s fall commencement

  • Posted 12.11.23
  • 8 minute read time
Leslie Hood was three months pregnant with her son Wesley when she walked across the stage to receive her diploma at Valley High School’s graduation in 1999.  Twenty-four years later, mother and son walked across the stage at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™s 2023 fall commencement, only this time, they each received a diploma. 
Former ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Public Safety major Ashlee Barnard

Gulf Shores firefighter touts ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’s public safety degree

  • Posted 09.13.22
  • 8 minute read time

Ashlee Barnard never intended to become a firefighter. After graduating from high school, she considered her next chapter essentially set: enroll at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, become a Tigers cheerleader and pursue a career in athletic training, one of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™s most popular and professionally successful degree programs.

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ student nurses at clinic

ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ paves way for nurses with RN to BSN

  • Posted 04.19.22
  • 4 minute read time

For the first time since the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½â€™s nursing education program was established in 1974, a cohort of nurses are on their way to earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.

Sisters, teachers — and now graduates of ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’s College of Education

  • Posted 01.12.22
  • 6 minute read time
There’s a symmetry that often blossoms between sisters, shared commonalities that become unmistakable. Ebony Ware-Parks and Kiera Ware could have enjoyed such a uniformity when they chose colleges.
ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduate student Olivia Canada

Commencement ceremony gives ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ online student ‘an excuse’ to finally see campus

  • Posted 12.07.21
  • 5 minute read time

Had she preferred, Olivia Canada could have chosen an easier path to a master’s degree at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½. She could have taken her time, enjoyed the process, made a few memories. But that wasn’t her choice.

Julie Payne at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½

At ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, Payne’s resilience is having an impact

  • Posted 12.03.21
  • 12 minute read time

There’s an unexpected comfort in Julie Payne’s voice, a soothing quality amid a slight Southern rhythm that belies her age. If you weren’t aware that providence had so recently jumbled her life, you’d believe her first semester at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has been nothing short of exquisite.

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