College of Liberal Arts News
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- Posted 11.28.22
- 10 minute read time
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- Posted 11.04.22
- 6 minute read time
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- Posted 08.30.22
- 6 minute read time
Since its establishment, the University of West Alabama’s Division of Economic and Workforce Development has focused on improving the outlook for industries and residents in and around Sumter County. That assistance is now receiving national attention.
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- Posted 04.22.22
- 8 minute read time
Somewhere amid Shakespearean comedies and Samuel Johnson poetry is where Dr. Stephen Slimp’s literary utopia exists. It’s embedded among the Nobel Prize-winning works of Herta Muller and Mario Vargas Llosa and Orhan Pamuk, the tome-like writing of Leo Tolstoy and the storytelling of novelist Miguel de Cervantes.
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- Posted 04.01.22
- 5 minute read time
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- Posted 03.16.22
- 5 minute read time
As silly as it seems, good-ol’ doughnuts -- not beignets from France, not baklava from Turkey, not cannoli from Sicily -- partially fueled Dr. Amy Jones’ path to the honorees’ table at the upcoming West Alabama Young Leaders Awards.
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- Posted 03.01.22
- 5 minute read time
For three nights in March, students and faculty at the University of West Alabama will do something the pandemic stalled but couldn’t ultimately prevent -- stage a production of “Steel Magnolias,” the renowned 1987 play that humanizes the depths of Southern women’s relationships and life experiences
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- Posted 03.01.22
- 4 minute read time
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- Posted 01.21.22
- 9 minute read time