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Helping students attain their degrees is goal of UWA reengagement program

  • Posted 10.04.22
  • 3 minute read time
A federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education is helping the University of West Alabama re-engage with former students who may be close to completing their degree requirements and usher them to commencement day.

SGA president’s message to UWA students: Get involved

  • Posted 09.26.22
  • 5 minute read time
Armed with a megawatt smile and ample familial assistance, Aaron Lee appears perfectly suited for the presidency of the University of West Alabama’s Student Government Association. He’s a senior. His sister, Aeriel Lee, is a UWA alumna. Two of his cousins, siblings Jasmine Knox and Jonathan Knox, are former SGA presidents at UWA. Though not preordained, his election seems exactly that.

Grant boosts UWA’s efforts to be ‘part of the solution’ with sexual-assault awareness

  • Posted 09.08.22
  • 7 minute read time
When Byron Thetford added the role of Title IX coordinator to his duties this year at the University of West Alabama, he already knew the value of concentrating on students’ well-being and their campus experiences. Serving seven years as UWA’s director of student life and support had taught him that much.
UWA band director Tyler Strickland

Marching Tigers’ new director sees ‘tremendous potential’ for growth

  • Posted 08.30.22
  • 9 minute read time

Dr. Tyler Strickland is a piano-playing, would-be percussionist from Birmingham who longed to bang drums in his school band, learned instead to play saxophone, married Auburn University’s first female drum major, directed high school bands in two states and spent the last three years as a graduate assistant with the University of Iowa bands.

Two UWA students moving into Gilbert Hall.

UWA administrators ramping up students’ on-campus experience

  • Posted 08.12.22
  • 7 minute read time

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

UWA announces Spring 2022 President’s and Dean’s Lists honors

  • Posted 06.01.22
  • 177 minute read time
The University of West Alabama has announced nearly 700 outstanding undergraduate students named to the President’s List and the Dean’s List for the Spring 2022 academic semester.

UWA students finally experience long-delayed Ireland trip

  • Posted 04.22.22
  • 8 minute read time
The short-term, faculty-led UWA in Ireland program began in 2018 as a cost-effective way to broaden the university’s global reach and create a study-abroad option that featured neither language barriers nor exorbitant costs for students because of the compressed schedule, Riser said.
UWA student Breonsya White.

UWA has grand plans for its new Veterans Success Center

  • Posted 04.19.22
  • 6 minute read time

In the Army National Guard, Breonsya White is an aviation operations specialist preparing for her first overseas deployment. At the University of West Alabama, she is a junior majoring in math education with aspirations of becoming a principal or professor.

UWA’s Kappa Delta Pi chapter will host ‘Light Up the Loop for Autism’

  • Posted 04.01.22
  • 3 minute read time
Students in the Kappa Delta Pi international education honor society are using spring’s rebirth on the University of West Alabama campus to serve the community and raise money for a worthwhile cause.
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