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Dr. Jan Miller is ecstatic that a renowned education association has accredited a degree program in the University of West Alabama’s Julia S. Tutwiler College of Education. She’s not satisfied, though. One isn’t enough.
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.
Polite as possible, Dr. Chineda Hill, an associate professor of nursing at the University of West Alabama, is nonetheless adamant. She permits no hesitation. She harbors no doubt. A smile shades her spunk. “I’m a nurse,” she said. 
Up in DeKalb County, near Lake Guntersville and about an hour’s drive from Huntsville, is where Brandon Renfroe teaches science at Geraldine High School. By almost any metric, from demographics and geography to socioeconomics and politics, that region of northeast Alabama’s Appalachian foothills seems as far from Livingston and the Black Belt’s western counties as it can be. 
Dr. Stephen Slimp

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.

UWA student nurses at clinic

For the first time since the University of West Alabama’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 UWA.

When Dr. Amy Jones, chair of the University of West Alabama’s Department of Communications, made a presentation recently for a state-level awards program, she didn’t go empty-handed.
Illia Dehodiuk and Andrii Stratiienko.

Ilia Dehodiuk never stops checking his phone. Never. “Literally every minute,” he says. He checks it each morning. While walking to class. Before practice. After practice. Before bed. Next day, same thing. He has to check. He must.

Dr. Amy Jones.

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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