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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.
Former UWA Public Safety major Ashlee Barnard

Gulf Shores firefighter touts UWA’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 University of West Alabama, become a Tigers cheerleader and pursue a career in athletic training, one of UWA’s most popular and professionally successful degree programs.

UWA nursing students.

UWA nursing students benefit from The Caring Foundation support

  • Posted 07.27.22
  • 4 minute read time

Nursing students at the University of West Alabama benefit from the experience of the Ira D. Pruitt Division of Nursing faculty and a rigorous curriculum that prepares graduates for licensure examinations and employment.

UWA Associate Professor of Sport Management LaJuan Hutchinson.

UWA students select popular Hutchinson for William E. Gilbert Award

  • Posted 07.01.22
  • 7 minute read time
As an associate professor of sport management at the University of West Alabama, the 55-year-old Hutchinson is renowned for his passion for teaching, a willingness to mentor students, and his admitted love of sports. In May, Hutchinson was selected by the student body for the William E. Gilbert Award, one of UWA’s most prestigious annual honors that recognizes outstanding teaching and excellence in classroom instruction.

UWA’s College of Education gains new accreditations

  • Posted 06.30.22
  • 4 minute read time
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.

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’s Hill: ‘I’ve never wanted to be anything but a nurse’

  • Posted 05.27.22
  • 7 minute read time
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. 

UWA graduate eager to help future teachers, lessen food insecurity

  • Posted 05.12.22
  • 7 minute read time
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

The Slimp rules: Read, learn, and experience life

  • 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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