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‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,’ is a phrase that epitomizes Amaya Carswell, a sophomore nursing major at the University of West Alabama and Miss Paragon 2024.
UWA Bronze Tiger Tree Campus USA

The University of West Alabama was recently recognized as a 2017 Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation.

UWA students get hands-on skills training as part of their education, making them ready to enter the work place already trained immediately upon graduation.
UWA Spring 2018 Graduates

The University of West Alabama will honor more than 500 graduates during spring commencement exercises on Saturday, May 5, during two ceremonies. Both ceremonies will be held in Pruitt Gymnasium on the UWA campus, with presidential receptions open to all graduates and their guests held prior to each ceremony.

During Homecoming festivities on Saturday, Oct. 28, the University of West Alabama announced its 2017 Homecoming Queen, Elizabeth Jones of Tuscaloosa. Jones and the Homecoming Queen’s court were nominated and elected by the UWA student body as the leading ladies of the week.

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