Announcement News

To honor the 2023 theme of Black History Month, the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú is spotlighting its students, faculty, staff and a first-time member of the Alabama State Legislature.

Midway between the state capitals of Alabama and Mississippi — keystone sites of the civil rights movement — sits the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú campus. Other locations, namely Birmingham and Atlanta, are easy drives. It’s a stroke of geographic serendipity that ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú student engagement teams want to explore.

Dr. Andrew Rindsberg, a professor of geology and paleontology at the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, needs no reminder of the last time the earth wobbled with severity in Alabama.

When Byron Thetford added the role of Title IX coordinator to his duties this year at the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú, he already knew the value of concentrating on students’ well-being and their campus experiences. Serving seven years as ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú’s director of student life and support had taught him that much.

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

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú in the Kappa Delta Pi international education honor society are using spring’s rebirth on the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú campus to serve the community and raise money for a worthwhile cause.

For two years, University Cinema in downtown Livingston existed not as a movie theater, but as a time capsule for life immediately before the Covid-19 pandemic shuddered most of the world.

The ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú’s Julia Tutwiler Library will host a book talk by author Ruth Beaumont Cook at the library on Tuesday, March 15, from 2-4 p.m. The public is invited to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served, and Ms. Cook will be signing copies for sale.