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Rising Tide Scholarship encourages students to help students

Rising Tide Scholarship encourages students to help students

Devyn Duncan September 2, 2016

Paying for college is daunting. Even with proper planning and careful spending, unexpected obstacles can make debt-free college seemingly impossible. Students can apply for scholarships, but these are...

Suder Foundation sues UA for more than $1.3 million

Patrick Smith February 1, 2016

The Suder Foundation, a private foundation based in Plano, Texas, has filed suit against The University of Alabama alleging the University breached a contract between the two after a premature cancellation...

What's scarier than Halloween? Student loan debt

What's scarier than Halloween? Student loan debt

Ben Jackson October 28, 2015

This Halloween, I’m dressing up as the scariest thing I can imagine. And no, it’s not Donald Trump – it’s student loan debt. What makes student loan debt so spooky is only partially related to...

International student enrollment a missed opportunity for UA

Kyle Simpson September 10, 2015

When you compare The University of Alabama to similar universities in the south, like The University of Georgia and The University of Tennessee, you will see that we have a remarkably high percentage of...

Alabama students named Goldwater Scholars

Collin Burwinkel April 19, 2015

The University of Alabama currently ranks No. 1 in the nation for Goldwater Scholars. This year, four UA students from all over the nation were selected as scholars, bringing the University’s total to...

University offers assistance for students filing taxes

Collin Burwinkel April 8, 2015

Students have less than one week to file taxes – April 15 is the last day to file Alabama State Income Tax Returns and the last day to file for automatic extensions.Students who receive scholarships...

UA transfer students see potential in 'College Promise': Obama proposes plan to pay for community college

UA transfer students see potential in 'College Promise': Obama proposes plan to pay for community college

Lauren Lane January 20, 2015

College tuition rates have increased twelvefold since records began in 1978, according to a report published by Bloomberg in 2012. As a result, student loans have officially reached over $1 trillion, making...

Students create scholarship site

Students create scholarship site

Alana Norris January 15, 2015

During the fall of 2013, SGA Chief of Staff Mary Wills conceived the idea for an external scholarship database after reading about a similar program offered at the University of Arizona.She brought her...

America’s College Promise presents numerous benefits, little downside

TJ Parks January 12, 2015

President Barack Obama introduced the America’s College Promise program last week, which would make two years of community college free to students. The presence of a Republican-controlled Congress,...

UA Scholarships Reward for Potential but not Collegiate Success

TJ Parks October 27, 2014

I have a friend who exemplifies what it means to be a successful student at The University of Alabama. She is a first-generation college student with a 3.953 collegiate GPA. She holds memberships to numerous...

Course fees vary by college

Course fees vary by college

Holley Long September 7, 2014

Many college students are surprised to discover college is even more expensive than they imagined. Housing, meal plans and textbooks are just a few of the stigmatized college fees applied to many UA student...

UA alumna Mignon Smith leaves philanthropic legacy

Melissa Brown February 15, 2012

Mignon Comer Smith, an Alabama philanthropist and heiress who established a scholarship foundation for Alabama high school students, died Friday at the age of 81. Smith, born in Birmingham in 1931, was...