ASU renames building for civil rights icon
The historically Black university removed former Gov. Bibb Graves' name last year due to his ties to the KKK.
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ASU partners with Apple, Tennessee State University to become community center
Alabama State University will offer new learning opportunities for degree-seeking students and community learners.
September 1, 2021
ASU to require masks, negative COVID test for fall semester
The university, one of the state's most proactive during the pandemic, will also impose penalties for violating mask or social distancing rules.
Regions, ASU partner to erase college students’ debts
Donors, including a major donation from Regions, helped ASU seniors graduate without school debt.
ASU named vaccine site, will focus on underserved community
The university will vaccinate its health care workers and safety personnel, and then partner with the Montgomery Housing Authority.
First Black chief clerk of the Alabama House since Reconstruction appointed
Natalyn Williams is the first Black person since at least Reconstruction to hold the position.
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Alabama has failed at crisis management. If you doubt this, take a drive by Alabama State University or simply look at the photos taken by al.com of the parking lot outside of the university’s Acadome. Look at the massive line of people, many of them elderly, baking in the Alabama summer sun in the middle … Continued
ASU names new president of the Entomological Society of America’s Southeastern Branch
ASU’s Dr. Michelle Samuel-Foo is the new president of Southeastern Entomological Society of America. She is a recent newcomer to the ASU faculty, having joined the Hornet Nation in Jan. 2018 as an assistant professor, and is involved in both research and teaching on campus. Samuel-Foo has been very involved in various entomological-related organizations. She has served two … Continued
March 12, 2020
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See recent postsASU sure is boring these days
Try this: Do a Google news search for “Alabama State University,” and check out the results. Boring, right? What a difference a couple of years of good leadership can make. I’ve covered ASU for most of my career as a reporter and columnist. My first job in newspapers, when I was still in college, was … Continued
ASU’s Christine Thomas, Tanjula Petty keynote speakers at Harvard conference
Alabama State University’s Christine Thomas and Tanjula Petty were selected as keynote speakers at the National Diversity Congress’s “Women in Leadership Higher Education Conference” at Harvard University in November. Thomas, associate vice president for Institutional Effectiveness, and Petty, interim assistant provost of Academic Affairs, are known around the ASU campus as the “Dynamic Duo” for … Continued
September 10, 2019