Tag: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

If the issue is UA preserving its federal funding and opening up the discourse to more viewpoints, then private funding would be the logical answer. Then Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six would have to survive in a new model where they would be required to compete in the arena of ideas that should exist on all college campuses.

Last month, University of Alabama professor and program coordinator Sim Butler published his book "And the Dragons Do Come" about his son's gender dysphoria, spending a significant amount of time criticizing Alabama's lawmakers, particularly State Sen. Shay Shelnutt (R-Trussville), who sponsored the Vulnerable Child Protection Act bill. 

On Wednesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent a letter to Peter J. Mohler, the President of the University of Alabama, decrying the removal of two identity-based magazines and the creation of a new magazine that will cover all points of view in one publication.

The University of Alabama is ending the publication of Alice Magazine and Nineteen Fifty-Six magazines. Both publications risk putting the university at odds with federal funds for diversity, equity and inclusion style practices and content that appear to influence content and hiring practices; the editor of Alice noted earlier this year the magazine is for women and "other marginalized peoples," and Nineteen Fifty-Six has been described as "a student-run magazine focused on Black culture, Black excellence, and Black student experiences at The University of Alabama."

A left-wing professor is being lauded by the University of Alabama Law School after her anti-Trump book recently made the New York Times and Amazon best-seller lists.

In a book released earlier this month, Sim Butler, an associate professor at the University of Alabama, chronicles his family’s story of raising a son with gender dysphoria in Alabama.

When Chantz Blackmon got on his lawnmower with his one-year-old son a couple of years back, he had an idea that would seem nearly impossible to many.

University of Alabama legacy football player Dre Kirkpatrick Jr. was arrested over the weekend, according to Tuscaloosa Patch.

The University of Alabama made a profit of $16,711,266 on athletics for fiscal year 2025.

Candice Hale, who filed a lawsuit against Auburn University, is claiming she was also fired from the University of Alabama and is suing them as well.

Next week, Turning Point USA will host its first public campus speaking engagement at the University of Alabama after the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk, in partnership with the Foundation to Abolish Abortion and End Abortion Now.

In April 2024, Rahim Thawer, a "racialized,” anti-Zionist, "queer" Muslim from Canada, was accepted into the University of Alabama's Doctor of Social Work (DSW) program. Thawer shared a graphic showing his admission letter and offer letter for a three-year teaching contract, which indicated that out of 188 applicants, only 20 were admitted to the university's social work doctoral program.

Riley McArdle, chairman of the College Republican Federation of Alabama, penned a letter to University of Alabama President Dr. Peter Mohler on Thursday, calling on the school to terminate any employee who is found to have made mocking public comments regarding the political assassination of conservative political activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

Students and campus visitors packed into an entertainment venue on University Boulevard in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday to honor the late founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk.

The University of Alabama continues to ignore calls to action, including the most recent from U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), refusing to follow the lead of colleges and universities around the nation who have taken immediate steps to address harmful statements and rhetoric on their campus and in their classrooms, to address journalism professor A.J. Bauer.

A Charlie Kirk memorial rally is scheduled for Wednesday on the University of Alabama's campus. According to event organizers, the rally is being held not only to remember the late Turning Point USA founder but also to inspire the next generation of conservatives.

Just hours before being cited in an NBC story about "hypertoxic rhetoric," A.J. Bauer, an assistant professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama, took to social media to blame Charlie Kirk's assassination on conservatives.

The city of Tuscaloosa is one of the most dangerous college towns in the U.S., according to a new list compiled by a group of defense lawyers.

A federal judge in Alabama on Wednesday rejected a request by the ACLU of Alabama to stop an anti-DEI law passed by state lawmakers in 2024.

Shirley Chalkley died on July 20. Even at age 90, what had never died was her love for the Crimson Tide.

The University of Alabama continues to treat gender identity and gender expression as a protected class, requiring students to agree to a Code of Conduct and an Equal Opportunity Non-Discrimination policy that include them in multiple places. 

An evidentiary hearing is underway this week in the case against Alabama’s law prohibiting state funding for divisive concepts.

The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees on Monday unanimously appointed Peter Mohler as the 30th president of the University of Alabama. 

The University of Alabama unveiled its latest edition of the UA license plate.

It’s a commencement speech that faculty, students and all who attended will never forget. It’s also one AL(dot)com would like to pretend never happened.

Michael “Buzz” Davis, a former University of Alabama basketball player, was found guilty Friday in the shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.

Alireza Doroudi, a University of Alabama mechanical engineering doctoral student from Iran arrested by ICE in March, is leaving the United States voluntarily, according to his attorney.