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Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) went a long way toward laying the groundwork for Cooperative Extension work in the state. Even before passage of the Smith-Lever Act, Luther Duncan , a 1900 API graduate, had organized numerous Boys' Corn Clubs throughout the state totaling more than 10,000 members in conjunction with his work with the U.S ...
The Alabama Policy Institute was founded in 1989 as the Alabama Family Alliance. Alabama Supreme Court justice Tom Parker was the founding executive director. [5] Gary Palmer, a co-founder of the Alabama Family Alliance, eventually became its president. [6] In 2000, the Alabama Family Alliance was renamed the Alabama Policy Institute.
The Alabama Policy Institute funded over $1 million to 1819 News in 2021, according to tax filings. [8] The name 1819 News is a reference to the year that the state of Alabama was admitted to the union. [9] The website became fully independent of the Alabama Policy Institute with the two organizations officially dissociating on December 31 ...
Beeson Divinity was established on February 9, 1988. It is named for Ralph Waldo Beeson (1900–1990), who gave one of the largest donations (70 Million USD) in Samford history to create the first divinity school at a Baptist college in the US, and for his father, John Wesley Beeson. [3]
An Alabama district judge who presides over cases in juvenile court, often involving child abuse or neglect, has been suspended after a state-led investigation that looked at hundreds of cases and ...
The majority of Alabama's colleges and universities are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), [4] although several are accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE), [5] the Council on Occupational Education (COE), [6] or the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC).
A view of Smith's campus c. 1900. The college was chartered in 1871 by a bequest of Sophia Smith and opened its doors in 1875 with 14 students and 6 faculty. [13] When Smith inherited a fortune from her father aged 65, she decided that leaving her inheritance to found a women's college was the best way for her to fulfill the moral obligation she expressed in her will: [14]
Maggie Smith, 32, walked back to her car in stunned silence. The Alabaman had gotten dressed up, applied make-up and made her way to a restaurant for dinner with someone she met on a dating app.