Sodexo MakeS a Gift Sodexo Campus Services, campus bookstore as well as the new UNA’s food-services provider, has Center for Financial Literacy and The FALL 2010 • VOLUME 18 • No. 3 for alumni and friends of the University of North Alabama announced a $1,950,000 gift to the One Hill, a student-operated branch of university. The gift will go toward a Listerhill Credit Union (see page 6). new student commons and academic Construction for the new facility has president’s message center as well as renovations to the not yet been scheduled. ADMINISTRATION Million President William G. Cale, Jr. Guillot University Center and the The GUC renovations will bring William G. Cale, Jr. Student Recreation Center. in a Rice Box Asian restaurant and Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost “We’re excited about this new Nine a Sub Connection, featuring fresh John Thornell Each year to provide book store and food partnership with Sodexo and their subs, wraps, salads and more. SRC Vice President for Business and Financial Affairs that I have had the services, respectively, to UNA. These commitment to enhancing the student renovations will feature a WOW Steve Smith pleasure to be your new agreements not only greatly experience here and providing Café and Wingery, offering wraps, Vice President for Student Affairs president I have expand services but also provide gifts Hundred opportunities for the community, as salads, Angus burgers on Texas toast, David Shields found ample reason and commissions to the University in well,” said Dr. Alan Medders, UNA southwestern fare and wings with a Vice President for University Advancement to be thankful for the several millions of dollars over 10 Alan Medders the people who years. vice president for advancement. variety of sauces. $1.5 million of the Sodexo gift will Fifty “Sodexo is very excited about create this campus Vice Provost for International Affairs • Added new degree programs and tracks, William G. Cale, Jr. community: faculty, Chunsheng Zhang including a Master’s in Geospatial go toward the student commons our partnership with UNA and our staff, administration, Sciences; Master’s track in TESOL; and academic center, while $450,000 commitment to ‘Making every day a students, alumni and friends. I feel the campus STAFF baccalaureates in Mass Communication is put toward GUC and SRC Thousand better day’ for UNA students, faculty, Editor pride in what we do, I feel the synergies that and Interdisciplinary Studies Carol Lyles (’70) emerge when we come together in groups small renovations. The student commons staff and the Shoals community,” or large to solve whatever the issues are, I feel will include, among other features, said Alan Kinkead, Sodexo general Designers the common trust we share in one another. We As we look to the year ahead, there is much to Karen Hodges (’84), Chuck Craig (’79) several new dining venues, the Dollars manager for UNA dining services. learned quite recently through a study conducted anticipate: Photographer by the Chronicle of Higher Education that the Shannon Wells (’05) • Continuing to prepare for reaffirmation elements that make UNA such a fine place to be of accreditation by the Southern Contributing Photographers also place us among the best universities in the Association of Colleges and Schools Carol Lyles (’70) country to work. So long as we continue to be a Evan Whisenant community that shares a common vision to serve • An ambitious building agenda Keisuke Banzashi our students well, we will continue to be the great o Complete architectural plans Contributing Writers institution that we are today. for a Science and Technology John Battcher (’65) The year now concluding has been busy and Building and a Student William G. Cale, Jr. successful. Here are a few of our accomplishments Commons and Academic Jeff Hodges (’82) that we can point to with Lion Pride: Carol Lyles (’70) Building John Montgomery (’01) • Completion of the Campus Master Plan o Wesleyan Hall and Annex Rebecca Walker (’07) Completion of Keller Hall Renovation renovation Josh Woods • • Completion of new air handling o Preliminary planning for new Send correspondence and systems in Bibb Graves, Stevens, Student Housing address changes to: LaFayette, Floyd Halls o Preliminary planning for UNA Magazine • Completion of improvements to Braly renovation of the Guillot Office of Alumni Relations Stadium including artificial turf, a new University Center UNA Box 5047 scoreboard, and a new sound system • Plan for a future in Athletics that will UNA Magazine UNA Magazine University of North Alabama • Received a $6M grant from the not include the Arkansas schools as 2 Florence, AL 35632-0001 State for science and technology members of the Gulf South Conference 3 e-mail: [email protected] construction • Continue to plan for an uncertain • Secured $1+M in federal support for budgetary future as the State and STATEMENT OF NONDISCRIMINATION national economies remain troubled 2 0 1 0 f a l l 2 0 1 0 f a l l It is the policy of the University of North Alabama to afford equal opportunities science, nursing, and the green campus in education and in employment to qualified persons regardless of age, color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion, or sex, in accordance with all program • Plan for new academic programs laws, including Title IX of Education Amendments of 1972, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1973, Americans with Disabilities Act, Civil Rights Act of 1991, • Began construction on new including a Student Success Center and and Executive Order 11246. The coordinators for nondiscrimination policies engineering technology are: for students, Irons Law Firm, 219 North Court Street, Florence, AL 35630, maintenance and bus storage facilities and for employees, the Director of Human Resources and Affirmative Action, at East Campus 217 Bibb Graves Hall, telephone 256-765-4291 or Your support to your university is vital to our email: [email protected]. • Implemented Phase II of the staff salary continued success. I look forward to seeing you Information contained herein is as it currently exists but plan, and I am pleased to announce on campus this year. is subject to change without prior notice. that we will continue that progress by implementing Phase III this year. Sincerely yours, • Concluded agreements with Follett Higher Education Group and Sodexo William G. Cale, Jr., President niverSity The university board of trustees was to maintain or even improve the U approved in June a new master plan beauty, intimacy and campus feel approveS projecting the campus’s growth that have been the hallmarks of the over possibly the next two decades. university for nearly two centuries.” new CaMpUS The plan, developed by KPS Group The development process for the MaSter plan Inc., in Birmingham, focuses on new master plan included surveys the provision of new open space, and feedback from the campus transitions to a residential campus community as well as the city of and more pedestrian-friendly Florence. The university solicited environment, the addition of new public feedback on the plan before its CaSh BenefitS UNA, Listerhill Credit Union partner to create Center for Financial Literacy In an age when personal financial hardship and increasing debt burdens are all too commonplace, the University of North Alabama and Listerhill Credit Union are partnering to create a first-of- its-kind Center for Financial Literacy on the UNA campus. The student-operated center will be designed to offer a casual commons area where students and community young people can receive sound financial advice in a comfortable peer-to-peer environment. Finance, economics and education students operating the center will receive professional financial training by Listerhill management. The Center for Financial Literacy will also include a student-operated credit UNA Magazine union – The Hill – offering a variety UNA Magazine 4 of financial products and services for Dr. William G. Cale, UNA president, I believe students at UNA will have a 5 students, faculty, staff, alumni and the said the university is seeing, now more strong financial foothold by graduation.” academic and activity centers, and the approval by the board. community. than ever, the need to equip students According to the U.S. Department continuous enhancement of campus Cale added that the plan presents “The Hill and the Center for Financial with an in-depth knowledge of personal of Education, the average loan debt of 2 0 1 0 f a l l beauty. “ideas, not directives, which 2 0 1 0 f a l l Literacy will be anything but a traditional finance. graduating college seniors in 2008 was “As this plan has been developed, collectively will guide us to grow in branch,” said Brad Green ’91, president “In today’s economy,” he said, $23,200. The average loan debt for UNA we’ve looked far into the future harmony with our neighbors, with and CEO of Listerhill. “It will be a fun “students are graduating from college graduating seniors in 2008 was $19,839. and innovative branch destination that with more debt than ever, so they’re Listerhill’s partnership with UNA and envisioned a campus that is our own structures, and with the will employ and be operated primarily financially burdened even before their includes a $625,000 gift toward the certainly different from today’s, but value of preservation of place that is by students of the university. This is careers begin. They need to know how to university’s new Academic Center and not so different that it would not be felt by everyone who has come to this definitely a concept that is unique to this wisely manage that debt, how to wisely Student Commons, where the Center for immediately recognized as UNA,” campus.” partnership between UNA and Listerhill.” invest their money before losing control Financial Literacy and The Hill will be said Dr.