UA’s Tide Text launched
WVUA – Aug. 27
Students and staff at UA can sign up for text messages to be sent to their cell phones from the new “Tide Text.” These messages will include severe weather updates, breaking news and notifications of campus emergencies…

UA's Culverhouse No. 29 in country
Birmingham News – Aug. 28
The University of Alabama's Culverhouse College of Commerce ranked No. 29 among public undergraduate business schools in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings, the university said Monday…

Competing for students
Mobile Register -- Aug. 27
…“Our emphasis is not just on private schools. Our emphasis is on all schools. ... It gives me pause. We will look at it and see what we can do better." --Mary Spiegel, executive director of undergraduate admissions, on the University of Alabama's low recruiting in Mobile public schools…”The university here has a great college of communication and information sciences." --Shellie Street, graduate of Murphy High School going to Alabama…

Astronaut shares advice with teens
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 28
Col. James Kelly, who earned his Master of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Alabama in 1996…went to Northridge High School Friday to see what Kelly had to share with teens…

Every trick in the book for wealthy collectors
GreatReporter.com (London, England) – Aug. 28
…The book arts are related to sculpture and painting, but the genre today stands on its own, said Toniya Tidline, book historian and assistant professor at the University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies…

Bush seeking Truman bounce
Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) – Aug. 27
…"It's going to take two generations before anyone can make judgment on the success or failure of his presidency," recalled Forrest McDonald, a professor emeritus from the University of Alabama, a conservative and a highly regarded presidential historian, who attended the meeting. "You figure that it usually takes one generation, 20 years. He says it's going to take 40. It was a strange stance to me." Bush has publicly stated on several occasions that the true history of his presidency will be written long after he is dead.
McDonald said the jury is still out on the Bush presidency, that it "could go either way between favorable and unfavorable…

Princess Diana’s legacy
Tuscaloosa News – Aug. 27
…University of Alabama psychology and new college professor Jerome Rosenberg said that the adoration of Princess Diana is, in part, because of her tragic death. “She was elevated from a princess with many faults to an icon," Rosenberg said. “From now on, generations who never knew her when she lived will mourn her. That’s the psychology of grief, of identity and of feelings...

One in four adults read no books at all during 2006
Dowagiac (Michigan) – Aug. 27
…Whatever happened to Rick Bragg? The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, who visited Dowagiac in October 2002, is a professor of writing at the University of Alabama. He wrote Sports Illustrator’s Aug. 27 cover story, "Raising Alabama," about Coach Nick Saban, formerly of Michigan State, taking Tuscaloosa by storm…

UA Gets Ready for Gameday
WAKA (Montgomery) -- Aug. 27
Football Tickets are a precious commodity right now to University of Alabama students. Monday Freshmen picked up their tickets…

Riley designates Friday as 'College Colors Day'
Huntsville Times -- Aug. 28
With college football scheduled to kick off Saturday, Gov. Bob Riley urged Alabamians to wear their school colors to work Friday, which he designated "College Colors Day." University of Alabama opens its 2007 season Saturday at home against Western Carolina…
Sand Mountain Reporter – Aug. 28

mtvU Unveils Fall '07 Programming Slate
Money.cnn.com – Aug. 28
…Past installments of the series have featured…students at Auburn and the University of Alabama battling it out to develop the best college-centric "Snickers Satisfies" marketing campaign…