Category: Press Releases

Jim Vann ’76 received the Distinguished Alumni Award, which is the University of Montevallo National Alumni Association’s highest annual honor, at the 2024 Homecoming awards dinner and annual business meeting Feb. 16 in Anna Irvin Dining Hall. Vann is president, board member and shareholder of Dentons Sirote law firm in Alabama, where he is a… Continue reading Vann Receives UMNAA Distinguished Alum Award

Dr. Elizabeth Gassel Perkins ’04 received the University of Montevallo National Alumni Association’s Nathalie Molton Gibbons Alumni Achievement Award, which is given annually to an alum age 35 or older whose career and community contributions have reflected positively at the local, state or national level, at its 2024 Homecoming awards dinner and annual business meeting… Continue reading Gassel Perkins Receives UMNAA Nathalie Molton Gibbons Alumni Achievement Award

Matthew Nelson ’11 received the Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achiever’s Award, which is given annually to an alum age 35 or younger whose career and community contributions have reflected positively at the local, state or national level, at its 2024 Homecoming awards dinner and annual business meeting Feb. 16 in Anna Irvin Dining Hall. Starting as… Continue reading Nelson Receives UMNAA Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achiever’s Award

The University of Montevallo has been ranked among the best one-year online Master of Business Administration programs in the nation by College Consensus. The Stephens College of Business added the online MBA option in fall 2021 in an effort to meet the needs of its students and their busy schedules. Students can choose any combination… Continue reading UM Earns National Ranking for Best One-Year Online MBA Programs

Two-time Pulitzer winner, columnist, podcaster and author John Archibald will deliver the 2024 Hallie Farmer Lecture in LeBaron Recital Hall at Davis Hall on the University of Montevallo campus Wednesday, March 6 at 6:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A session and book signing.Archibald has been a journalist in the South for more than 35 years.… Continue reading Hallie Farmer Lecture Series Welcoming John Archibald March 6

“At this school, we are pure as gold,” proclaimed Student Government Association President Colton Rodano as Gold Side students, alumni, friends and family filling Palmer Auditorium on Feb. 17 broke out into screams, cheers and even tears. This winning catchphrase revealed that the 2024 College Night and Homecoming weekend had ended in a Gold Victory. … Continue reading Gold Side Takes the Win in 2024 College Night and Homecoming Weekend

As a leader in quality-for-cost among higher education institutions in the state of Alabama, the University of Montevallo will once again freeze tuition at the same rate it has been for the past seven years following a vote by the UM Board of Trustees on Feb. 16. When combining the costs of tuition and institutional… Continue reading UM Tuition Rates Frozen for Seventh Year in a Row

The University of Montevallo hosted a ribbon cutting for its new nursing facilities in Myrick Hall on Feb. 16, during the school’s Homecoming weekend events. Guests gathered around the front steps of the health sciences building, which has recently undergone renovations to house the proposed nursing program. The ribbon cutting also served as an introduction… Continue reading UM Cuts Ribbon on New Nursing Program Facilities in Myrick Hall

University of Montevallo alum Willie Phillips Jr. ’00 has been named chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by President Joe Biden, as announced by the White House on Feb. 9. He has served as acting chairman of FERC since Jan. 3, 2023, becoming the first Black person to lead the commission. Phillips was previously nominated by Biden as… Continue reading Montevallo Alum Named Chair of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

The University of Montevallo’s online graduate education programs in the College of Education and Human Development have moved up from 97th to 73rd in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Online Graduate Programs national rankings. UM is once again ranked among the top 75 programs nationwide and is in the top four in Alabama. Assessing 345… Continue reading UM Moves Up in U.S. News & World Report Online Graduate Education Rankings