Statewide Community Impact

Institutional Metrics

The University of Alabama takes pride in leading many community education and service initiatives throughout the state of Alabama.

Vision Days, hosted by the Division of Community Affairs is a campus-wide effort focusing on early recruitment of high school students from rural and underrepresented areas in Alabama. During 2019-2020 the program hosted customized campus visits for 648 freshmen from 25 high schools.
UA’s Winning Grants and Sustaining Communities Grant Training Program trained 12 community/ University teams on successful grant-writing strategies during the 2019-2020 academic year.

Community OUTREACH

UA’s Winning Grants and Sustaining Communities Grant Training Program trained 12 community/ University teams on successful grant-writing strategies during the 2019-2020 academic year.
During the 2019–2020 academic year, HomeFirst, a financial wellness program funded through a contract with Fannie Mae and implemented by UA’s Center for Community-Based Partnerships, assisted 73 individuals on their path toward financial well-being and potential first-time homeownership.
15 HomeFirst coaches and three HomeFirst staff provided 231 coaching meetings and completed 330 financial coaching modules while introducing effective resources and strategies to promote financial stability.
Vision Days, hosted by the Division of Community Affairs is a campus-wide effort focusing on early recruitment of high school students from rural and underrepresented areas in Alabama. During 2019-2020 the program hosted customized campus visits for 648 freshmen from 25 high schools.
The Alabama Education Policy Center created a comprehensive media campaign to highlight policy challenges and solutions for the state’s Black Belt region.
High school students from across the state of Alabama participated in the virtual STEM Entrepreneurship Academy in July 2020. Students gained insights into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and discovered entrepreneurship concepts that are essential for a business start-up based on a community need.
UA engineering researchers are working as part of the Columbia World Projects to demonstrate effective solutions to raw sewage draining into the waterways of the state’s Black Belt region.
During the first quarter of 2020, UA students completed over 77,000 service hours that created a $18,004,000.00 economic impact for the state of Alabama.
University of Alabama Dance Marathon raised $307,843 for Children’s Hospital of Alabama
Since 2015, the Rural Medical Scholars program has admitted 124 student scholars to address the shortage of primary care physicians in Alabama’s rural communities. The program recruits Alabama college students who want to become physicians.
UA hosted Celebrating 20 Years of Rural Health in Alabama: Partnering With Resilient Communities, the 20th Annual Rural Health Conference for 250 attendees.
UA’s United Way drive raised $ $385,056.41
The Center for Instructional Technology planned and hosted the UA System Scholars Institute as a series of virtual events for 500 attendees from across Alabama.
UA Law School’s Continuing Legal Education Department provided Alabama residents with 2,510 viewings of online training sessions and 7,162 in person seminars.

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