The University of Mobile is where Chelsey Sayasane found confidence in the Lord, and in herself. It’s also the place that prepared her to land her dream job, even before she graduated. As co-host of Studio 10, WALA Fox10TV’s morning …
Coming Home
Allie Normand Ratcliff is coming home. And she’s inviting all of her University of Mobile family to come home, too. The 2015 graduate is UM’s new director of alumni programs. She has returned to her alma mater to handle alumni …
The Advocates
Dr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Shouppe Scholarship Fund Phillip Shouppe was always supportive of anything his wife, Sally, did. So when Sally joined the University of Mobile athletic department as administrative assistant 12 years ago, the university gained more than …
It Happens All the Time
“Their mentoring helped me to grow and become stronger in my faith while attending UM, but most importantly after I graduated and as I continue to move forward with life.” – Alexia Washington ’17 & ’19 If a natural or …
Retrospect
Who would have thought, back in 1961 when Mobile College was founded, that software development was something the world needed? Or that you could use a degree in graphic design to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, or that studying …
Ignite Your Why
Understanding ‘Why’ What is your “why?” It’s a question that businesses started asking of themselves in 2009, when author Simon Sinek wrote the bestselling book “Start With Why.” The idea, in essence, is that very few people or organizations know …
Growing by Degrees
The world of higher education is defined by degrees – the higher level degree a university offers, the more respected a university becomes in the world of academia. So when University of Mobile enrolled its first doctoral students in Fall …
Retrospect
Drive on the University of Mobile campus, and the first building you see beyond the flagpoles is William K. Weaver Hall. If there is one place on campus that alumni of all generations would have memory of, this is it. …
Building a Good Foundation
Michelle Manley Thomason ’92 Her University of Mobile education gave Michelle Manley Thomason a good foundation – one that ultimately landed her a seat on the bench as the presiding district judge in Baldwin County, Alabama. Now the 1992 graduate …
Weaver Hall Renovation
The technology is astounding. Augmented reality that allows students to view a virtual 3-D model of the circulatory system –and walk around the room to see it from different angles. High-fidelity human patient simulators that can be programmed by professors …