The Other Side of Mentoring

I always thought of mentoring as a one-way street. Something that flows in one direction, from the top down. A pouring into a student’s life, like water from a pitcher. The number of students I have had the opportunity to …

Coffee & Community

When Tori Acker graduated from the University of Mobile in 2017 with a degree in intercultural studies, she landed in a career that allows her to bridge the gap between cultures. Based in Alabaster, Alabama, her Vessel Coffee Co. started …

A Different Perspective

Many of the happiest and most successful people attribute their prosperity to a shift in perspective. Whether it was just meeting someone with different life experiences or surviving a crisis, there’s always a different way to look at things, which …

Dreams Do Come True

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 …

Find Your Voice

Chris James ’15 During his freshman year at the University of Mobile, Chris James was a wallflower, someone so quiet one of his classmates wondered if he could speak at all. Then music helped him find his voice, and God …

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 World is Your Classroom

College is a transformative time for most. It is an opportunity to learn new things, meet new people and develop independence from your past. For me, college was just that – a time to go and explore new parts of …

A World of Possibilities

International travel often changes who we are. It challenges us to consider new perspectives, helps us interact with those who are different from us, and leaves us with special memories of missed trains, delayed flights and new foods. At the …

Fine Arts, Fine Future

The University of Mobile’s art department is growing and making an impact, with the addition of two new Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in a program that has more than tripled the number of art majors from a decade ago. …

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 …