The unofficial online home for fans of the UAB Blazers. Part of Collegiate Sports Nation (CSN).

http://uasystem.ua.edu/wp-content/upload...061915.pdf

UAB Items of note:

1) Consideration of Resolution Granting Initial Approval of and Submission to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) the Proposed Bachelor of General Studies Degree (CIP Code 24.0102) at UAB

2) Consideration of Resolution Granting Approval of and Permission to Submit to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) a Notification of Intent to Submit a Proposal (NISP) for a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Human Resource Management (CIP Code 52.1001) at UAB

3) Consideration of Resolution Granting Approval of and Permission to Submit to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) a Notification of Intent to Submit a Proposal (NISP) for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Genetics and Genomic Sciences (C.I.P. Code 26.0801) at UAB

4) Consideration of Resolution Approving Construction of a New Parking Lot West of Interstate 65, Stage III and Master Plan Amendment

5) Consideration of Resolution Authorizing Negotiating of Terms of Owner/Architect and Owner/Consultants Agreements for a New College of Arts and Sciences Building, Stage II

6) Resolution Granting Approval of Renovation of the 2nd and 3rd Floors of The Henry B. Peters Building for the School of Optometry at UAB, Stage I

7) Consideration of Resolution Approving Naming of the
UAB Baseball Hitting Facility the Kathleen and
Michael Gallichio Baseball Hitting Facility

8) $1,000,000 Pledge to support the UAB School of Nursing Building Fund

9) $100k pledge from former Gov Albert Brewer for an Endowed Award in Professionalism in Medicine

10) $170k Pledge to support the construction of a new baseball hitting facility at UAB from Dr. Michael and Ms. Kathleen Gallichio

11) $500k Pledge in support of the President's Excellence Fund at UAB from Alabama Power

Did anyone know we were getting a new baseball hitting facility? Don't we already have one?

We already have one. They are just now getting around to naming it after the folks who donated the money for it.


It's about damn time.....

I hope it's not voted down or we will have to put a bulldozer to it. That's just crazy that it's now on the agenda.

Item #5 is important as the only new classroom construction project on the list at UAB NOT medically related.

How many of these have been approved since Ray Watts became President of UAB?

wasnt the parking lot west of 65 supposed to be parking for the stadium and remote for classes?

Yes. Still is. wink wink

well good... knock that cost down.

Here's what it looked like on the old master plan:

I also noticed the gift of $1M and change by John Johns and his wife to establish a Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion prize at U of A

(06-17-2015 02:39 PM)BlazrDawg Wrote:  I also noticed the gift of $1M and change by John Johns and his wife to establish a Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion prize at U of A

Perhaps Johns is trying to mend fences with PBJr. How many BOT member's contributions does this make to only one campus?

(06-17-2015 04:10 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote:  

(06-17-2015 02:39 PM)BlazrDawg Wrote:  I also noticed the gift of $1M and change by John Johns and his wife to establish a Judy Bonner Presidential Medallion prize at U of A

Perhaps Johns is trying to mend fences with PBJr. How many BOT member's contributions does this make to only one campus?

Beats me. Johns is a U of A grad,, dont know where is wife matriculated, but she was on the UAB Med School Faculty .