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AUM’s Experiential Education and Engagement Center (EEEC) will host the 2024 Southeast and Mid-South Joint Regional Conference February 23-25. The conference’s theme is “Stories for Change” and will feature Derreck Kayongo, the former CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, as the event’s keynote speaker. Kayongo is also a social entrepreneur, founder…

AUM theatre students earned top honors at the 2024 Region IV Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). KCACTF’s annual festival recognizes top performing students in college and university theatre programs. This year’s event was held Feb. 6-10 in Albany, Georgia. Students recognized with honors at the 2024 KCACTF event: Tiara Staples. Staples earned first…

AUM’s chapter of Chi Sigma Iota Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society International organized two professional development workshops during the Fall 2023 semester that raised funds to support a new Montgomery arts organization serving adults with special needs. Collaborating with AUM faculty members Paul Hard and Keith Cates, Chi Sigma Iota provided the workshops to…

Auburn University at Montgomery will welcome Shelley Stewart, once one of Birmingham’s best-known radio personalities and a longtime philanthropist, as the keynote speaker for the university’s annual MLK Jr. Reflections Breakfast. Stewart, of Birmingham, Alabama, overcame poverty and family tragedies as a child to eventually become one of Birmingham’s best-known radio personalities and one of…

AUM alumna and Fifteenth Circuit District Judge Tiffany B. McCord…

When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, retired Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) professor Roger Ritvo felt compelled to reach out to his former students at Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) to offer comfort and support. “I received a grant from the AUM Research Council in 2017 to spend three months at Ukrainian Catholic University conducting…

AUM’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration will host a talk exploring polices designed to reduce poverty in the U.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 25, from 6-7 p.m. in Goodwyn Hall 110. The event, Poverty & Policy Talk, will feature guest speaker Richard Fording, the Marilyn Williams Elmore and John Durr Elmore endowed professor of political science at The…

A strip of greenspace at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) will become the landing zone for a Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter to touch down for about 30 Army ROTC cadets traveling to Fort Moore, Georgia, for field training exercises in November. The group of Army ROTC Mustang Battalion cadets will begin loading the helicopter at…