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Jacksonville State University is a public, comprehensive teaching institution that provides educational, cultural, and social experiences for a diverse undergraduate and graduate student population. As a student-centered university, Jacksonville State University strives to balance academic challenges with a range of support services for students’ academic, career, and personal goals. As an academic institution, Jacksonville State University seeks to produce broadly educated graduates with skills for employment, citizenship, and life-long learning. As a comprehensive university, Jacksonville State University supports scholarly and service activities consistent with its academic and professional strengths.

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Huntingdon College, founded in 1854, is a community of faith, wisdom, and service. The College serves approximately 1,000 students within the traditional undergraduate program and the Adult Degree Completion Program (SBPS). Huntingdon provides an outstanding liberal arts education in an atmosphere that supports spiritual growth and inquiry.

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Faulkner University’s distinctive combination of academics, spirituality, and Christian community set it apart from most schools of higher education. This university is about real success, your success—the glorification of God through the education of the individual.

Guided by a commitment to Biblical truth, blessed with exciting, effective programs, and driven by the need to serve, Faulkner students are blessed not only with the education to know and serve God better, but to love His children better. To accomplish this, we set about to shape our students’ lives with four major tools:

Christian Community
Academic Quality
Faulkner Family
Individual Attention

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Mission Statement:
The mission of Concordia College is to educate students through Christ-centered education for lives of responsible and effective service in the church, community,and the world. To achieve this mission, Concordia engages its students in programs and activities which identify and meet their spiritual, academic, social, and physical needs.

1. Challenging and rigorous academic programs leading to a Bachelor’s degree in early childhood or elementary teacher education, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, or an Associate of Arts degree in general studies.

2. Extensive developmental skills courses and tutorial services for the under-prepared student.

3. Counseling and testing, career planning services, and intervention programs in substance abuse and other problems.

4. Regular chapel worship experiences, opportunities for Bible study, dormitory devotions, and spiritual counseling.

5. Opportunities for involvement in athletics, drama, Ensemble, production of a campus newspaper, and participation in various community services and activities in Selma.

INSTITUTIONAL GOALS

1. To provide an environment which helps students grow in Christian faith.
2. To provide an environment which fosters creative, inquiring and discriminating minds;
3. To provide effective learning experiences for students with differing needs, abilities, interests, goals, and ages so they may receive both a general education as well as specific, in-depth knowledge in a chosen area of study.
4. To provide an opportunity for total student development through a comprehensive and systematic program of student support services designed to complement the academic program by creating and maintaining a spiritual, cultural and social environment conducive to student life.
5. To continue to improve the quality of education by providing instructional and learning resources, support and facilities that strengthen academic programs and promote an environment conducive to the development of competence in personnel and pride in the institution;
6. To provide both associate and baccalaureate programs which prepare students for further study or the job market;
7. To provide credit and non-credit courses and other services designed to meet the needs of constituent communities.

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Birmingham-Southern College is the result of a merger of Southern University, founded in Greensboro, Ala., in 1856, with Birmingham College, opened in 1898 in Birmingham, Ala. These two institutions were consolidated on May 30, 1918, under the name of Birmingham-Southern College.

192 wooded acres three miles west of downtown Birmingham. The college has 45 academic, residential, administrative, and athletic buildings/facilities, including 25 new facilities/structures, additions, or renovations completed since 1976. New facilities since 1998 include a campus center, fitness center, 100,000 square-foot science center, and a new Fraternity Row. In addition, renovation was completed in Fall 2002 to reconfigure North Residence Hall to three- and four-bedroom suites for male students, and a renovation project to convert the Phillips Science Building into a center to accommodate the academic needs of the college’s Division of Humanities was completed in February 2003.

Birmingham-Southern College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097; Telephone number 404-679-4501) to award bachelor’s degrees and master’s degrees. In addition, the college is on the list of institutions approved by the following organizations: Alabama State Department of Education, American Chemical Society, AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, National Association of Schools of Music, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and University Senate of the United Methodist Church.

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