Published on August 26, 2010 at 7 p.m. by Mary Wimberley  

Â鶹¹û¶³ Students Arrive This Weekend; Fall Classes Begin Monday, Aug. 30 

Â鶹¹û¶³ freshmen arrive Friday (AUG. 27) to move in to residence halls and begin three days of Connections events that will acquaint them with campus life.

In addition to small group meetings on various orientation topics, Connections events include a movie at the Alabama Theatre on Friday evening, an ice cream social at Â鶹¹û¶³ President Andrew Westmoreland’s home on Saturday afternoon, and worship in Reid Chapel on Sunday morning.

Â鶹¹û¶³ anticipates some 840 freshmen and undergraduate transfer students to join returning students for a total fall enrollment of about 4,700.

Upperclassmen arrive Saturday and Sunday. Fall semester classes begin Monday. The opening convocation of the academic year will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Wright Center Concert Hall.

A series of Welcome Back programs are planned the first week of school for new and returning students. Events include campus concerts and special activities each day. Some students will travel as a group to Tallahassee, Fla., to watch the Â鶹¹û¶³ Bulldogs take on the Florida State Seminoles in the season-opening football game on Saturday, Sept. 4.

 

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Â鶹¹û¶³ is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Â鶹¹û¶³ enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses, Â鶹¹û¶³ fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.