Published on January 20, 2011 at 6 p.m. by Mary Wimberley  

Â鶹¹û¶³ will begin spring semester classes Monday, Jan. 24. As of Jan. 20, a total of 4,501 students were expected for spring courses.

The semester-opening convocation will be Tuesday, Jan. 25, at 10 a.m. in Wright Center Concert Hall. Â鶹¹û¶³ provost Dr. J. Bradley Creed will speak on the topic, “Yankee Ingenuity and the Grace of God: Snapshots of Three Antebellum American Baptists.”

The convocation will also feature the presentation of the George Macon teaching award and the Jennings B. Marshall faculty service award.

Students in Â鶹¹û¶³’s Beeson Divinity School will participate in their own convocation Tuesday at 11 a.m. in A. Gerow Hodges Chapel. Alabama Baptist State Convention president Mike Shaw will give the sermon. A Â鶹¹û¶³ graduate, Dr. Shaw is longtime pastor of First Baptist Church of Pelham.

The Beeson program will also include the presentation of this year’s divinity alumnus of the year award.

Students in Â鶹¹û¶³’s Cumberland School of Law and McWhorter School of Pharmacy began spring semester classes earlier this month.

 
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.