ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Welcome

Welcome to the online office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Over the next year, my department’s first priority will be to protect the academic interest of the Students though a cooperative relationship with the University administration. We have much to accomplish over the next year and all students play a vital role in our success. I hope that our website provides an accessible and informative look at the work of the SGA, and I encourage you to contact our office with any ideas or comments that you may have. I look forward to working with you over the next year to make it the best time ever to be a student at the Capstone.

Job Description:

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is the student’s advocate in all matters pertaining to achieving our academic goals at the Capstone. This broad spectrum of responsibilities includes defending the value of degrees granted by the University, monitoring curriculum and advising policies, assessing the cost and availability of supplies that students need to be successful academically, establishing and optimizing SGA programs that improve the academic atmosphere, working with administration and students to uphold our high standards of Academic Integrity, Helping administration bring the best and the brightest students to the Capstone, and opening up the lines of communication between students, faculty, staff, and administration.

Goals:

  • Continue Working with UA Administration to find a solution that is convenient to students for easy On-Campus Printing in Computer Labs in Libraries.
  • Provide cheaper textbooks by repealing sales tax on textbooks, implementing a bring a textbook rental program, and investigating other innovative ways to lower the prices that students pay for textbooks
  • Post UA professor evaluations online available to students in a UA Database with last Semester’s syllabi
  • Provide more Time Between Classes by either moving to a class scheduling scheme where all UA classes don’t start and end at the same time or allowing 15 minutes between MWF classes
  • Publicize Course Packets and get more professors to participate in this program.
  • Implement a pilot program for a 24 hour library
  • Make laptops available for rent in the Ferguson Center
  • Allow “@bama.ua.edu” Gmail addresses available to students who want them.
  • Updated SGA Test File Interface and Database.
  • SGA Calculator Rental to be operated by University Libraries

Patty Ann Green
Director of Communications
Major
Communication Studies
College
Communications
Hometown
Columbus, Mississippi
Job Description
The Communications Director is responsible to formulating a centralized and productive message on behalf of the SGA and ensuring that the message is heard by and between student government officials, university administrators, and – of course – students.