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The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public
State university

In the United States, a state university or state college is one of the public university List of colleges and universities in the state university system....
, doctoral-level university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Mobile
Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern United States United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama....
, Alabama
Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It was created by the Alabama Legislature
Alabama Legislature

The Alabama Legislature is the State legislature of the U.S. state government of Alabama. It is a bicameral body composed of the Alabama House of Representatives, with 105 members, and the Alabama Senate, with 35 members....
 in 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama
University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a state university coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System....
. At the time that this university was founded, a new concept was implemented in Alabama for the first time; that a public institution of higher education would be created that did not use race as a factor for enrollment.






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The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public
State university

In the United States, a state university or state college is one of the public university List of colleges and universities in the state university system....
, doctoral-level university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Mobile
Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern United States United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama....
, Alabama
Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It was created by the Alabama Legislature
Alabama Legislature

The Alabama Legislature is the State legislature of the U.S. state government of Alabama. It is a bicameral body composed of the Alabama House of Representatives, with 105 members, and the Alabama Senate, with 35 members....
 in 1963, and replaced existing extension programs operated in Mobile by the University of Alabama
University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is a state university coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System....
. At the time that this university was founded, a new concept was implemented in Alabama for the first time; that a public institution of higher education would be created that did not use race as a factor for enrollment. The only place in the state that was really open to this type of policy was the Mobile area. The rich cultural diversity of the Mobile area made it the obvious choice. No other areas of the state were willing to support such a school at that time. Plans for this university were being made as early as 1956.

The University is divided into nine colleges and schools, and includes Alabama's second state-supported medical school
Medical school

A medical school is a tertiary educational institution?or part of such an institution?that teaches medicine.In addition to a medical degree program, some medical schools offer programs leading to a Master's Degree, Doctor of Philosophy , or other post-secondary education....
. The university has an enrollment of over 14,000 students. To date, the University has awarded over 62,325 degrees.

The University has an annual payroll of $245 million (US), with over 5,800 employees. It has remained one of Alabama's fastest growing universities for the past several years.

Academics and Campus Life

The university offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degrees in nine colleges and schools. Several programs offer masters level degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. Doctoral level degrees are offered in several areas, including Medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, Marine Science, and Psychology
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
. Significant research is done by faculty members in these fields.

Colleges
The University of South Alabama has nine colleges:

  • College of Allied Health Professions
  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • Mitchell College of Business
  • College of Education
  • College of Engineering
  • College of Medicine
  • Doctor of Pharmacy Program
  • College of Nursing
  • School of Computer and Information Sciences
  • School of Continuing Education and Special
  • Mitchell Cancer Institute


Administration

The University is governed by a Board of Trustees appointed by and including the governor of Alabama. The Board appoints a president of the University. Since the founding of the University, there have been two presidents: Frederick Palmer Whiddon
Frederick Palmer Whiddon

Frederick Palmer Whiddon was the founder and long-time president of the University of South Alabama, the first four-year state-supported university in Mobile, Alabama, Alabama....
 (served 1963-1998) and V. Gordon Moulton (since 1998).

Athletics


Fight Song

We're the mighty Jaguars
Stand up and cheer,
In our colors we take pride;
On to vic'try lead us year after year
We will stand here side by side.
Through the years we've prov'n
Our glory and fame.
Honor be to the victor's name,


— U-S-A FIGHT!


FOR THE RED, WHITE & BLUE, GO JAGS!


Alma Mater

All hail great university, Our Alma Mater dear,
South Alabama, red and blue, proud colors we revere.
Nestled among the hills of pine, enduring throughout time,
Upward and onward may your fame continue in its climb.
It seems that we have just begun; too soon we must depart
In all that life has planned for us, you'll share within our hearts.
So with thy blessings now send us, pray highest be our aim,
South Alabama may we ever glorify your name!


The USA Rescue Squad

The University of South Alabama is also proud to boast the first collegiate rescue squad in the state of Alabama. The squad was accredited by the Alabama Association of Rescue Squads in November 2005 and attend intramural events and special events on campus. The squad hopes to eventually provide 24-hour on-call coverage for the main campus of the University of South Alabama once they increase their funding and membership.

Greek Life

Panhellenic Council

  • Alpha Gamma Delta
    Alpha Gamma Delta

    Alpha Gamma Delta is an international women's fraternities and sororities founded in 1904 at Syracuse University. The Fraternity promotes academic excellence, philanthropic giving, ongoing leadership and personal development, and a spirit of loving sisterhood....
  • Alpha Omicron Pi
    Alpha Omicron Pi

    Alpha Omicron Pi is an international Fraternities and sororities that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York....
  • Chi Omega
    Chi Omega

    Chi Omega is a women's Fraternities and sororities and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters....
  • Kappa Delta
    Kappa Delta

    Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the Longwood University , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the universities ....
  • Phi Mu
    Phi Mu

    Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternities and sororities established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia....
Interfraternity Council

  • Pi Kappa Alpha
    Pi Kappa Alpha

    Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international, secret, social, Greek alphabet, college fraternities and sororities. It was founded at 47 West The Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868....
  • Pi Kappa Phi
    Pi Kappa Phi

    Pi Kappa Phi is an United States social Fraternities and sororities. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg, Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty, Jr....
  • Kappa Sigma
    Kappa Sigma

    ?S is an international fraternities and sororities with currently 216 chapters and 29 colonies in North America. There have been more than 250,000 initiates, of which more than 182,500 are living and more than 12,000 are undergraduates....
  • The Kappa Alpha Order
    Kappa Alpha Order

    Kappa Alpha Order is an American social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 131 active chapters with more than and 149,000 initiated members....
  • Tau Kappa Epsilon
    Tau Kappa Epsilon

    Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternities and sororities founded on January 10th, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent ....
  • Sigma Chi
    Sigma Chi

    Sigma Chi is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, greek alphabet social fraternities and sororities and a secret society. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon....
 National Panhellenic Council

  • Alpha Kappa Alpha
    Alpha Kappa Alpha

    Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek alphabet sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle....
  • Alpha Phi Alpha
    Alpha Phi Alpha

    Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate Fraternities and sororities established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940....
  • Delta Sigma Theta
    Delta Sigma Theta

    Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community....
  • Kappa Alpha Psi
    Kappa Alpha Psi

    Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek alphabet Fraternities and sororities with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin....
  • Omega Psi Phi
    Omega Psi Phi

    Omega Psi Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities and was the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a Historically Black colleges and universities....
  • Phi Beta Sigma
    Phi Beta Sigma

    Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American Fraternities and sororities which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students....
  • Sigma Gamma Rho
    Sigma Gamma Rho

    Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana....
  • Zeta Phi Beta
    Zeta Phi Beta

    Zeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council....


The following is a list of Greek organizations that existed at the University of South Alabama that are no longer active sorted by founded dates.
  • Sigma Nu, (IFC Fraternity), Theta Mu chapter founded in 1970.
  • Sigma Alpha Epsilon (IFC Fraternity), Alabama Chi chapter founded May 8, 1971.
  • Lamda Chi Alpha, (IFC Fraternity), Phi Gamma chapter founded in 1972.
  • Theta Chi, (IFC Fraternity), Gamma Gamma chapter founded February 16, 1974
  • Phi Kappa Sigma, (IFC Fraternity), Beta Mu chapter, founding date unknown.
  • Zeta Tau Alpha, (Panhellinic Sorority), chapter designation and founding date unknown.


Alumni

Alumni of the University of South Alabama include:

  • Herbert L. "Sonny" Callahan
    Sonny Callahan

    Herbert Leon "Sonny" Callahan is a politician from Alabama.Callahan was born in Mobile, Alabama and he attended classes at a branch of the University of Alabama that was located in Mobile....
    , former United States Congressman
    United States House of Representatives

    The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
     (attended but did not graduate)
  • Luis Gonzalez, Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     Player
  • Jon Lieber
    Jon Lieber

    Jonathan Ray Lieber is a pitcher who is currently a free agent. Previously, Lieber played with the Pittsburgh Pirates , Chicago Cubs , New York Yankees , and Philadelphia Phillies ....
    , Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     Player
  • Marlon Anderson
    Marlon Anderson

    Marlon Ordell Anderson is a Major League Baseball Utility player#baseball for the New York Mets. He is widely known for his clutch hits, and writers for publications including The New York Times and Newsday have referred to him as one of the best pinch-hitters in the game....
    , Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     Player
  • Juan Pierre
    Juan Pierre

    Juan D'Vaughn Pierre is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He bats and throws left-handed.Pierre, who was named for Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal, went to high school at Alexandria Senior High School in Alexandria, Louisiana....
    , Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
     Player
  • Eddie Stanky
    Eddie Stanky

    Edward Raymond Stanky , nicknamed "The Brat", was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago Cubs , Los Angeles Dodgers , Atlanta Braves , San Francisco Giants , and St....
    , Major League Baseball Player & Manager; head coach of USA Baseball Program
  • Heath Slocum
    Heath Slocum

    Tyler Heath Slocum is an United States professional golfer and current player on the PGA Tour.Slocum was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He learned the game of golf from his dad, a former Mississippi club pro who participated in the Magnolia State Classic nine times....
    , Pro Golfer
  • Chris Murray, Collegiate Baseball Player, LHP Legacy Player of the Year 2007 (attended but did not graduate)
  • Jason Hamm, assistant coach of the Sacramento Kings
    Sacramento Kings

    The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings are members of the National Basketball Association ....


Publications

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External links

  • - National Health Pre-professional Honor Society