With students and families in Tuscaloosa this weekend for spring 2026 graduation, here's a quick history lesson about the UA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 1,200 students will become University of Alabama graduates during the summer commencement ceremony. The ceremony is ...

Friends and family gathered Aug. 2 in Tuscaloosa to celebrate summer graduation for the class of 2025. Around 1,240 students became University of Alabama graduates during summer commencement exercises ...

The University of Alabama hasn't offered a commencement speaker for its graduating classes ― save for the UA School of Law ― since spring 2007. At that address, James T. Stephens, former president and ...

The University of Alabama has a commencement tradition involving a ceremonial mace. The mace was crafted by university employees from the wood of the historic Gorgas Oak tree. The Gorgas Oak was a ...

The Alabama General Assembly officially established the first public university and named it the University of the State of Alabama. By the 1860s, the school was called the University of Alabama.