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SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894
Volleyball
3 Pottery
7 The Dining Room
The Crimson Tide volleyball team defeated LSU in their SEC home opener. The win took the Tide’s winning streak to nine games. Junior Bruna Evangelista finished the match with a .409 hitting percentage, the highest on the team.
Students looking to fulfill their fine art credit may be interested in one of the University’s newly offered pottery classes. Ceramics I has two components: throwing and hand-building.
UATD’s “The Dining Room” premieres Monday in the Allen Bales Theatre. Six actors portray 58 characters, with 18 overlapping vignettes all taking place in the same room.
NEWS | ENROLLMENT
ALABAMIANS NOW A MINORITY AT UA ENROLLMENT
RATES
FRESHMEN
I IN-STATE STUDENTS
TOTAL
OUT-OF-STATE BREAKDOWN MOST STUDENTS FROM:
In 2014, 51% of all UA students were from out-of-state.
In 2011, 51% of incoming freshmen were from out-of-state.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
GEORGIA FLORIDA TEXAS TENNESSEE CALIFORNIA
LEAST STUDENTS FROM:
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
2014 FRESHMEN TOTAL
20%
37%
80% FLORIDA
21%
63%
AUBURN
79%
51% 49%
FOR COMPARISON
UA
UAB
MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING MAINE
OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS IN-STATE STUDENTS CW / Hannah Glenn
Total of out-of-state and international students outnumber in-state By Andy McWhorter | Production Editor
Douglas Fair and Brandon Skinner sat at the head of the table in a meeting of The 49, the University’s out-ofstate student organization, prepared for a transition. Fair, a senior from Knoxville, Tennessee, who helped found the
organization, stepped down as its president and turned over the leadership to Skinner, a junior from Philadelphia majoring in mathematics. “Doug will be sticking around as kind of an advisor, but from now on, I’ll be taking over the president role,” Skinner said. At the same time The 49 made its
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transition, the position of out-of-state students at The University of Alabama as a whole had transformed. For the first time in the University’s 183-year history, a majority of UA students are not from the state of Alabama. Together, out-of-state and international students outnumber in-state students. Stephen Katsinas, professor of higher
education administration and director of the Education Policy Institute, said the shift in demographics at The University of Alabama is the product of a years-long plan. “That this happened was no accident,” he said. “It was the result of a SEE ENROLLMENT PAGE 6
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