UNION UNIVERSITY SERVES THE JACKSON COMMUNITY FOR ITS 20TH ANNUAL CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY DAY

Over 800 Union students, faculty and staff volunteered at over 50 service projects throughout the Jackson and surrounding community as part of the university’s annual Campus and Community Day Nov. 1.

Union University has dedicated an annual day of service in the local community for 20 years to remember the Lord’s faithfulness and the Jackson community’s service after devastating tornadoes that hit Union’s campus in 2002, 2003 and 2008.

Union’s Student Activities Council served at the Boys and Girls Club in Humboldt, Tenn., where they organized school, kitchen and recreational supplies as well as repainted the outside playground.

“We have been very short-staffed since COVID hit, so we have not had the capacity to do some of these projects,” said Gladys Robinson, director of the Boys and Girls Club in Humboldt. “These Union students coming here has lifted a great burden off of me and some of my staff workers; they are making a big difference helping us today.”

If you would like to donate to the new academic building, scan the code to the left or visit uu.edu/giving/nab.

Union Holds Groundbreaking For New Academic Building

Union University broke ground Sept. 9 on a 40,000-square-foot academic building on the Great Lawn that will house the McAfee School of Business and the departments of computer science and engineering.

TLM Associates of Jackson is the architectural firm handling the building’s design.

The McAfee family, for whom the McAfee School of Business is named, announced in 2021 a lead gift for the building. Carolyn McAfee Bruner and her late husband, James T. McAfee Jr., graduated from Union in 1961. Their son Tom is a 1994 Union graduate and is chairman and president of Hallmark Systems Inc. His wife Julie is a 1993 Union graduate.

Tom McAfee spoke at the groundbreaking about his love for Union and for his vision of what the new academic building will accomplish.

“The faculty at Union have a unique opportunity to share how their academic discipline enables them to live in the light of their faith that has enlightened them,” he said. “They’re able to demonstrate how God has called them to carry their light and to share their light with others. In turn, they are preparing students to go out and make a difference in the world with their own light.”

The building will be located between White Hall and Pleasant Plains Extension and will match the architecture and exterior appearance of the existing buildings on the Great Lawn. The interior of the facility will be built with innovation and the future of business in mind. The project is part of the campus master plan that Union trustees approved in 2019.