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University of West Alabama
The University of West Alabama was chartered in 1835 as a church orientated women's academy and admitted its 1st students in 1839. After difficult times during the Civil War and the subsequent reconstruction periods, the school reopened in the late 1860s or early 1870s.
It would seem that a few male students were admitted following the reopening, a resolution by the Board of Trustees in 1876 excluded boys, and this policy was followed until the start of the Twentieth century. From 1881 to 1910 the institution at Livingston was under the direction of the noted educator and reformer Julia Tutwiler, who succeeded in obtaining a small appropriation from the State Legislature in 1883 to establish normal school training for women at Livingston Female Academy. According to statements in the University's historical archives, this is believed to be the 1st State appropriation in Alabama made exclusively for the education of girls. The first normal school diplomas were granted in 1886. In 1929 the school at Livingston became State Teachers College, Livingston, Alabama, with authority to confer the degree of Bachelor of Science. The Bachelor of Arts degree was authorized in 1947. Although the institution had begun accepting male students soon after 1900, the student body remained predominantly female through to the 1950s |
In 1957 the name of the school was again changed by an act of Legislature to "Livingston State College" and the following year the mission of the college was expanded when the Graduate Division was established and the College was authorized to confer master’s degrees in the field of professional education. In 1967 an act of the state Legislature created Livingston University, with its own Board of Trustees.
In 1995 the university recognized its broader mission as a regional college serving the educational needs of all the citizens of the area by changing its name to The University of West Alabama.
The University of West Alabama is a member school of the NCAA Gulf southern conference and offers the following intercollegiate sports:
Men's Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Rodeo and Tennis.
Women's Basketball, Cross Country, Rodeo, Softball, Tennis and Volleyball.
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