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Fall 2016 enrollment exceeds expectations
Illustration by Corey BrightTessa Case - News Editor
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This academic year holds a record number of enrolled students for UAB, including the largest freshman class in history.
According to a press release from UAB Media Relations, record recruitment and retention rates has bolstered the number of students up by 1,202, reaching a record number of 19,535 enrolled students for the fall 2016 semester. This is a 6.56 percent increase from fall 2015, with a 24.7 percent increase to the freshman class alone. Retention rate increased 3.1 percent, which Barnes said hasn’t occurred in 12 years. -
Homesickness: how to cope with being away from the nest
Illustration by Sarah FaulknerMark Linn -
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As new freshmen head to class for the first time, many of them are also having to deal with a completely new environment, some living hundreds of miles away from home for what might be the first time in their lives.
But feelings of homesickness are completely normal, and experienced by the vast majority of first-time college students, according to Josh Klapow, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and associate professor at UAB.
“Most students who are homesick feel like they’re embarrassed, they don’t want to say anything, you know, they don’t want people to know,” said Klapow, who noted that somewhere between 60 and 80 percent of new students report feeling homesick.
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Panhellenic sororities break bid record
Alpha Xi Delta on Bid Day. Photo by Ian Keel
Tamara Imam - Managing Editor
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On Saturday, Aug. 28, almost 200 women ran across the Campus Green on Bid Day to join their new sorority sisters on the last day of a record-breaking fall recruitment week.
Alinea Esensoy, a former recruitment counselor and the president of the College Panhellenic Council of UAB tasked with facilitating much of the selection process, said a record 192 women accepted bids to join one of the five Panhellenic sororities on campus: Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Gamma, Alpha Xi Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Kappa. The largest number of bids previously given out was 151, according to Assistant Director of fraternity and sorority life Kristen Bowen.
