Career Trends & Sheepskins
As Alabama’s job market changes daily and employers seek increasingly experienced personnel, higher education has become a standard route for many seeking...
Big First Plunge Back into Coastal Resort Housing
Cash is king. Just ask four Mobile natives who raised $62 million in private equity in less than six months. And they...
Disaster Master
On the campus of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas, college students enter a stately building of fellowship and refuge from...
Spotlight on Tallapoosa and Chambers Counties
Tallapoosa and Chambers counties in east-central Alabama have abundant natural resources, a strong emphasis on quality of life and an economy revived...
Fed Cuts Hit Home Hard
Mandatory federal budget cuts, enacted because Congress failed to approve a federal funding plan, are beginning to ripple through Alabama. ...
New Tools for Management
Today’s rapidly changing business environment requires business schools to equip graduates to be job-ready and employable. Career paths in business are becoming more...
Great Eats and Neighborhood Sizzle
Birmingham: El Barrio brightens the Second Avenue North scene Nearly every day for two years, Brian Somershield drove to work along...
Law Grads Face a Stern Market
Odds are, Grant Cofer has already heard more jokes about this than he ever wanted to. But between preparing for the bar...
Closing the Skills Gap
Even with an unemployment rate hovering at around 7.9 percent, many U.S. industry leaders say that one of their toughest challenges is...
Oil Spill Testimony Begins Flowing
The economic future of British oil giant BP hung in the balance during opening testimony in a long-anticipated federal court action over BP’s...