Una To Celebrate First Amendment With Liberty Tree
Mar. 18, 2011
Michelle Eubanks, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, at media@una.edu, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
FLORENCE, Ala. - The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Communications will commemorate the First Amendment March 24 at 10 a.m. with the planting of a tree, known as The Liberty Tree, outside of the Communications Building. The basic rights guaranteed by the First Amendment will be the focus of a month of activities hosted by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Communications and sponsored by a Liberty Tree Initiative grant from One for All, Freedom House and the Newseum. For more information, contact the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Communications at 256-765-4247.About The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is an accredited, comprehensive regional state university offering undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs through the colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering; the Sanders College of Business and Technology; the Spencer College of Education and Human Sciences; and the Anderson College of Nursing and Health Professions. Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I and United Athletic conference. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is an equal opportunity institution and does not discriminate in the admission policy on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, disability, age, or national origin. For more: www.una.edu and www.una.edu/unaworks/.