Support Culture and Success Efforts in Culverhouse
Culverhouse Culture and Success Model SummaryCulture and Success Fund
The Culverhouse Culture and Success Fund supports our work. Our efforts are designed to mitigate challenges among diverse students, and to engage all our students in respect to culture and success, shaping their trajectory for academic, career, and life success. Built around mentoring and leadership training along with broader social and financial support as needed, the initiatives form a comprehensive effort to ensure that students reach their greatest potential and become their best selves, ready to make strong contributions to organizations and society. A few key elements are summarized below.
CRS Leadership and Mentoring Program
Upper-Level students who work in the office of Culture and Success, designated as fellows, will provide leadership, mentoring, and other developmental support. This relationship will support mentees’ academic success as well as personal and professional development. Culture and Success fellows are leaders from various Culverhouse student organizations who will also be trained and be able to serve as peer mentors, aiding in their development and preparation for a diverse workplace. Culture and Success alumni fellows are Culverhouse alums who commit a couple of hours a month to interacting with their designated pod members, providing mentoring and sponsorship for Fellows and mentees. Student Fellows help to coordinate these interactions. This effort builds upon our Black History Month Alumni Speaker Series, with some of those participants and other alumni contributing to the organizational and mentoring efforts. It also complements our Diversity in Business Bridge Program. The first class of Fellows was identified and in place for Fall 2021.
Women’s Leadership in Business Initiative
This initiative involves a collection of efforts designed to bolster and support the presence and success of female students and professionals, focusing on supporting the development of pre-college and college women who are interested in or are majoring in business, with an emphasis on leadership development and functional areas where women are underrepresented. Elements include the Women’s Conference and Dinner and the Minerva Summer Program for young women.
Our Leadership
Associate Dean for Culture and Success
James E. King PhD| Miles-Rose professor of Leadership
205-348-8916
How to Give
The students in our programs disproportionately experience financial challenges, which threaten their retention and success. They are also more likely to leave with debt amounts that are a serious drag on their post-college lives. Besides employing some of them as student workers, we help our students through financial difficulties as we can.