LaGrange College opens with 70 students and 3 faculty members Tuition was $10 per term ($282 in today’s money)
The Reverend Robert Paine was LaGrange’s first president. The North Carolina native was also a professor of moral science and belles letters and taught geography and mineralogy. He was assisted by two other professors. The first board of trustees had 50 members, including a Native American, a Choctaw politician and a Cherokee leader. J. D. Malone, of Limestone County, was the first graduate in 1833.
Women are allowed to enroll at State Normal School
31 young women enroll making us the first coeducational teacher-training school in the USA
First Florence State Normal School graduating class includes three women
First women join the faculty
Catalog states that for ten years men and women "have been associated in our halls and classrooms. The experiment has been successful beyond the expectations of its friends and advocates..."
Construction begins on a dormitory for young women
Memorial Amphitheatre is completed honoring the university's veterans
Wendell Gunn is admitted as first African-American student
Football is integrated by Bobby Joe Pride, Gene Stoval, and Leonard Thomas - making Florence State University the first predominantly white university in Alabama to have African-American players
William Weakley is signed to join the basketball team; he does not play any games that season
Barbara Glen integrates the UNA faculty by joining the English Department
First women enroll in ROTC
Mrs. Mary Ella Potts appointed to board of trustees. She is the first woman to serve as a President Pro Tempore of a state institution board of trustees in Alabama
Women's basketball team begins competing under the Associate of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
First female athletic scholarship is awarded (African-American Lillian Goodloe)
Seven-year-old desegregation lawsuit against Alabama colleges and trials goes to trial
Women's soccer team is started
Presidential Mentor's Academy was established
The Center for Women’s Studies was established in 2004. It was originally known as the Women’s Center.
The Office of Diversity & Institutional Equity (ODIE) was established in the Fall of 2008. Dr. Lelon Davidson became its first director.
The Military & Veteran Service Center was established in 2011 by Dr. Wayne Bergeron.
The President’s Diversity Award was established in 2011. It is also known as the UNA Diversity Award and is given annually by the President.
Commissioned a Study for 2018 Campus Climate Diversity Survey Report
Honored Dr. Wendell W. Gunn by naming the Commons Building, the Wendell W, Gunn University Commons
Launched Global Learning Community Pilot
Launched President's Diversity Faculty Fellowship and the first faculty members were hired Fall 2018
Launched and required new workplace Diversity and Inclusion Education and Training for faculty and staff
Commissioned Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Task Force
Launched Black History Month Lecture Series
Approved Black Studies Minor
Appointment of Dr. Wendell W. Gunn to Board of Trustees
Launched One Book program
Launched Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion
Launched new Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Plan
Launched Micro-credential in Spanish for the Clinical Encounter