Associate Dean Awarded Prestigious Mellon Fellowship
Jan. 29, 2026
Michelle R. Eubanks , UNA, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392
FLORENCE, AL – Dr. Cheryl Price, Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences within the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering, has been awarded a prestigious Mellon Fellowship in order to attend the HERS Leadership Institute. The fellowship includes a full stipend to attend the institute on behalf of the University of North Alabama.
“My primary goal (for applying and participating in the Institute) is to hone my leadership skills so I can better serve my school, college, and the university at large,” Dr. Price said. “Over the last three years, I have learned the importance of being able to reach out to colleagues at other universities, and I am looking forward to expanding my network by meeting people working in higher education across the country.”
The HERS Leadership Institute has four prongs that will allow Dr. Price to pursue her goals: self-assessment, institutional knowledge, networking, and application. Participants design a Leadership Project they will implement when they return from the program. The project should result in a change for the university by improving processes and starting a new initiative.
“I am also eager to work on a leadership project that will involve working with faculty and staff from CASE as well as my colleagues from across the university,” she said. “I got into administration because I like solving problems and organizing, and I would like to work on a project that helps streamline processes to allow my colleagues more time to focus on their teaching and research.”
The Mellon Fellowship is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which promotes the arts and humanities. The HERS Mellon Fellowship is only open to faculty from Humanities disciplines. The award is based on leadership potential and applicants’ advocacy of the humanities.
About The University of North Alabama
The University of North Alabama 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; 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, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. UNA Athletics, a renowned collegiate athletics program with seven (7) Division II National Championships, is now a proud member of NCAA Division I as part of the Atlantic Sun and United Athletic conferences. The University of North Alabama 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: una.edu and una.edu/unaworks/.