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Scholarship Support Up Thanks to Successful Year of Giving, UNA Foundation Anticipates End of Shine On, Gold Comprehensive Campaign

Jan. 21, 2026



Michelle R. Eubanks , UNA, at meubanks@una.edu, 256.765.4392

FLORENCE, AL – Scholarship support from endowed scholarships awarded through the University of North Alabama Foundation are on the rise after an outstanding year of fundraising for FY 2024-2025. The total spent from the UNA Foundation endowment for the year that ended Sept. 30, 2025, was $2.245 million.

“These funds were spent on scholarships, student support, faculty support, and program support,” said Kevin Haslam, Vice President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the UNA Foundation. “Our ability to help UNA’s students and faculty, as well as its programs, accomplish their goals and dreams is a result of the people we meet and the relationships we build with them, learning how we, at the UNA Foundation, can support their passion for UNA and for the UNA community.”

Some notable statistics from the UNA Foundation include:

• The amount of scholarship awards available to award from the UNA Endowment for Academic Year 2026-2027 increased by $283,852 from the amount available for Academic Year 2025-2026.

• The total amount spent for all purposes from the UNA Foundation endowment during FY 2025 was $301,930 more than spent during FY 2025.

• There were 18 current-use and 35 endowment scholarship funds opened between Oct. 1, 2023 and Sept. 30, 2025.

With these additional dollars, the University is quickly approaching its $100 million goal as part of the Shine On, Gold comprehensive campaign. The total raised is almost $96 million.

“We have been so blessed to build the relationships with our community – the UNA community, the alumni community, and, of course, the greater Shoals community,” he said. “It has been incredible to watch and be part of connecting others with the University empowering them to give where is most meaningful to them and seeing our students, faculty, and staff accomplishing their goals and dreams because of the generosity of others. This is truly a special place.”

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/.