Bevill State Community College is a public community college in Sumiton, Alabama . It enrolls 3,986 students and has been accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1994. As of 2009, the college had four campuses and one center. the Fayette Campus , the Hamilton Campus , the Jasper Campus , the Sumiton Campus and the Pickens Center . The college's service area is a seven-county region containing over one-quarter million people.
15-476: The college has an intricate history due to the many mergers it has engaged in over the years. The current legal entity was formed in 1992 as a result of the merger of Walker State Technical College (founded 1966) and Brewer State Junior College. In 1993 the Hamilton Campus of Northwest Alabama Community College (founded 1966) was merged with Bevill and in 1998 UAB/Walker College (founded 1938) completed
30-662: A tripartite government organized under a presidential system . Executive power is vested in the Governor of Alabama , legislative power in the Alabama State Legislature ( bicameral , composed of the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate ), and judicial power in the Judiciary of Alabama . Direct, partisan, secret, and free elections are provided for filling all branches. Even after
45-550: A governor serving two consecutive terms can run again after waiting out the next term. The constitution had no set date for the commencement of a governor's term until 1901, when it was set at the first Monday after the second Tuesday in the January following an election. However, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in 1911 that a governor's term ends at midnight at the end of Monday, and the next governor's term begins
60-712: Is charged with enforcing state laws. There have officially been 54 governors of the state of Alabama; this official numbering skips acting and military governors. The first governor, William Wyatt Bibb , served as the only governor of the Alabama Territory . Five people have served as acting governor, bringing the total number of people serving as governor to 59, spread over 63 distinct terms. Four governors have served multiple non-consecutive terms: Bibb Graves , Jim Folsom , and Fob James each served two, and George Wallace served three non-consecutive periods. Officially, these non-consecutive terms are numbered only with
75-534: The Alabama Community College Conference . In 2017, it was announced that Bevill State would be bringing back athletics for the 2017–18 school year after its previous suspension. It offers different sports on its various campuses. Alabama Governor The governor of Alabama is the head of government of the U.S. state of Alabama . The governor is the head of the executive branch of Alabama's state government and
90-928: The President of the United States before it became a state; he became the first state governor. Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819. It seceded from the Union on January 11, 1861, and was a founding member of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. Following the end of the American Civil War , Alabama during Reconstruction was part of the Third Military District , which exerted some control over governor appointments and elections. Alabama
105-813: The Bevill campus system. Brewer State Junior College was founded in 1969 and named after former- Governor Albert P. Brewer . Today it is known as the Fayette Campus and oversees the Pickens Center. Walker College was founded in 1938 by Dr. Carl Jesse and after an association from 1993 to 1998 with the University of Alabama at Birmingham , became the Jasper Campus of BSCC. The college formerly fielded teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, and softball at some of its various campuses, in
120-508: The State of Alabama is the basic governing document of the U.S. state of Alabama . It was adopted in 2022 and is Alabama's seventh state constitution . Alabama has had seven constitutions to date, all but the current one established via State Conventions: [REDACTED] 1819 (converting Alabama Territory into a State), 1861 ( Secession ), 1865 ( Reconstruction ), 1868 (Reconstruction), 1875 ( ending Reconstruction ), 1901 ( Jim Crow ) and
135-506: The current document, adopted in 2022. Governor Kay Ivey formally proclaimed the new constitution to be in effect on Monday, November 28, 2022, shortly after the state's election results were certified. The current Alabama Constitution is a recompilation of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. The recompilation had five objectives, as follows: The Alabama Constitution, in common with all other state constitutions, defines
150-656: The lieutenant governor are elected at the same time but not on the same ticket. Alabama was a strongly Democratic state before the Civil War, electing only candidates from the Democratic-Republican and Democratic parties. It had two Republican governors following Reconstruction, but after the Democratic Party re-established control, 112 years passed before voters chose another Republican. Constitution of Alabama The Constitution of
165-432: The next day, regardless of if they were sworn in on Monday. The office of lieutenant governor was created in 1868, abolished in 1875, and recreated in 1901. According to the current constitution, should the governor be out of the state for more than 20 days, the lieutenant governor becomes acting governor , and if the office of governor becomes vacant the lieutenant governor ascends to the governorship. The governor and
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#1732783806482180-430: The number of their first term. William D. Jelks also served non-consecutive terms, but his first term was in an acting capacity. The longest-serving governor was George Wallace , who served 16 years over four terms. The shortest term for a non-acting governor was that of Hugh McVay , who served four and a half months after replacing the resigning Clement Comer Clay . Lurleen Wallace , the first wife of George Wallace,
195-515: The recompilation and removal of obsolete, duplicative, and overtly racist provisions, the constitution is still the longest in America, more than three times the length of the Constitution of Texas . And many of the issues which have plagued the 1901 Constitution still apply: mainly the heavy centralization of power at the state level over local issues and a large part of the tax code (both at
210-512: Was readmitted to the Union on July 14, 1868. The first Alabama Constitution , ratified in 1819, provided that a governor be elected every two years, limited to serve no more than 4 out of every 6 years. This limit remained in place until the constitution of 1868, which simply allowed governors to serve terms of two years. The current constitution of 1901 increased terms to four years, but prohibited governors from succeeding themselves. An amendment in 1968 allowed governors to succeed themselves once;
225-427: Was the first woman to serve as governor of Alabama, and the third woman to serve as governor of any state. The current governor is Republican Kay Ivey , who took office on April 10, 2017 following Robert J. Bentley 's resignation amidst a corruption scandal. She is the second female governor of Alabama. Alabama Territory was formed on March 3, 1817, from Mississippi Territory . It had only one governor appointed by
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