Bidgood Hall
Quick Info
Building # 1031 | Abbreviation: BD
Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration
- Manderson Graduate School of Business
- Academy of Accounting Historians/Garner Center
- The Alabama Business Hall of Fame Gallery
- Alabama Productivity Center
- Alabama Center for Real Estate
- Asa H. Bean Student Services Center
- Career Center Satellite Office
- Center for Business and Economic Research
- Enterprise Integration Laboratory
- W.R. Bennett International Trade Center
Bidgood Hall is the traditional home of the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration and was built in 1928. The Alabama Business Hall of Fame Gallery is located just inside the main entrance and features pictures and memorabilia in an elegant three-room suite. A kiosk which lets students access their schedules, accounts, grades, and unofficial transcripts can also be found in the building.
Bidgood houses 32 classrooms as well as the professional, research, and service centers it also includes multimedia classrooms, two television studios for distance learning, a state-of-the-art e-commerce facility that opened in 2001, and the Special Projects Lab. The Asa. H. Bean Student Services is located on the ground floor along with the Undergraduate Student Lounge. Also located on the ground floor is a vending machine, known as the SUPe Vendor, which offers items that range from pens to flash drives and more. Wireless network support is provided throughout all C&BA buildings.
In 1949 the building, known prior to this time as the “Commerce Building”, was named after Lee Bidgood, the first Dean of the College of Commerce. The university’s 19th president, John M. Gallalee, loved to sit in on the dean’s lectures. Bidgood Hall underwent extensive renovations in January 1994.
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Information collected from The University of Alabama : a guide to the campus by Robert Oliver Mellown (Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1988), and The University of Alabama, a pictorial history by Suzanne Rau Wolfe (University : University of Alabama Press, c1983).