Uab Athletics Foundation

To promote and encourage a continuing interest in and loyalty to the intercollegiate athletic program at the university of birmingham, birmingham, alabama (hereinafter the "university"); to support the staff of the university's department of Athletics in their efforts to coordinate, develop, maintain, and improve a superior intercollegiate Athletics program at the university; to promote, encourage and support the construction, improvement and renovation of first class, high quality athletic facilities on the university's campus and elsewhere as the same may be lawfully located; to encourage alumni and friends of the university to generously support the university and its athletic department by gifts, devices and bequests; to organize and promote one or more funds for the use and benefit of the university's athletic department and this foundation; to support, promote, and encourage the education of university students; to provide and contribute to scholarship funding to the university for the university's student-athletes, both men and women, in all of the university's intercollegiate sports; and to conduct any and all appropriate activities, in accordance with the national collegiate athletic association and conference usa policies on institutional control, in order to accomplish the above objects and purposes.