How UAB's $1B fundraising effort is progressing

Even with the controversy surrounding the end of the football program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the school's $1 billion fundraising campaign still hit a milestone in December. The school's Give Something, Change Everything campaign received a record $16.8 million in donations last December, which brings the total of the public phase to $131 million raised since Oct. 2013. During the silent phase of the campaign, UAB received $424 million and was able to surpass the halfway point…