On Friday, The University of Alabama System Board of Trustees approved a groundbreaking plan to establish a School of Leadership and Policy at The University of Alabama, which is on track to begin offering undergraduate and graduate degrees as early as next fall.

Creating a new, dedicated school is a rare step for the University. It’s been decades since a new school was founded by UA that did not live under an existing college.

In Tuscaloosa, it arrives in a space long defined by heavyweight brands: Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, and others, like the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs.

University of Alabama President Dr. Peter Mohler told trustees on Friday the school is intended to be “a nationally recogni

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