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re: Birmingham Southern College may shut down
Posted on 12/18/22 at 10:28 am to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 12/18/22 at 10:28 am to SoFla Tideroller
Most Collège ratings now include job placement rankings and salary of the first 5 or 10 years. If all you are pumping out is liberal arts majors that don’t directly lead to good jobs and you are located somewhere like Bham, your rankings are going to take a drastic beating. I’m not sure how you are going to justify to students to pick you over day much higher ranked and much cheaper Auburn and Bama.
I can personally see going to a small school if the location is great. But as said, it’s fairly simple capitalism in that the location sucks.
I can personally see going to a small school if the location is great. But as said, it’s fairly simple capitalism in that the location sucks.
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Posted on 12/18/22 at 10:33 am to baldona
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Most Collège ratings now include job placement rankings and salary of the first 5 or 10 years. If all you are pumping out is liberal arts majors that don’t directly lead to good jobs and you are located somewhere like Bham, your rankings are going to take a drastic beating. I’m not sure how you are going to justify to students to pick you over day much higher ranked and much cheaper Auburn and Bama.
I can personally see going to a small school if the location is great. But as said, it’s fairly simple capitalism in that the location sucks.
Agreed. How many people in 2022 are willing to spend 30k/year on a school in a ghetto area of Birmingham for a degree that doesn't really set you apart in any way?
This post was edited on 12/18/22 at 10:36 am
Posted on 12/18/22 at 10:35 am to Ramblin Wreck
Sad to see. I flunked out of BSC in the late 80’s. I loved that place but couldn’t balance the partying and studying.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 11:04 am to HubbaBubba
quote:Print the T-Shirts!
SMU is ranked #83 by Forbes.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 11:05 am to Ramblin Wreck
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Birmingham Southern College may shut down
Good.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 11:29 am to imjustafatkid
I wonder if that highlands college, church themed school, in Birmingham would take them over or merge, Birmingham-highlands college ? They seem to have big plans and money. I realize they are a Methodist school but maybe it’s time to change denominations for a Hail Mary 
I mean I’d probably also call Liberty U to see if they wanted a branch or even BYU, who could create BYU-Alabama college. 
I mean I’d probably also call Liberty U to see if they wanted a branch or even BYU, who could create BYU-Alabama college. 
Posted on 12/18/22 at 11:36 am to Ramblin Wreck
It helped give the world Marcy from Married With Children. That has to still mean something.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 11:41 am to jb4
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I wonder if that highlands college, church themed school, in Birmingham would take them over or merge, Birmingham-highlands college ? They seem to have big plans and money. I realize they are a Methodist school but maybe it’s time to change denominations for a Hail Mary
This is actually a pretty good idea. I'm a little familiar with Highlands and they have invested a lot of money in rough neighborhoods such as Woodlawn as part of their ministry. I think they have something like 45,000 members across all their church campuses. I prefer our small church here in Louisiana that has about 150 people, but regardless of how you feel about megachurches, it could work.
This post was edited on 12/18/22 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 12/18/22 at 11:47 am to jb4
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highlands college
That almost certainly require highlands to become sacscoc accredited. I seriously doubt they want that.
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Liberty U
Maybe. But Libertys growth is online not maintaining expensive campuses elsewhere.
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BYU
Not feasible from an accreditation standpoint.
This post was edited on 12/18/22 at 11:48 am
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:11 pm to jb4
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jb4
Would be more likely that UAB buys it.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:15 pm to Ramblin Wreck
They need to relocate. Great school in a shithole part of Bham metro.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:16 pm to Robin Masters
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Great school in a shithole part of Bham metro.
So...relocate out of Birmingham?
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:18 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I'm sad to hear this for sentimental reasons - my dad got his math degree there after WW-II using the GI Bill.
It was great academic institution as late as the 1970s - I worked w/graduates and they generally were in the upper performance quartile.
It was great academic institution as late as the 1970s - I worked w/graduates and they generally were in the upper performance quartile.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:19 pm to titmouse
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That almost certainly require highlands to become sacscoc accredited. I seriously doubt they want that.
An option would be to utilize the existing accreditation status and simply add the Highlands theological classes to the BSC curriculum. They could use it as a partnership and have representatives from the Highlands placed on board of trustees. I like out of the box thinking and believe it is an interesting idea that the poster had.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:19 pm to imjustafatkid
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So...relocate out of Birmingham?
Out of Birmingham proper. They are surrounded by the hood.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:22 pm to Ramblin Wreck
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An option would be to utilize the existing accreditation status and simply add the Highlands theological classes to the BSC curriculum. They could use it as a partnership and have representatives from the Highlands placed on board of trustees. I like out of the box thinking and believe it is an interesting idea that the poster had
That could definitely work. But I don't see how that significantly helps BSC's. Massive money problems.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:26 pm to titmouse
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That could definitely work. But I don't see how that significantly helps BSC's. Massive money problems.
True, it would probably require them to be invaded by Russia for the type of money they need to come in.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:27 pm to imjustafatkid
Not sure why people are cheering the closing of a private college. Seems to me that we should demand the closing of public colleges not private ones. The problem with a lot of those types of schools is many were funded by Christian denominations. The colleges wanted the funding while rejecting faith doctrines of the respective churches. So, get woke , go broke. But, I would much rather have private college succeed rather than paying taxes for someone to get a gender studies degree at a public university while advocating communism.
This post was edited on 12/18/22 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 12/18/22 at 12:44 pm to lsursb
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I would much rather have private college succeed rather than paying taxes for someone to get a gender studies degree at a public university while advocating communism.
Sadly, either way, gender studies and communism are still top priorities at both public and private universities originally founded by Christian denominations.
Posted on 12/18/22 at 1:30 pm to Ramblin Wreck
maybe they should call Steve Jobs widow or Jeff Bezos ex, they have been handing out random donations like Halloween candy. My guess is the state of Alabama will take over the school and run it as the only D3 public school in the state, maybe put it into the U of A system see UNC-Asheville or UVA-wise or just a stand alone like u of montevallo but I would be surprised if it gets mothballed since the school has some value for the state
This post was edited on 12/18/22 at 1:56 pm
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