re: Birmingham Southern College may shut down

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I think it’s a big reason why our universities are now hotbeds for liberal radicalism.

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I can see this on the East Coast and West Coast but legislatures of red states need to finally start nipping this in the bud. Kinda open the doors and see what is going on in their universities. I think University of Texas has started to do this.

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It's ranked #463 by Forbes. If your college is ranked #463, you aren't really college material. You're just putting off getting a job.

Nobody will suffer if it closed its doors

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The Forbes ranking system is very subjective. The academic portion of the Forbes ranking counts for very little of the overall ranking. It is based on how many Rhodes and Fulbright scholars the college produces, and on Research done at the college. These criteria don't work in favor of small colleges (Birmingham Southern only has about 1100 students). The percentage of a college's graduates that are accepted to Law Schools or Med Schools aren't part of the ranking. Birmingham Southern's academic reputation is quite good. But it's in what has become a high crime area now, and they made a disastrous error in how they applied financial aid for years.

Birmingham-Southern is very good academically that isn't the issue.

We can start in Louisiana by shutting down or combining Nichols, Southeastern, Northeastern, at least half of directional schools. In Mississippi delta state, alcorn state, the W, and half of the junior colleges.

These private colleges have been cutting back or closing for years.

Look at the twin cities in Minnesota and all the cut backs or closing in those cities.

Baby boomers helped grow these universities.

Less people having kids less need for an over priced college.

Like newspapers time to let them sink or swim.

If this was a HBC the local, state, and Federal governments would be falling all over themselves to overfund it.

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I think it’s a big reason why our universities are now hotbeds for liberal radicalism.

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You think this just started in the 80s and 90s?

Try the 50s and 60s

My uncle went to college there. He came out a card carrying Communist.

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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.

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I had a bunch of friends go there ab 10-15 years ago and went there quite often. It was always a lot of fun partying on campus. Most of the kids that went there were pretty normal and fun to be around, def not a liberal indoctrination camp these AI bots keeps repeating. RIP BSC