Published on August 24, 2015
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We are blessed this year, as always, with a remarkable freshman class. One of our entering students, Beth Birchfield of Montgomery, brings with her a zeal for helping the people of Haiti. In her short life, she has already made 18 trips there. Commenting on her most recent visit to Haiti, Beth wrote a few days ago, “I learned to love big because our God is big.”
The world is better because of Beth Birchfield.
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Samford is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Samford is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Samford enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Samford fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second-highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.
